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Williams was also the primary scriptwriter for the second season – based on Greek myths – of the acclaimed Jim Henson's Storyteller series. Williams' most successful work has been the 2005 TV drama Elizabeth I , being himself nominated for an Emmy Award for his script and winning multiple awards for the film and its star, Helen Mirren .
They're Made Out of Meat (1991), by Terry Bisson; This Is Our Youth (1996), by Kenneth Lonergan; The Time of Your Life (1939), by William Saroyan; To Kill a Mockingbird (2018), by Aaron Sorkin; Torch Song Trilogy (1982), by Harvey Fierstein; The Trip to Bountiful (1953), by Horton Foote; Troubled Island (1936), by Langston Hughes and William ...
Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels A Kiss Before Dying (1953), Rosemary's Baby (1967), The Stepford Wives (1972), This Perfect Day (1970), The Boys from Brazil (1976), and Sliver (1991).
Sir David Rippon Hare FRSL (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director.Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink.
He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays; The New York Times in 1997 referred to him as the "maestro of the short form". [1] Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays, has adapted French 17th and 18th-century classical comedies, and adapted 33 musicals for New York City's Encores! series. [2] [3]
David Adjmi (born 1973) is an American playwright.He is the recipient of a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, [1] a Whiting Award, [2] the inaugural Steinberg Playwright Award, [3] a Bush Artists Fellowship, and the Kesselring Prize for Drama. [4]
In 2000, his compilation book, Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles, included a profile of his mother who was a Ziegfeld Follies girl. [7] Lahr's most recent book, Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows in the US (2015), is a collection of his New Yorker profiles on playwrights and directors, as well as some of his reviews of their work. [19]
Robert Charles Shearman, sometimes credited as Rob Shearman, is an English television, radio, stage play and short story writer. He is known for his World Fantasy Award-winning short stories, as well as his work for Doctor Who, and his association with Jarvis & Ayres Productions (Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres) which has resulted in six plays for BBC Radio 4, broadcast in the station's ...