# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-ayckbourn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:10:10.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-ayckbourn"
name: "Alan Ayckbourn"
slug: "alan-ayckbourn"
description: "Sir Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific British playwright and director. As of 2025, he has written and produced 91 full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967."
tagline: "English playwright (born 1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Alan_Ayckbourn_P4220001.JPG?width=1200"
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-04-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump