Timberlake Wertenbaker

Timberlake Wertenbaker (born 1951) is a British playwright.

Biography

Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque Country of France near Saint-Jean-de-Luz.^[1] She attended schools in Europe and the US before settling permanently in London. Having been the Royal Court Theatre's writer-in-residence in 1985^[2], she had her most successful play, Our Country's Good, (based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally) performed there in 1988 [1]. She is the author of many plays for the stage and for radio, and has translated works by authors including Jean Anouilh, Racine, Sophocles, and Euripides^[3]

Honours and awards

• 1985 Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award for The Grace of Mary Traverse
• 1988 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for Our Country's Good
• 1988 Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play for Our Country's Good
• 1989 Eileen Anderson Central Television Drama Award for The Love of the Nightingale
• 1990 Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play (New York) Our Country's Good
• 1991 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best West End Play (London) Three Birds Alighting on a Field
• 1992 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Three Birds Alighting on a Field
• 1992 Writers' Guild Award (Best West End Play) Three Birds Alighting on a Field

Work

• This Is No Place for Tallulah Bankhead, 1978
• The Third, 1980
• Second Sentence, 1980
• Case to Answer, 1980
• Breaking Through, 1980
• New Anatomies, 1981
• Inside Out, 1982
• Home Leave, 1982
• Abel’s Sister, 1984
• The Grace of Mary Traverse, 1985
• Our Country's Good, 1988
• The Love of the Nightingale, 1989
• Three Birds Alighting on a Field, 1992
• The Break of Day, 1995
• After Darwin, 1998
• Dianeira 1999
• The Ash Girl (adaptation of "Cinderella"), 2000
• Credible Witness, 2001
• Galileo's Daughter, 2004
• Divine Intervention, 2006
• Jenůfa by Gabriela Preissova (adaptation), 2007
• Arden City (For the National Theatre Connections program) 2008
• The Line, 2009

Translation

• Mephisto by Ariane Mnouchkine (1986)
• Leocadia by Jean Anouilh (1987)
• False Admissions; Successful Strategies; La Dispute: Three Plays by Marivaux (1989)
• The Thebans by Sophocles (1992)
• Filumena by Eduardo de Filippo (1998)
• Hippolytus by Euripides (2009)
• Phedre by Jean Racine (2009)

References

1. ^ http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1250483,00.html
2. ^ The Thebans by Sophocles, Wertenbaker, Faber, 1992 ISBN 9780571167111
3. ^ http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth138

External links

• Timberlake Wertenbaker at the Internet Movie Database
• Entry in The Literary Encyclopedia
• Georgetown Hosts Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker
• Article about translating Mephisto From The Sunday Times (UK) - April 6, 1986
• Biography and critical perspective from the British Council Arts Contemporary Writers website

{Artistic adviser to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]

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