Playwrights

Welcome to our directory of playwrights from around the world who are writing for young audiences. Feel free to browse country or name. Know someone that should be on the list? (Including yourself?) Send us the info!

Editors 3/20/17 Editors 3/20/17

Marilyn Anne Campbell

Marilyn Anne Campbell is an Ontario-based writer with a special interest in nature, speculative fiction, humour, and young audiences (not necessarily in the same story). Her stage plays have been workshopped in Toronto and produced in Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Halifax, Chicago, and South Dakota.

Editors 3/2/17 Editors 3/2/17

Lojo Simon

Lojo Simon is a playwright, dramaturg and published writer of prose and poetry.

Editors 3/1/17 Editors 3/1/17

Ilja Tammen

Ilja Tammen studied acting at the theatre school Maastricht where she graduated in 1988. Very soon she began working with Ad deBont a tthe young audience theatre group Wederzijds, from 1990 till 2010.

Editors 11/21/16 Editors 11/21/16

Nourouddini Mohamadou (Cameroon)

omédien, Conteur, Metteur en scène et Animateur d’atelier de théâtre, a été formé à l’atelier théâtre de L’Alliance Franco-camerounaise de L’Adamaoua par José Pliya. IL a également évolué sous la houlette d’Essindi Mindja, Jacobin Yarro (Cameroun), François Pinte (Belgique), Were Were Liking et bien d’autres. Sur scène il à incarné : Cyrano dans Cyrano Bergerac de Edmon Rostan, Docteur Portes dans parenthèse de sang de Sony Labou.T, Hemon dans Antigone de Sophocle… Président Directeur de la Compagnie Danata Theatre fondée en 1999, El Dini a créé et mis en scène : Mémoire d’anophèle de José Pliya, Gagarakoura, Les Aventures de Pica-Pica, kougaladdé (conte théâtralisé), La légende d’une vérité de Willams Sassine, Les Fou illuminés de Vandar Dorsouma.

Editors 11/18/16 Editors 11/18/16

Kristo Šagor

Kristo Šagor is a playwright, director and lecturer. Born in 1976 in Stadtoldendorf, Germany, and raised in Lübeck, he now currently resides in Berlin.

Editors 11/17/16 Editors 11/17/16

Antonio Zuniga

Escritor de mas de 15 obras de teatro para niños y jóvenes en México, su trabajo parte del entornos complicados de sobrevivencia de los jóvenes. Tiene varios premios nacionales e internacionales. Sus obras se presentan constantemente en México y el mundo

Editors 11/17/16 Editors 11/17/16

Rex McGregor

Rex McGregor is a New Zealand writer specializing in comedy theatre and satirical humor. His short plays have been produced on four continents from New York and London to Sydney and Kuala Lumpur. He has a Master of Arts (Hons) in Languages and Literature from the University of Auckland and is currently a senior collections librarian at Auckland Libraries.

Editors 8/9/16 Editors 8/9/16

Deepika Arwind

Deepika Arwind is a theatre-practitioner and writer based in Bangalore. Her work includes Nobody Sleeps Alone (2013-2014) and A Brief History of Your Hair (March 2016). She is acted in several plays with directors such as Anmol Vellani and Preetam Koilpillai.

Editors 12/26/15 Editors 12/26/15

Schulz, Tamara (South Africa)

Tamara Schulz grew up alongside elephants and tall trees in a remote wilderness area in Zambia. She completed her MA in African masquerade performance at Rhodes University, after which she found her way to a mosaic-like career in theatre and education. She has worked as a set and costume designer, a director, educator, lecturer, writer, waitress and fundraiser.

Editors 4/27/15 Editors 4/27/15

Buhbinder, Ariane (France)

Après des études littéraires, musicales et puis de mise en scène à l’INSAS Bruxelles, Ariane Buhbinder n’a cessé d’oeuvrer dans le domaine de la création en théâtre jeunes publics depuis 1983 en Europe et durant 10 ans au Québec.

Editors 4/27/15 Editors 4/27/15

Fourie, Charles (South Africa)

Charles J. Fourie is an accomplished and multi-award winning playwright, scriptwriter, and film and theater director and producer whose works have been staged throughout South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, and also broadcast on various radio and television stations such as SABC, M-NET, KykNET, BBC in the United Kingdom, Radio Sonder Grense, and Maroela Radio.

Editors 2/18/15 Editors 2/18/15

Simone Spiteri

SIMONE SPITERI was born in 1983 and is a playwright, performer and director. She trained for her Diploma in acting at the Malta Drama Centre between 1996 and 2004. She obtained her B.A. (Hons.) in Theatre Studies in 2004 and her M.A. in Theatre Studies in 2011, both at the University of Malta.