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Tom Stoppard
Stoppard, an English dramatist,
was born July 3, 1937. He moved to
England with his parents as a young
boy and there began a career as a
reporter and free-lance journalist. His theatrical
career began with the writing of radio and television plays, but his first international success came with the prizewinning Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), a retelling of Hamlet through the eyes of two marginal characters.
Stoppard's inventiveness has continued through a long series of plays--including The Real Inspector Hound (1968), Travesties (1974), Night and Day (1979), The Real Thing (1982), and In the Native State (1991)--as well as a novel (Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon, 1966), radio and television plays, and screenplays for a number of movies.
The original production of The Real Thing won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 1982. In 1984 it won five Tony awards, including Best Play, and was also honored with the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Mr. Stoppard won the 1998 Academy Award for his screenplay, Shakespeare in Love.
Among his numerous other awards are the John Whiting Award, 7 Evening Standard Awards, New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Prize (Hamburg), Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama desk Award, Golden Globe Award, Writers Guild of America Award and Olivier Award. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in New York on January 31, 2000.
Stoppard¡¦s Work¡G
•A Walk on the Water
•The Dissolution of Dominic Boot
•"M" Is for Moon among Other Things
•The Dog It Was That Died and Other Plays
•The Gamblers
• If You¡¦re Glad I¡¦ll Be Frank
•Tango
• A Separate Peace
•Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
•Albert¡¦s Bridge
•Teeth
• Another Moon Called Earth
•Neutral Ground The Real Inspector Hound
•After Magritte
•Where Are They Now?
•Dogg¡¦s Our Pet
•Jumpers
•Artist Descending a Staircase
• Travesties
•Dirty Linen and New-found-land
•Albert¡¦s Bridge and Other Plays
•Professional Foul
•Night and Day
•Dogg¡¦s Hamlet, Cahoot¡¦s Macbeth On the Razzle
•The Real Thing
•The Love for Three Oranges
•Rough Crossing Squaring the Circle: Poland 1980-81
•Four Plays for Radio
•Dalliance Largo Desolato Brazil
•Hapgood
•The Radio Plays 1964-1983
•Arcadia
•Indian Ink
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