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Timberlake Wertenbaker is an American born English playwright who was born in New York (External Link

), but grew up in the Basque Country near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France (External Link

). She attended schools in Europe and the US before settling permanently in London. Her breakthrough play, Our Country's Good is an adaptation of a book by Thomas Keneally and was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1988 (External Link

). She is the author of many plays for the stage and for radio, and has translated works by authors including Jean Anouilh, Sophocles, and Euripides (External Link

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

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

Jenůfa by Gabriela Preissova (adaptation), 2007

Arden City (For the National Theatre Connections program) 2007Further Information

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