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!
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Erfan Khatibzadeh
Erfan Khatibzadeh is a Researcher, Educator, Dramaturg who lives in Damghan, Iran He has a BA Theater at the University of Tehran, Campus of Fine Arts, faculty of Performing Arts and Music. and is a Member of Iran ASSITEJ.
He is interested in working on interdisciplinary fields
Vicky Ireland
Vicky Ireland, writer for children’s theatre, T.V. and radio.
Co Artistic Director of A Thousand Cranes Theatr
Peter Wynne-Wilson
Peter is a highly experienced writer and director, based in Birmingham and working in Theatre-in-Education and Theatre for Young Audiences for over 35 years. His 40 plus plays include Roy and Heads or Tails fro Big Brum, The Shooky and Princess and Ginger for Birmingham Rep, and The Bridge [with Ko Sun Duck] and Looking for Yoghurt [with Toyoko Nishida and Kim Mijeong] for Hanyong Theatre. He now runs the degree course in Applied Theatre at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Lereko Mfono
Lereko Mfono is a multifaceted writer, performer and facilitator who honed his craft at the National School of the Arts and later studied Applied drama at Wits University-Drama for Life in Johannesburg
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce’s plays Mariachi Girl, Sangre de un Ángel, Señora Tortuga, and the Legend of the Poinsettia are published by Dramatic Publishing. Her most recent play which she co-authored with Maria Rocha, Yana Wana’s Legend of the Bluebonnet, premiered at Dallas Children’s Theater in 2018. She was recently named Director of UTeach Fine Arts, the arts teacher preparation program in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.
Mike Kenny
Mike is one of the UK's leading writers, specialising in theatre for young people and families. He was included in the Independent on Sunday’s list of Top Ten Living UK Playwrights, was the first recipient of The Arts Council of England Children’s Award, and several Writers Guild of GB Awards. The Kinderteaterpreis in Germany, and 3 LA Critics Awards in the US, and was nominated for a prix Moliere in France. His plays are performed regularly throughout the UK and all over the world.
Tomasz Kaczorowski
Tomasz Kaczorowski (born in 1992 in Gdynia) is a Polish playwright and director of the young generation; he studied Theatre Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a Directing at the Puppetry Department of Theatre Academy in Warsaw and he is also a PhD student at the University of Gdansk.
Selloane Mokuku
Selloane Mokuku, AKA Lalu, is an experienced theatre maker, storyteller, academic, writer and performer. She has worked with and for young people internationally, through organisations such as UNICEF and Save the Children UK
Ginni Manning
Ginni Manning is a playwright, theatre maker and writer from Liverpool who co-wrote Dipalo, the ASSITEJ Award winning play, with Lalu Mokuku. She completed the Higher Education Certificate of Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool from 2009-2013 concentrating on Screenwriting and Writing for Performance
Chelsea Woolley
Chelsea Woolley is a Canadian playwright, theatre maker, and educator. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Playwright Program, and holds degrees in History and Education from the University of Lethbridge.
Mojalefa Samson Mlambo
Mojalefa Samson Mlambo is a freelancing playwright, director, poet, mentor, tutor, drama facilitator and an actor
Mohammad Boroumand
Documentary film maker, Animation script writer, TV & Theater Writer and Director