Stephen Jeffreys (born 1950) is a British playwright.
His plays include Like Dolls or Angels (1977) (Sunday Times Playwriting Award at the National Student Drama Festival); Carmen 1936 (Edinburgh Fringe Festival Fringe First in 1984); Valued Friends (1990, Hampstead Theatre); The Clink (1990); The Libertine (1994) - also a screenplay filmed with Johnny Depp; A Going Concern (1993); an adaptation of Richard Brome's play, A Jovial Crew (1992); I Just Stopped By to See The Man (2000); Interruptions (2001); and Lost Land (2005).[1] (2008) The Convict's Opera, a reworking of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, jointly commissioned by Out of Joint theatre company and Sydney Theatre Company.[2][3]. Backbeat (2011, Duke of York's Theatre, London) (Co-written with Iain Softley)[4].