* 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.

Playwright Tom Stoppard made a public denunciation, and Brian Sewell ( art critic of the Evening Standard ) has consistently been hostile, as has David Lee, the editor of Jackdaw.

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

He has written many critical books, including A Century of Hero-Worship, The Playwright as Thinker, Bernard Shaw, What Is Theatre ?, The Life of the Drama, Theatre of War, Brecht Commentaries, and Thinking About the Playwright.

Playwright Greenberg has stated that one of the compulsions for creating a baseball play was his complete immersion into the sport in 1999 after following the New York Yankees ' ( then -) record 114-win season the previous year, beginning with David Wells ' perfect game.

Playwright David Lan has been the theatre's artistic director since 2000.

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 ).

Bogart has won two Best Director Obie Awards, one for No Plays No Poetry But Philosophical Reflections Practical Instructions Provocative Opinions and Pointers From a Noted Critic and Playwright ( 1988 ) based on the theories of Bertolt Brecht and the other for Paula Vogel ’ s The Baltimore Waltz ( 1990 ).

Ridley has won both the Evening Standards Most Promising Newcomer to British Film and Most Promising Playwright Awards.

Playwright Mario Fratti had written the book, but the producers and Tune eventually decided his script did not work, and brought in Arthur Kopit in 1981 to write an entirely new book.

* 1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of " committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons " and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

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.

Playwright John Guare became interested in Hampton's story through his friendship with two of his duped hosts — Osborn and Inger Elliott, who were outraged to find " David Poitier " in bed with another man the morning after they let him into their home.

* Bill Naughton — Playwright ; wrote Alfie ( 1963 ), the basis of two film adaptations.

Awards include an Emmy nomination, the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, the AT & T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, the AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, two TCG Extended Collaboration Grants, Aristophanes Award for Best Off-Broadway Comedy, First Place in the Southwest Festival of New Plays, Heideman Finalist for Actors Theatre Louisville, Best of the CATCO Shorts Festival, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellowship, and four Ohio Arts Individual Excellence Awards.

Playwright Anthony Neilson's 1991 work Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper is a fictional account of Kürten's life, is told from the point of view of his defense lawyer.

* American Playwright Tennessee Williams's older sister Rose received a lobotomy which left her incapacitated for life ; the episode is said to have inspired characters and motifs in certain of his works.

* Playwright / Composer Lionel Bart lived the latter part of his life in an apartment on Churchfield Road, citing the area as the closest thing he could find to the community feel of the East London " of old ".

With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the " Playwright of the Midwest ".

I decided to make that weekend all about studying my body issues ”— and went on to include another frequently cited reaction: “ I ’ ve always used Mich as a place to charge my batteries for the rest of the year, planning my life around being there in August and learning my lessons, both fun and hard .” Playwright Carolyn Gage would later give voice to another key appeal motivating campers to return: “ At Michfest, she can experience a degree of safety that is not available to any woman any time anywhere except at the festival.

Buntline presented Cody as a " compendium of cliches ", however this did not stop New York Playwright Frank Meader from using Buntline's novel as the basis of a play about Cody's life in 1872.

Diary of a Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road with Mary Martin and Carol Channing, about production of the play " Legends " ( Dutton )

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

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 2003, North Carolina Playwright Keith Smith wrote a one act musical play entitled " My Name is Johnny Appleseed ", which is presented to school children to show that the true story of John Chapman is just as interesting as the mythical figure, who is shrouded in legend.

* Playwright Daniel Caffrey's play Gregor and the Squonk is loosely based on the tale of J. P. Wentling.

Janice Johnston directed the same play for In Good Company at the Aeolian Hall in October 2006 and in November 2006 “ Country ” travelled to Jakarta, Indonesia to the Women Playwright ’ s International conference.

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 and lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Rabbit Hole.

* In the film Star Trek Generations, the villain Tolian Soran quotes from Schwartz's poem, “ Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day ”, telling Captain Jean-Luc Picard, “ They say time is the fire in which we burn .” Playwright Philip Ridley uses the same line as one of the epigraphs for his 2012 play Shivered.

Playwright Max Sparber's play The Older Gentleman set in rural Nebraska in the early ' 60s, includes a scene in which college students are shown Boys Beware in class.

In 1980 Hughes won the London Theatre Critics Award for ' Most Promising Playwright ' for his play Commitments.

* 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 ".

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

In 1973, Tesich won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright for the play Baba Goya, which is also known under the title Nourish the Beast.

Playwright Horton Foote met actor Robert Duvall at Neighborhood Playhouse when Duvall starred in a 1957 production of Foote's play, The Midnight Caller.

Playwright Terence Rattigan, an intimate companion of his father, dedicated his play The Winslow Boy ( 1946 ) to him.

Playwright John Sable's Multiple O, a play adaptation of The Ethical Slut, opened on May 2, 2008, at the Broom Street Theater.

George Bernard Shaw praised the play saying " Mr. Wilde is to me our only thorough Playwright.

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.