Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright, notable for film and tv work including Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006) and the theatre adaptations of A Prayer for Owen Meany (2002), Royal National Theatre and in America in Washington, Boston, Philadelphia. Elling (2007) opened at the Bush Theatre with John Simm and Jonathan Cecil and transferred to the Trafalgar Studios, later it was produced in Australia and on Broadway. Prick Up Your Ears was produced in 2009 at the Comedy Theatre with Matt Lucas.