Are Martin McDonagh and Steve James both examples of British playwrights?
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Martin McDonagh Martin McDonagh ( ; born 26 March 1970) is a British playwright, screenwriter and film director, born and brought up in London to Irish parents. He holds dual British and Irish citizenship. He has been described as one of the most important living playwrights in Ireland.
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Steve James (producer) Steve James (born March 8, 1954) is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including the award-winning "Hoop Dreams" and "Stevie".
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James Greene (actor) James Greene (born 19 May 1931 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an actor who has appeared in numerous plays and series on United Kingdom television over a 40-year period. He has often played lawyers, clergymen, army officers and latterly judges.
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Martin Kiszko Martin Edmund Kiszko (born 9 February 1958) is a British composer, musicologist, librettist and poet. He is best known for his film and television scores.
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Daragh Carville Daragh Carville, born in Armagh in 1969, is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His theatre credits include "Language Roulette" (Bush Theatre, London and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), "Observatory" (Peacock Theatre, Dublin) and "This Other City" (Grand Opera House, Belfast).
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Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon are a British comedy writing team. They were head sketch writers on BBC Radio 4’s "Jo Caulfield Won’t Shut Up" and BBC1′s "Live and Kicking", and also wrote the TV comedy shows "Slightly Filthy" (LWT) and "The Ornate Johnsons’ Edwardian Spectacular" (BBC4). Yet their main work is in the theatre. Their plays include "Spy", "Moonlight over India", "Eurovision", "Seven Studies in Salesmanship","The Opinion Makers", "Those Magnificent Men" and the multiple award-winning "Big Daddy Vs Giant Haystacks".
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David Allen (playwright) David Allen (born 4 January 1936, Birmingham, England) is a British playwright. He is notable for his play "Cheapside", which has been shown at the Warehouse Theatre (in Croydon, South London) and the White Barn Theatre.
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Alan Gilmour (disambiguation) Alan Gilmour is a Scottish-born playwright and librettist.
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001.
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John Retallack John Retallack (born 1950) is a British playwright and director.
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Martin (play) Martin is a play by Alasdair Gray, recorded on 6 January 1972 and broadcast as the last episode of the BBC TV series "The Group". Gray later reworked this material for the chapter "The Proposal" in his novel "Something Leather".
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Iain Mackintosh Iain Mackintosh (born 1937) is a British practitioner of theatre combining four interwoven careers as theatre producer, theatre space designer, curator of theatre painting and architecture exhibitions, and author and lecturer on both modern and eighteenth century theatre. He has campaigned for the retention and restoration of historic theatres as working homes for live performance.
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Duncan Macmillan (playwright) Duncan Macmillan is a British playwright, director and screenwriter.
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Steve James (snooker player) Stephen "Steve" James (born 2 May 1961) is a retired English professional snooker player.
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James Gillan (actor) James Gillan (born James Gillan Paterson) is a Scottish stage actor born in Glasgow, and trained at The Arts Educational Schools in London.
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Philip King (playwright) Philip King (30 October 1904 – 9 February 1979) was an English playwright and actor, born in Yorkshire. He is best known as the author of the farce "See How They Run" (1944). He lived in Brighton and many of his plays were first produced in nearby Worthing. He continued to act throughout his writing career, often appearing in his own plays.
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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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Ray Cooney Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright and actor. His biggest success, "Run for Your Wife" (1983) ran for nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy. He has had 17 of his plays performed there.
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Kieron Barry Kieron Barry is a British playwright.
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Martin Esslin Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24 February 2002) was a Hungarian-born English producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, best known for coining the term "Theatre of the Absurd" in his work of the same name ("Theatre of the Absurd"; 1961). This work has been called "the most influential theatrical text of the 1960s" by some reviewers.
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E. Martin Browne E. Martin Browne (29 January 1900 – 27 April 1980) was a British theatre director, known for his production of twentieth century verse plays. He collaborated for many years with T. S. Eliot and was first producer of many of his plays including "Murder in the Cathedral".
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Field Day Theatre Company The Field Day Theatre Company began as an artistic collaboration between playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea. In 1980, the duo set out to launch a production of Friel's recently completed play, "Translations". They decided to rehearse and premiere the play in Derry with the hope of establishing a major theatre company for Northern Ireland. The production and performance of "Translations" generated a level of excitement and anticipation that unified, if only for a short time, the various factions of a divided community.