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PRIZES AND AWARDS

1985 Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award ''The Grace of Mary Traverse''

1988 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright ''Our Country's Good''

1988 Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play ''Our Country's Good''

1989 Eileen Anderson Central Television Drama Award ''The Love of the Nightingale''

1990 Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play (New York) ''Our Country's Good''

1991 Critics' Circle Award for Best West End Play (London) ''Three Birds Alighting on a Field''

1992 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize ''Three Birds Alighting on a Field''

1992 Writers' Guild Award (Best West End Play) ''Three Birds Alighting on a Field''

WORKS

''This Is No Place for Tallulah Bankhead'', 1978 .

''The Third'', 1980 .

''Second Sentence'', 1980 .

''Case to Answer'', 1980 .

''Breaking Through'', 1980 .

''New Anatomies'', 1981 .

''Inside Out'', 1982 .

''Home Leave'', 1982 .

''Abel’s Sister'', 1984 .

''The Grace of Mary Traverse'', 1985 .

''Mephisto'' by Ariane Mnouchkine (translator), 1986 .

Five Plays by Jean Anouilh (including ''Leocadio'') translator, 1987 .

''Our Country's Good'', 1988 .

'False Admissions; Successful Strategies; La Dispute: Three Plays by Marivaux'' (translator), 1989 .

''The Love of the Nightingale'', 1989 .

'' The Thebans '' by Sophocles (translator), 1992 .

''Three Birds Alighting on a Field'', 1992 .

''The Break of Day'', 1995 .

''After Darwin'', 1998 .

''Filumena'' by Eduardo de Filippo (translator), 1998 .

''The Ash Girl'' (adaptation of "Cinderella"), 2000 .

''Credible Witness'', 2001 .

EXTERNAL LINKS

Entry in The Literary Encyclopedia

Georgetown Hosts Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker

Article about translating ''Mephisto'' From The Sunday Times (UK) - April 6 1986

Biography and critical perspective from the British Council Arts Contemporary Writers website