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Jason Charles: Biography and Background

Jason Charles is a London-based novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and poet.

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Poppy Corbett: Biography and Background

Poppy Corbett (born 18 August 1986) is a playwright, director and teacher of creative writing.

Image, prior to 1868, of Joseph Stirling Coyne, credited to Lombard and Co, reproduced at Project Gutenberg

Joseph Stirling Coyne: Biography and Background

Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803–1868) was a humorist and satirist in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.

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Nicholas de Jongh: Biography and Background

Nicholas de Jongh is a British writer, theatre critic and playwright.

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Carol Ann Duffy: Biography and Background

Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright.

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James Wedgwood Drawbell: Biography and Background

James Wedgwood Drawbell (1899–6 February 1979) was a British writer, playwright, and journalist, known in equal measure for his literary works and professional association (of variable closeness)

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Michael J. Ellis: Biography and Background

Michael J Ellis also known as Michael Ellis is a British playwright noted for a series of stage works produced at a time when the representation of black and ethnic minority experience on the Bri

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Gregory Evans (dramatist): Biography and Background

Gregory Evans is a British television scriptwriter, playwright and radio dramatist.

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Lisa Evans (playwright): Biography and Background

Lisa Evans is a British playwright and has been a Royal Literary Fund fellow at several universities.

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Kevin Fegan: Biography and Background

Kevin Fegan (born 1957 in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, UK) is a British-Irish playwright and poet, known for his work in theatre, radio, and poetry.

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Jonathan Gems: Biography and Background

Jonathan Gems (born 1952, in London) is a British playwright and screenwriter mostly known for his work on Mars Attacks!

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Philip Glassborow: Biography and Background

Philip Glassborow is a playwright, lyricist and composer who writes for theatre, radio and television.

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Atiha Sen Gupta: Biography and Background

Atiha Sen-Gupta (born 1988) is a British playwright and screenwriter.

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Christopher Hampton: Biography and Background

Sir Christopher James Hampton (born 26 January 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter, and translator.

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Hannah Doran: Biography and Background

Hannah Doran is a playwright, whose work The Meat Kings!

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Augustus Harris: Biography and Background

Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (18 March 1852 – 22 June 1896) was a British actor, impresario, and dramatist, a dominant figure in the West End theatre of the 1880s and 1890s.

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Catherine Johnson (playwright): Biography and Background

Catherine Johnson (born 14 October 1957) is a British playwright, producing works for stage and television.

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Charles Lamb Kenney: Biography and Background

Charles Lamb Kenney (29 April 1821 – 25 August 1881) was a journalist, dramatist and writer.

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Mike Kenny (writer): Biography and Background

Mike Kenny (born in the Welsh borders, with a Welsh mother) is one of England’s leading writers specialising in young people’s theatre.

Playwright Capt. Edward Knoblock circa 1918

Edward Knoblock: Biography and Background

Edward Knoblock (born Edward Gustavus Knoblauch; 7 April 1874 – 19 July 1945) was a playwright and novelist, originally American and later a naturalised British citizen.

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Charles Knevitt: Biography and Background

Charles Knevitt (10 August 1952 in Dayton, Ohio, USA – 14 March 2016) was a British journalist (parents from the UK), author, broadcaster, curator and playwright, and former Architecture Correspo

Photograph of English stage manager, playwright, and actor, William Lestocq. Appeared in The Sketch on November 3, 1897, p. 82

William Lestocq: Biography and Background

William Lestocq (born Lestock Boileau Wooldridge; 1852 – 16 October 1920) was a British theatre manager, playwright, and actor.

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Marcus Markou: Biography and Background

Marcus Markou is a British film maker, playwright and internet entrepreneur.

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Simon Mendes da Costa: Biography and Background

Simon Mendes da Costa is a British playwright.

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Alasdair Middleton: Biography and Background

Alasdair Middleton is a leading British opera librettist and playwright with librettos commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Opera North and the Berlin Philharmonic among others.

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Henry M. Milner: Biography and Background

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Peter Morgan: Biography and Background

Peter Julian Robin Morgan (born 10 April 1963) is a British playwright and screenwriter.

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Edward Abbott Parry: Biography and Background

Sir Edward Abbott Parry (2 October 1863 – 1 December 1943) was a British judge and dramatist.

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Henry Nevil Payne: Biography and Background

Henry Nevil Payne (died 1710?) was a dramatist and agitator for the Roman Catholic cause in Scotland and England.

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Nick Perry (writer): Biography and Background

Nick Perry is a British playwright and screenwriter.

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Henry Pettitt: Biography and Background

Henry Alfred Pettitt (7 April 1848 – 24 December 1893), was a British actor and dramatist.

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Ben Power: Biography and Background

Ben Power is a British dramaturg, playwright and screenwriter.

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Simon Rae: Biography and Background

Simon Rae is a British poet, broadcaster, biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company.

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Douglas Rintoul: Biography and Background

Douglas Rintoul is a British theatre director and playwright.

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Simon Scardifield: Biography and Background

Simon Scardifield is a British actor and playwright who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and with Philippe Gaulier, after reading Modern Languages at St John's College, Cambridg

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Lumley Skeffington: Biography and Background

Sir Lumley St George Skeffington, 2nd Baronet (23 March 1771 – 10 November 1850) was a British nobleman, fop and playwright.

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David Spencer (playwright): Biography and Background

David Spencer (born 1958) is a British playwright.

Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart, English poet, novelist, playwright, and diplomat

Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart: Biography and Background

Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart, (25 June 1881 – 14 February 1957), known as Sir Robert Vansittart between 1929 and 1941, was a senior British diplomat in the period before and du

Travers Vale (1865–1927). He was born as Solomon Flohm in England, grew up in Australia, and as an adult moved to the US where he worked as a film director. He possibly changed his name to Travers Vale in the 1880s.

Travers Vale: Biography and Background

Travers Edmund Vale (31 January 1865 − 10 January 1927; born Solomon Flohm), was an English-born silent film director, theatre impresario, playwright, and actor.

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Alan Vaughan Williams: Biography and Background

Alan Vaughan Williams (23 May 1930 - 21 September 2026) was a British playwright and theatre director and producer.