# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-edgar
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:19:46.693Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-edgar"
name: "David Edgar"
slug: "david-edgar"
description: "David Edgar is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in the United Kingdom. He was resident playwright at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1974–75 and has been a board member there since 1985. Awarded a Fellowship in Creative Writing at Leeds Polytechnic, he was made a Bicentennial Arts Fellow (US) (1978–79)."
tagline: "English playwright"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.88
  momentum:             11.19170984455958
  historical:           6.364185333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249201/"
    handle:    "nm0249201"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edgar"
    title: "David Edgar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A5%D8%AF%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ديفيد إدغار (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "دیوید ادقار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edgar_(Dramatiker)"
    title: "David Edgar (Dramatiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edgar_(playwright)"
    title: "David Edgar (playwright)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edgar_(drammaturgo)"
    title: "David Edgar (drammaturgo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1174299"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1689629"
    title: "David Edgar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump