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Playwright Biography from Australia,British and United State.

- Australia

Beejan Land
He was born 14 February 1989 in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia. He is an Australian actor
and award-winning playwright. He graduated high school at Newtown High School of the Performing
Arts.Beejan trained at the prestigious L'cole Internationale de Thtre Jacques Lecoq joining alumni such
as Geoffrey Rush, Julie Taymor, Ariane Mnouchkine, Yazmina Reza and Steven Berkoff. Beejan is also a
graduate of ACTT's Talented Young Actors' Program, National Institute of Dramatic Art Acting and
Playwrighting programs. He also trained at Australian Theatre for Young People. He started his
performing career as a young Magician. Performing at events and parties he quickly began to develop a
name as a Magician. In 1998 he was awarded first place Australian Convention of Magicians competition
in the Walk on Walk off Section. He then began taking after school acting classes at the Australian Theatre
for Young People in 1999. He took classes in Film, Theatre and Voice as well as master classes with some
of Australia's highly sought out industry professionals. He performed in many productions with them
giving him the experience and desire to continue his passions in the field of theatre and film. Mentors
at Australian Theatre for Young People included Nick Enright, Victoria Longley, Kate
Champion and David Berthold. Beejan was asked by the Melbourne Theatre Company to perform in their
main-stage production of The History Boys written by Alan Bennett and directed by Peter Evans. The
production played a sold out season at The Arts Centre. The production featured other Australian actors
such as Matthew Newton, Ashley Zukerman and Ben Geurens.Beejan has performed in stage plays
by William Shakespeare, Michael Gow, David Hare, Bertold Brecht, Debra Oswald, Ned Manning, Cyril
Tourneur, Thomas Middleton, Alfred Jarry, Alex Broun, Mark Ravenhill, Tommy Murphy, Nazm Hikmet
Ran, Frank Marcus, Alan Bennett, Tony Kushner and Jos Rivera.In 2004 he co-starred in The Black
Balloon director Elissa Downs Tropfest short film Summer Angst. He also guest starred in an episode of
the Australian medical drama series All Saints (TV series).
Award and nominations
20032004 Award: Sydney Theatre CompanyYoung Playwright's Award,
category : Best Play
Work : The Arrival
20032004 Award: Sydney Theatre CompanyYoung Playwright's Award

category : Merit award

Work : The Wall

He was born 23 July 1944 to an Albanian-born father and an Australian mother. He attended The
Armidale School in Armidale and the International School of Geneva before graduating from
the University of New South Wales.an Australian playwright and author who wrote 88 works. Buzo's
first play, Norm and Ahmed explored issues of racism and generational envy and hit the headlines
around Australia in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when those involved in productions
in Queensland and Victoria were charged with obscenity for use of the word "fucking." The charges
were eventually quashed by the Attorney-General. Other plays include Rooted, The Front Room
Boys, Macquarie, Tom, Coralie Landsdowne Says No, Martello Towers, Makassar Reef, The
Marginal Farm, Big River, Stingray, Shellcove Road and Pacific Union. There are plays from him such
as : The Revol (1967),The Front Room Boys (Currency Press, 1970),Macquarie (Currency Press,
1971),Batman's Beach-Head (1973),Rooted (Currency Press, 1973).

Awards

- 1972 gold medal from the Australian Literature Society for his history play Macquarie
- 1998 an Alumni Award from the university of new south wales
- 2005 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from UNSW for his contribution to Australian Literature.

British
Sir David Hare

He was born 5 June 1947 is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film 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 written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel of the same name
written by Bernhard Schlink. Hare worked with the Portable Theatre Company from 1968 to 1971.
His first play, Slag. was produced in 1970, the same year in which he married his first wife,
Margaret Matheson; the couple had three children and divorced in 1980. He has several plays
such as The Breath of Life (2002),The Permanent Way (2003),Stuff Happens (2004),The
Vertical Hour (2006),Gethsemane (2008), Berlin (2009),Wall (2009),The Power of Yes (2009).

Awards

1979 BAFTA Award (British Academy of Film and Television) for Best Single Play for Licking
Hitler
1983 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play for Plenty
1985 Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear for Wetherby
1990 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for Racing Demon
1990 London Theatre Critics Award for Best Play for Racing Demon
1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Play for Pravda
Sir Alan Ayckbourn
He was born 12 April 1939 is a prolific English playwright and director. He has written and
produced more than seventy full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between
1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but
four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been
produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company
since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1969. On leaving
school his theatrical career started immediately, with an introduction to Sir Donald Wolfit by his
French master.Ayckbourn joined Wolfit on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as an acting
assistant stage manager (meaning a role that involved both acting and stage management) for
three weeks, with his first role on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are
Lonely by Fritz Hochwlder. In the following year, Ayckbourn appeared in six other plays at the
Connaught Theatre, Worthing and the Thorndyke theatre, Leatherhead. Although Alan
Ayckbourn is best known as a writer, it is said that he only spends 10% of his time writing plays.
Most of the rest of his time is spent directing. Alan Ayckbourn began directing at the Scarborough
Library Theatre in 1961, with a production of Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton.

Awards

1973: Evening Standard Award Best Comedy, for Absurd Person Singular
1974: Evening Standard Award, Best Play, for The Norman Conquests
1977: Evening Standard Award, Best Play, for Just Between Ourselves
1981: Honorary Doctor of Letters degree (Litt.D.) from University of Hull
2008: Induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame
2009: Laurence Olivier Special Award
2009: The Critics' Circle annual award for Distinguished Service to the Arts
2011: Honorary Doctor of Letters degree (Litt.D.) from York St. John University

United State

Marvin Neil Simon

He was born July 4, 1927 is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has written
more than thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his
plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer. He began
writing his own plays beginning with Come Blow Your Horn (1961), which took him three years to
complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successful plays,
Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965), for which he won a Tony Award. It made him
a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway. During 1961, Simon's first
Broadway play, Come Blow Your Horn, ran for 678 performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Simon took three years to write that first play, partly because he was also working on writing
television scripts at the same time. He rewrote the play at least twenty times from beginning to
end."It was the lack of belief in myself. I said, 'This isn't good enough. It's not right. . . It was the
equivalent of three years of college. That play, besides being a "monumental effort" for Simon, was a
turning point in his career: "The theater and I discovered each other.
Awards

1957 Emmy Award for Your Show of Shows

1959 Emmy Award for The Phil Silvers Show

1965 Tony Award for Best Author The Odd Couple

1967 Evening Standard Award Barefoot in the Park

1968 Sam S. Shubert Award Sweet Charity

August Wilson

He as born April 27, 1945 an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The
Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in
a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the
20th century. Wilson knew that he wanted to be a writer, but this created tension with his mother,
who wanted him to become a lawyer. She forced him to leave the family home and he enlisted in
the United States Army for a three-year stint in 1962, but left after one year and went back to
working various odd jobs as a porter, short-order cook, gardener, and dishwasher. Wilson was
married three times. His first marriage was to Brenda Burton from 1969 to 1972. They had one
daughter, Sakina Ansari, born 1970. In 1981 he married Judy Oliver, a social worker; they divorced in
1990. He married again in 1994 and was survived by his third wife, costume designer, Constanza
Romero, whom he met on the set of The Piano Lesson. They had a daughter, Azula Carmen Wilson.
Wilson was also survived by siblings Freda Ellis, Linda Jean Kittel, Donna Conley, Barbara Jean
Wilson, Edwin Kittel and Richard Kittel.

Awards

1985: New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

1986: Whiting Award for Drama

1987: Pulitzer Prize for Drama Fences

1987: Tony Award for Best Play Fences

1987: Outer Critics Circle Award Fences

1987: Artist of the Year by Chicago Tribune