Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British-based playwright, screenplay writer, and translator who has written plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and others.
11 Facts About Timberlake Wertenbaker
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Timberlake Wertenbaker has been described in The Washington Post as "the doyenne of political theatre of the 1980s and 1990s".
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Timberlake Wertenbaker was the resident writer for Shared Experience in 1983 and the Royal Court Theatre from 1984 to 1985.
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Timberlake Wertenbaker was on the Executive Council of the English Stage Company from 1992 to 1997 and on the Executive Committee of PEN from 1998 to 2001.
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Timberlake Wertenbaker was the Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Freud Museum in 2011.
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Timberlake Wertenbaker was the artistic director of New Perspective Theatre Company.
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Currently, Timberlake Wertenbaker is the Chair in Playwriting at the University of East Anglia.
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In 1997, the British Library acquired Timberlake Wertenbaker's archive consisting of manuscripts, correspondence and papers relating to her writings.
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Timberlake Wertenbaker has a home in north London, where she lives with her husband, the writer John Man.
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Timberlake Wertenbaker was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006.
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Timberlake Wertenbaker has written plays for the Royal Court, the RSC and other theatre companies:.