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Aeschylus biography: 525 - Aeschylus was born in Eleusis. 498 - Able to write his first play. 490 - Took part in the Battle of Marathon. 480 - Fought at the Battle of Salamis which become the subject of his play "The Persians". 472 - Written the play "The Persians". 467 - Wri ...
Edward Franklin III Albee biography: 1928 - Albee was born in Washington, DC on March 12, 1928. 1934 - Wrote his first poem at the age of six years old. 1940-1942 - Attended Lawrenceville in Princeton, New Jersey. 1942-1944 - Attended Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania. 1946-1947 - Attended Trinity Colleg ...
Nissim Aloni biography: 1926 - Aloni was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. 1946 - Wrote for the weekly newspaper Ba'Machane. 1948 - Joined the army and fought the Arab-Israeli War. 1949 - After his military service, Nissim Aloni was appointed to the editorial board of the periodical B'Ayin and became the literary e ...
Alusio Jorge Andrade Franco biography: 1922 - Born on April 21st in Barretos, Brazil. Alusio Jorge Andrade Franco was one of the most powerful playwrights within the wave of theatrical renewal that began in Brazil.1954 - Alusio Jorge Andrade Franco staged 'O faqueiro de prata' (“The Silver Cutlery”) and 'O telescópio' ...
Sir Alan Ayckbourn biography: 1939 - Born on the 12th of April in Hampstead, London.1957 - Married his first wife Christine Roland, together having two sons, Steven and Philip. - Employed by the director Stephen Joseph as an acting stage manager (a stage manager with acting roles) at the Libr ...
Peter Barnes biography: 1931 - Born in Bow, London on January 10, 1931. 1951 - Attended Marling School in Stroud, Gloucestershire. 1968 - Achieved fame with his baroque comedy, The Ruling Class, which debuted at the Nottingham Playhouse. 1969 - Portrayed Da Vinci being prematurely declared dead in the play, ...
Philip Sr Barry biography: 1896 - Philip Barry was born 18th of June. 1929 - Barry wrote plays "Holiday". 1939 - Barry most famous work is The Philadelphia Story. 1949 - Philip Barry died 3rd of December in New York City. ...
Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht
Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht biography: 1898 - Born on February 10th in Augsburg, Bavaria. German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer, one of the most prominent figures in the 20th-century theatre.1914 - Brecht began to write poetry as a boy, and had his first poems published.1917 - Brecht enrolled as a medical student at the Ludwig ...
Alice Childress biography: 1916 - Born on October 12th in Charleston, South Carolina. African-American playwright, novelist, and actress, known for her realistic stories about the enduring optimism of black Americans.1925 - Her parents separated when Alice was 9, and Alice Childress moved to Harlem to live with her maternal g ...
Joseph Brant biography: 1742 – Joseph Brant was born this year in Ohio Country on the banks of the Cuyahoga River near present-day Akron, Ohio. 1753 – His mother remarried on 9th day of September this year in Fort Hunter (Church of England) a widower named Brant Canagaraduncka, who was a sachem of the tri ...