Sir Alan Ayckbourn

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Directors: Theatre, Writers: Playwrights

Alan Ayckbourn is one of the most widely performed living English language playwrights and a highly regarded theatre director. He is an Olivier, Tony and Moliere Award winning writer who has written 74 full length plays, more than half of which have gone on to the West End. His contribution to theatre has been recognised with both the Olivier Special Award and a Special Tony Award.

He has directed more than 300 plays, including the West End premieres of the majority of his writing, and he has also run his own company at the National Theatre. Between 1972 and 2009, he was the Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, where the majority of his work has and continues to be premiered.

He is the holder of a number of honorary degrees, he is also the recipient of a Montblanc de la Culture Award for Europe and a Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence and was the 1992 Cameron McIntosh Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. A Fellow of the RSA, he was appointed a CBE in 1987 and in 1997 he was knighted for services to the theatre.