Was Nabil Ayouch initially a playwright like John McKay?
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Nabil Ayouch Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a French-Moroccan television and film director, producer and writer of Moroccan origin.
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John McKay (director) John McKay is a Scottish film and television director. His initial career was as a playwright, before he began his film career by directing the short films "Doom and Gloom" (1996) and "Wet and Dry" (1997).
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Stewart Parker James Stewart Parker (20 October 1941 – 2 November 1988) was a Northern Irish poet and playwright.
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Robert O'Hara Robert O'Hara is an African American playwright and director. He has written "Insurrection: Holding History" and "Bootycandy". "Insurrection" is a time traveling play exploring racial and sexual identity. "Bootycandy" is a series of comedic scenes primarily following the character of Sutter, a gay African American man growing from adolescence to manhood. It won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Drama.
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David McGillivray (screenwriter) David McGillivray (born 7 September 1947 in London) is an actor, producer, playwright, screenwriter and film critic.
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Nabil Maleh Nabil Maleh (September 28, 1936 – February 24, 2016) was a Syrian film director, screenwriter, producer, painter and poet; he is thought to be a father of Syrian cinema.
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David Adjmi David Adjmi is an American playwright. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the inaugural Steinberg Playwright Award, a Bush Artists Fellowship, and the Kesselring Fellowship for Drama.
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Valentin Krasnogorov Valentin Krasnogorov (Russian: Валентин Красногоров, which is a pseudonym, his real name being Valentin Samuilovich Faynberg (Валентин Самуилович Файнберг); born 20 December 1934, Leningrad, now St. Petersburg) is a Russian-Israeli playwright and writer.
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Jonathan Lachlan-Stewart Jonathan Lachlan Stewart is a Canadian actor and playwright.
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John Osborne John James Osborne (Fulham, London, 12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter and actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms. The success of his 1956 play "Look Back in Anger" transformed English theatre.
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Merrill Denison Merrill Denison (23 June 1893 — 13 June 1975) was a Canadian playwright.
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David E. Talbert David E. Talbert (born February 10, 1966) is an American playwright, author, and filmmaker. He is a graduate of Morgan State University and attended the New York University film program.
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Afore Night Come Afore Night Come is a play by the British playwright David Rudkin, first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962. The subject matter of the play meant that any production in a public theatre would probably have been vetoed by the Lord Chamberlain, so the RSC mounted the play at the members-only Arts Theatre. As a result of the widespread critical acclaim that the play received, Rudkin was awarded the "Evening Standard" Drama Award for most promising playwright of 1962.
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Moby Dick—Rehearsed Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a two-act drama by Orson Welles. The play was staged June 16–July 9, 1955, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, in a production directed by Welles. The original cast included Welles, Christopher Lee, Kenneth Williams, Joan Plowright, Patrick McGoohan, Gordon Jackson, Peter Sallis, and Wensley Pithey. The play was published by Samuel French in 1965.
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John Cargill Thompson John Cargill Thompson (1938 - 2000) was a Scottish dramatist specialising in one-person plays. After the performance of his 52nd play, he was described as "Britain's most prolific playwright", surpassing Shakespeare's 37 and Alan Ayckbourn's 51.
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The Nebbishes The Nebbishes was a syndicated comic strip by Herb Gardner, better known today as a playwright and screenwriter.
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Leanna Brodie Leanna Brodie is a Canadian actor and playwright.
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Seán O'Casey Seán O'Casey ( ; Irish: "Seán Ó Cathasaigh" , ] ; born John Casey, 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
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John Fletcher (playwright) John Fletcher (1579–1625) was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivalled Shakespeare's. Though his reputation has been far eclipsed since, Fletcher remains an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration.
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Tony Connor John Anthony Connor (born 1930) is an English poet and playwright.
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John Retallack John Retallack (born 1950) is a British playwright and director.
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Michael Chiang Michael Chiang (born 27 October 1955 in Muar, Malaysia) is a prolific playwright and screenwriter in Singapore. He is known as "Singapore’s most famous and successful playwright".