Stephen Wakelam
Stephen Wakelam is an English writer and playwright born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.[1] After Cambridge University, he was an English Teacher and Head of Department in South Yorkshire until he became a full-time writer in 1976.[1] He was Young Writers' Tutor at the Royal Court Theatre from 1981-1984 and then tutored young playwrights at the National Theatre Studio in the 1990s.[1] He has written over forty performed plays, at first mainly in television then primarily on radio.[1] His subjects are almost exclusively biographical, covering a broad range of interests. Wakelam was The Royal Literary Society Writer in Residence at Universities in Leeds and Kent, 2009-12.[1] From January 2015 he is Writer in Residence at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham.[1]
Selected works
- The Pattern of Painful Adventures
- Gaskin
- Coppers
- Angel Voices
- Circles of Deceit
- Deadlines
- Two Men from Delft
- Adulteries of a Provincial Wife
- Answered Prayers
- Death at the Bed End
- Punters
- Hard Knocks
- Brother to the Ox
- Selling Immortality
- The Finding
- The Good Samaritan
- To the Camp and Back
- Miss A and Miss M
- Letting the Birds Go Free
- Rainy Day
- Other Women
- Triangle at Rhodes
- Silver Lining
- Tea Leaf on the Roof
- The Fox
- Grassroots
- Released
- Time Passing
- What I Think of my Husband
- A Dose of Fame
- Living With Princes, on the life of Montaigne (2011)