* Playwright Alan Bennett has lived in Gloucester Crescent for the last forty years.

Playwright Patrick Marber, whose early collaborations with Coogan included The Day Today and being the principal writer of both radio and TV versions of Knowing Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partridge, has also been working on the script, but the pair put their plans on hold following the London bombings, for fear the screenplay would appear in bad taste.

* Alan Jay Lerner ** ( 1918-1986 ) Composer, Playwright (** He was cremated here and his ashes given to family.

* Mark Alan Bedell, Playwright, Director, Stunt Coordinator, Fight Director

* Playwright Charles Bennett was born in Shoreham-by-sea in 1899.

* 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England ( date of actual birth is unknown ).

" Playwright Arthur Miller commented that Muni " was pursued by a fear of failure.

Playwright Charles MacArthur, co-author of the play The Front Page was a former City Press reporter ; several of the characters in the play were based on City Press personalities, notably the skittish managing editor Larry Mulay.

In 2010 The Playwright, a collaboration with Daren White, was published.

" Playwright Terrence McNally, a gay man, received death threats when it was played in the United States.

Actress / Playwright / lyricist Gretchen Kiger-Cryer, mother of actor Jon Cryer, was born and raised in Dunreith.

* Playwright Judy Upton was born in Shoreham-by-Sea in 1966 and has written several plays associated with Brighton Beach.

Playwright Jean Racine was a product of Port-Royal education.

Her play Comfort me with Apples won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award in 2005, and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

) Playwright Gardner, however, actually preferred Selleck to Robards in the part, and even said that Selleck was the way he had always envisioned Murray.

Playwright Àngel Guimerà was even nominated a record 21 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won, due to controversy about the political significance of the gesture.

* Playwright and author Terence Frisby of the 1960s play and movie There's a Girl in My Soup was born in New Cross in 1932 but spent the majority of his childhood in Welling.

Playwright A. Stein who in his Last Parade play used several of Vysotsky ’ s songs, was chastised by a Ministry of Culture official for " providing a tribune for this anti-Soviet scum ".

Playwright Eric Coble's 2004 stage adaptation was broadcast on 16 November 2007 on WCPN 90. 3 FM in Cleveland.

Playwright, Westminster Parliament member, and son of Thomas, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was born on this street at number 12 in 1751 ; Brinsley Sheridan's works include The Critics and A School for Scandal.

Martin and Tichenor's second book, " Reduced Shakespeare: The Attention Impaired Reader's Guide to the World's Best Playwright ( abridged )" was published by Hyperion in 2006.

Odets was the subject of a critically acclaimed biography by psychoanalyst Margaret Brenman-Gibson, wife of playwright William Gibson: Clifford Odets – American Playwright – The Years from 1906 – 1940.

Playwright Green, however, was not happy with the more hopeful, upbeat ending that the Group had imposed on his brooding work.

Playwright William Goodhart was commissioned to write the screenplay, titled The Heretic, and based it around the theories of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( the Jesuit paleontologist / archaeologist who inspired the character of Father Merrin when Blatty wrote The Exorcist ).

" Playwright Arthur Miller said " the Group Theatre was unique and probably will never be repeated.

Playwright and Poet laureate # British Poets Laureate | Poet Laureate Colley Cibber, the first actor-managerIn particular, it was an alternative to the pantomime and special-effects dominated stages, and it presented opposition ( Tory party ) satire.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw was impressed with his acting, casting him in the first production of Man and Superman, and subsequently in five more of his plays.

From 2007 to 2010, he was Lee Playwright in Residence at University of Alberta.

The term playwright appears to have been coined by Ben Jonson in his Epigram 49, To Playwright, as an insult, to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

In 2007, he produced the play, Shakespeare's Will by Canadian Playwright Vern Thiessen.

Playwright Hugh Leonard said: " I am not a member by choice.

*" Films by Harold Pinter: Accident 1966 " – At HaroldPinter. org: The Official Website of the International Playwright Harold Pinter.

In 1705, Chikamatsu became a " Staff Playwright " as announced by early editions of The Mirror of Craftsmen of the Emperor Yōmei.

American Playwright Ken Ludwig wrote a play inspired by the details of Twelfth Night ; called Leading Ladies.

National Public Radio called Mee the " Public-Domain Playwright " in 2000 and credited him with touching " a raw cultural nerve " by making his work freely available.

Playwright and novelist Eliza Haywood, by George Vertue, 1725.

*" Films by Harold Pinter: The Servant 1963 " at HaroldPinter. org – The Official Website of the International Playwright Harold Pinter

Playwright Terrence McNally, a gay man, received death threats when it was played in the U. S. Its production in New York City was canceled then reinstated, finally opening on 13 October 1998, directed by Joe Mantello.

* Palestinian-Born Playwright Offers Insight and Hope for the Peace in the Middle East ( September 9, 2003 )-Article on Saleem by Michael Austin.

* Playwright Larry Shue's 1983 comedy The Foreigner revolves around Charlie, a shy Englishman, and his accidental discovery of a plot by local Klansmen to appropriate a young woman's inheritance money to fund their endeavors.

Playwright John Sable chose Women on Top ( another book by Nancy Friday ) as the play's title largely due to its more provocative connotation.

The theatre company strives to be integral part of the cultural life of the city, and has sought to develop new writing through its biennial Corcadorca Playwright Award, and by commissioning new work from more established writers (" Disco Pigs ", Enda Walsh, and " Bruen's Twist ", Eamonn Sweeney ).

Playwright Matthew Hancock is the author of several stage adaptations, including Window, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami, and The Body Artist, taken from the novella by Don DeLillo.

Playwright Tom Stoppard used this phrase as the title of a 1981 farce, On the Razzle, which he adapted from an earlier play by Johann Nestroy.