TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER

'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.

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Prizes and awards

Works

External links

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

★ Hecuba, (translator), 1994
''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
The Love of the Nightingale (opera libretto), 2007

External links

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★ 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