Alan Ayckbourn
Playwright, Author
1939 –
Who is Alan Ayckbourn?
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, CBE is a prolific English playwright. 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 1967.
Major successes include Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests trilogy, Bedroom Farce, Just Between Ourselves, A Chorus of Disapproval, Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business, Man Of The Moment, House & Garden and Private Fears in Public Places. His plays have won numerous awards, including seven London Evening Standard Awards. They have been translated into over 35 languages and are performed on stage and television throughout the world. Ten of his plays have been staged on Broadway, attracting two Tony nominations, and one Tony award.
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- Born
- Apr 12, 1939
Hampstead - Also known as
- Sir Alan Ayckbourn
- Peter Caulfield
- Roland Allen
- Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE
- Sir Alan Ayckbourn, CBE
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Christine Roland
(1957 - 1997) - Heather Stoney
(1997 - )
- Christine Roland
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Haileybury and Imperial Service College
- Lived in
- Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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