Biography of Timberlake Wertenbaker

Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays include New Anatomies (ICA, London, 1982), Abel's Sister (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, 1984), The Grace of Mary Traverse (Royal Court, London), which won the Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award in 1985, Our Country's Good (Royal Court, London, and Broadway), winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988 and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play in 1991, The Love of the Nightingale (RSC's Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon), which won the 1989 Eileen Anderson Central TV Drama Award, Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Royal Court, London), which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Writers' Guild Award and London Critics' Circle Award in 1992, The Break of Day (Out of Joint production, Royal Court, London, and touring, in 1995), After Darwin (Hampstead Theatre, London, 1998), The Ash Girl (Birmingham Rep, 2000) and Credible Witness (Royal Court, London, 2001). She has written the screenplay of The Children, based on the novel by Edith Wharton, and a BBC2 film entitled Do Not Disturb. Translations include Marivaux's La Dispute, Jean Anouilh's Leocadia, Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande for BBC Radio, Ariane Mnouchkine's Mephisto, adapted for the RSC in 1986, Sophocles's The Theban Plays (RSC, London and Stratford, 1991), Euripides' Hecuba (ACT, San Francisco, 1995; BBC Radio 3, 2001), Eduardo de Filippo's Filumena (Peter Hall Company at the Piccadilly Theatre, 1998) and Pirandello's Come tu mi vuoi. Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays are published by Faber in its Contemporary Classics series.