Timberlake Wertenbaker
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| Born: | {{{birth_date}}} New York City |
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| Occupation: | Playwright |
| Nationality: | British |
| Genres: | Modern theatre, original works and translations |
Timberlake Wertenbaker 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.
[edit] 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 Award 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
[edit] 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 Anouihl, (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
[edit] 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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