Timberlake Wertenbaker

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**Timberlake Wertenbaker**
Born:	{{{birth_date}}} New York City
Occupation:	Playwright
Nationality:	British
Genres:	Modern theatre, original works and translations

Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British playwright and translator who was born in New York City and was raised in France. Her father, Charles Wertenbaker, was a foreign correspondent for Time magazine in London. Her mother, Lael Tucker Wertenbaker was a writer of numerous books, including Death of a Man.

Timberlake attended schools in the U.S.,and France and soon after, she began working as a writer for Time-Life books in London. Later, she taught French in Greece where she became involved with a small theatre company. She then moved back to London and became involved with a number of different theatre companies . She earned the praise of London critics for a number of outstanding plays which were produced throughout the 80's and 90's.

[edit] 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 Award 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

[edit] 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 Anouihl, (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