A playwright and theatre director, Alan has written numerous plays – his most recent Family Album, seen here in 2022, and in 2023 the enthusiastically received Constant Companions. This year, a revival of his popular 1997 play Things We Do for Love was staged at The Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness and now at the SJT the premiere of his 90th play Show and Tell.
His other work seen throughout the world has won countless awards.
Major successes include: Relatively Speaking, How The Other Half Loves, The Norman Conquests, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval, Absurd Person Singular, Way Upstream and Woman in Mind.
In New York, biennial visits with the SJT company performing his plays for the Brits off Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theatres regularly received excellent reviews.
His best-selling guide to writing and directing written in 2002, The Crafty Art of Playmaking, is still in
print.
Inducted into American Theatre’s Hall of Fame, a recipient of the Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts, he became the first
British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was knighted in 1997 for services to
the theatre.