Timberlake Wertenbaker

Timberlake Wertenbaker (born 1944) is a British playwright and translator who was born in New York City and was raised in France. Her father, Charles Wertenbaker, was a foreign correspondent for Time magazine in London. Her mother, Lael Tucker Wertenbaker was a writer of numerous books, including Death of a Man.

Timberlake attended schools in the U.S.,and France and soon after, she began working as a writer for Time-Life books in London. Later, she taught French in Greece where she became involved with a small theatre company. She then moved back to London and became involved with a number of different theatre companies . She earned the praise of London critics for a number of outstanding plays which were produced throughout the 80's and 90's.

Prizes 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

Works

• 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
• Mephisto by Ariane Mnouchkine (translator), 1986
• Leocadia by Jean Anouilh, (translator) 1987
• Our Country's Good, 1988
• False Admissions; Successful Strategies; La Dispute: Three Plays by Marivaux (translator), 1989
• The Love of the Nightingale, 1989
• The Thebans by Sophocles (translator), 1992
• Three Birds Alighting on a Field, 1992
• The Break of Day, 1995
• After Darwin, 1998
• Filumena by Eduardo de Filippo (translator), 1998
• Dianeira 1999
• The Ash Girl (adaptation of "Cinderella"), 2000
• Credible Witness, 2001
• Galileo's Daughter, 2004
• Divine Intervention, 2006

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

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