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List of authors (in alphabetical order)

Click on a name to see a list of plays by that author that have been produced at the Loft.

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A

Marcel Achard
Rodney Ackland
Douglas Adams
Richard Addinsell
Edward Albee
Peter Albery
Mike Alfreds
Ted Allan
Paul Allen
Robert Anderson
Jean Anouilh
Danny Apolinar
Maya Arad Yasur
Aleksei Arbuzov
William Archibald
Jane Arden
John Arden
Robert Ardrey
Harold Arlen
Anthony Armstrong
Howard Ashman
Jane Austen
Alan Ayckbourn

B

Enid Bagnold
Allan Baker
Elizabeth Baker
Kay Bannerman
Patrick Barlow
J. M. Barrie
Lionel Bart
Mike Bartlett
John Barton
H. E. Bates
L. Frank Baum
Clifford Bax
Samuel Beckett
J. J. Bell
Alan Bennett
David Bennett
Steven Berkoff
Jean-Jacques Bernard
Tristan Bernays
Leonard Bernstein
Laura Berridge
Ugo Betti
Neil Bevan
Madeleine Bingham
Laurence Binton
John Bishop
Kitty Black
Peter Blackmore
Alan Blaikley
Alan Bleasdale
Eric Bogosian
Robert Bolt
Guy Bolton
Denis Bond
Dion Boucicault
John Bowen
Muriel Box
Sydney Box
Chris Boyland
Helen Brady
Melvyn Bragg
J Brandon-Thomas
Bertolt Brecht
Howard Brenton
Leslie Bricusse
James Bridie
Stephen Briggs
Harold Brighouse
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Harold Brooke
Jason Robert Brown
Wynyard Browne
Richard Bryce
John Buchan
Moira Buffini
Anthony Burgess
Patricia Burke Brogan
Abe Burrows
John Burrows
Brian J. Burton
Jez Butterworth
Georg Büchner

C

George Calderon
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Marc Camoletti
Denis Cannan
Gilbert Cannan
Mark Carey
Marina Carr
Lewis Carroll
Paul Vincent Carroll
Jim Cartwright
Falkland Cary
Falkland L. Cary
Harold Chapin
John Chapman
Moie Charles
Mary Chase
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anton Chekhov
Charles Chilton
Agatha Christie
Campbell Christie
Dorothy Christie
Caryl Churchill
Brian Clark
T. E. B. Clarke
John Clements
Peter Coe
Peter Coke
Carlo Collodi
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
William Congreve
Mabel Constanduros
Peter Cook
Ray Cooney
Giles Cooper
Simon Corble
Noël Coward
Constance Cox
David Croft
A. J. Cronin
Beverley Cross
Russel Crouse
Alan Cullen

D

Charles Dance
Clemence Dane
Joe Darion
Andrew Davies
Sue Davies
April De Angelis
Harold Dearden
Denise Deegan
R. F. Delderfield
Lynne Dexter
Charles Dickens
John Dighton
Nobby Dimon
William Dinner
Roy Donoghue
Ariel Dorfman
Mary Dormer Harris
Felicity Douglas
William Douglas-Home
John Drinkwater
Donald Driver
Daphne du Maurier
Ashley Dukes
Charles Dyer
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

E

Fred Ebb
David Edgar
Helen Edmundson
George Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Scott Ellis
Vivian Ellis
Ben Elton
Kevin Elyot
Chris England
Nikolai Erdman
Euripides

F

J. B. Fagan
Robert Fagles
William Fairchild
M. J. Farrell
William Feaver
Terence Feely
Frederick Fenn
C. B. Fernald
Georges Feydeau
Henry Fielding
Tim Firth
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Martin Flavin
James Elroy Flecker
David Fletcher
Dario Fo
Alistair Foot
J. O. Francis
Michael Frayn
Bernard Frechtman
Brian Friel
Terence Frisby
John Leslie Frith
Christopher Fry
Athol Fugard
George Furth

G

John Galsworthy
Deborah Gearing
Pam Gems
Jean Genet
Siegfried Geyer
Harry Gibson
William Gibson
Val Gielgud
Bernard Gilbert
Peter Gill
Rebecca Gilman
Benjamin F. Glazer
Sean Glock
John Godber
Augustus Goetz
Ruth Goetz
Nikolai Gogol
Carlo Goldini
James Goldman
Oliver Goldsmith
Howard Goodall
Francis Goodhand
Frances Goodrich
Bernard Goss
Lucy Gough
Philip Goulding
Ronald Gow
Harry Graham
Kenneth Grahame
Muriel Grant
Harley Granville Barker
Helen Granville Barker
Nicholas Stuart Gray
Simon Gray
Angela Green
Lady Gregory
Trevor Griffiths
Tony Grounds

H

Albert Hackett
David Haig
Lee Hall
Willis Hall
David Halliwell
Chris Hamel-Cooke
Patrick Hamilton
Christopher Hampton
David Hankins
Paul Hansell
Pamela Hansford Johnson
E. Y. Harburg
Mike Harding
Roger Harding
David Hare
Robert Harling
Richard Harris
Moss Hart
H. F. G. Harvey
Jonathan Harvey
Ronald Harwood
Ian Hay
C. H. Hazlewood
The Heather Brothers
Lillian Hellman
Mark Herman
Hal Hester
Keith Higgins
Patricia Highsmith
Lucienne Hill
Alfred Hitchcock
John Hodge
Andrew Hodges
Kenneth Horne
Anthony Horowitz
Stanley Houghton
Laurence Housman
Ken Howard
S. I. Hsuing
Ron Hutchinson

I

Henrik Ibsen
William Inge
Debbie Isitt

J

Barry Jackson
Henry James
Gertrude Jennings
Philip Johnson
Terry Johnson
Ben Jonson
Peter Joucla

K

John Kander
Garson Kanin
George Kaufman
John Donald Kelly
Tom Kempinski
Jean Kerr
Joseph Kesselring
Anthony Kimmins
Dawn King
Denis King
Philip King
Stephen King
James Kirkup
Lucy Kirkwood
Frederick Knott
Milan Kundera
Hanif Kureishi

L

James Lapine
Jonathan Larson
Arthur Laurents
James Laver
Bryony Lavery
Jerome Lawrence
Nick Le Mesurier
Bert Lee
Ken Lee
Laurie Lee
Robert E. Lee
Mike Leigh
Mitch Leigh
Hugh Leonard
Ira Levin
Ben W. Levy
Howard Lindsay
Joan Littlewood
Jeremy Lloyd
William J. Locke
Frank Loesser
John Logan
Frederick Lonsdale
Federico Garcia Lorca
Peter Luke
Geoffrey Lumsden

M

Joan MacAlpine
Pauline Macaulay
Stephen MacDonald
Roger MacDougall
Bill MacIlwraith
Walter Macken
Margaret MacNamara
Claude Magnier
Miles Malleson
David Mamet
Patrick Marber
Frank Marcus
Donald Margulies
Christopher Marlowe
Anthony Marriott
Stella Martin Currey
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
John Masefield
Joe Masteroff
Harold Matthews
Robin Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
Marcelle Maurette
Esther McCracken
Arthur McCrae
Martin McDonagh
David McGillivray
Frank McGuinness
Shaun McKenna
Geraldine McNulty
Conor McPherson
Alan Melville
Alan Menken
David Mercer
Thomas Middleton
Bernard Miles
Arthur Miller
Jonathan Miller
A. A. Milne
Roger Milner
Anthony Minghella
Francis Minshull
Molière
Ferenc Molnar
Dudley Moore
Simon Moore
Abi Morgan
Charles Morgan
Diana Morgan
Robert Morley
Colin Morris
Elizabeth Morris
T. B. Morris
John Mortimer
William Morum
Chloe Moss
C. K. Munro
Iris Murdoch
Joanna Murray-Smith
Thomas Muschamp

N

Phyllis Nagy
Bill Naughton
Peter Nichols
Nora Nicholson
Ariadne Nicolaeff

O

Sean O’Casey
Chris O’Connell
Tom O’Connor
Fergal O’Mahony
Mary O’Malley
Andre Obey
Jacques Offenbach
Brian Olver
Joe Orton
John Osborne
Wilfred Owen

P

Mary Pakington
James Parish
Louis N. Parker
Nick Payne
John Perry
Roland Pertwee
Jonathan Petherbridge
Arthur Wing Pinero
Harold Pinter
Luigi Pirandello
Stephen Poliakoff
Olive Popplewell
Cole Porter
Dennis Potter
Ben Power
Ross Power
Terry Pratchett
Jay Presson Allen
J. B. Priestley
Michael Provins
Manuel Puig

Q

Peter Quilter
Joaquin Alvarez Quintero
Serafin Quintero

R

Gerry Raffles
Nina Raine
Franca Rame
Ayn Rand
Samson Raphaelson
Terence Rattigan
Mark Ravenhill
Joyce Rayburn
Michael Rayne
R Readett
Henry Reed
Dorothy Reynolds
Yasmina Reza
Philip Ridley
Lennox Robinson
Frederick Rolfe
Jules Romains
James Roose-Evans
George Ross
Damon Runyon
Willy Russell
Royce Ryton

S

Alfred Sangster
Jean-Paul Sartre
Steven Sater
Geoff Saunders
James Saunders
Gerald Savory
Dorothy L. Sayers
Friedrich Schiller
Stephen Schwartz
Darren Scott
Eugene Scribe
Anthony Shaffer
Peter Shaffer
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Duncan Sheik
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
R. C. Sherriff
Neil Simon
Doreen Simpson
Campbell Singer
Rosemary Anne Sisson
Julian Slade
Francis Sladen-Smith
Arthur Smith
Dodie Smith
Max Smith
Stephen Sondheim
Sophocles
Hugh Sorrill
Muriel Spark
Stephen Spender
Bella Spewack
Sam Spewack
Edna St Vincent Millay
William Stanton
Shelagh Stephenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Tom Stoppard
David Storey
Lesley Storm
Mike Stott
August Strindberg
Susan Stroman
Jule Styne
James Suckling
Alfred Sutro
John Sutro
Jessica Swale
Jo Swerling
J. M. Synge

T

David Tall
Andrew Taylor
Don Taylor
Polly Teale
John-Michael Tebelak
Peter Tegel
Peter Terson
Brandon Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Gwyn Thomas
Robert Thomas
David Thompson
J. Lee Thompson
Mary Thompson
A. A. Thomson
Jane Thornton
Juliette Towhidi
Sue Townsend
Barbara Toy
Ben Travers
Siegfried Trebitsch
David Tristram
Mark Troy
Joseph Tunbridge
David Turner
Prudence Turner

U

V

Martin Vale
John Van Druten
Various

W

Jack Waller
Dale Wasserman
Keith Waterhouse
Kath Waters
Steve Waters
Peter Watts
Frank Webb
John Webster
Frank Wedekind
Ros Wehner
Kurt Weill
Irvine Welsh
Timberlake Wertenbaker
R. P. Weston
Hugh Wheeler
Peter Whelan
Hugh Whitemore
Amanda Whittington
Alan Wijgerden
Oscar Wilde
Thornton Wilder
John Willard
Clifford Williams
Emlyn Williams
Hugh Williams
Margaret Williams
Tennessee Williams
Arthur Wilmurt
John Wilson
Josephine Wilson
Sandy Wilson
David Wood
John Christopher Wood
Mrs Henry Wood
Nicholas Wright
William Wycherley

Y

Z

Walter Zerlin Jr.
Paul Zindel
Emile Zola
Eleanor Zonik