# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-stephens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:46:40.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-stephens"
name: "Simon Stephens"
slug: "simon-stephens"
description: "Simon Stephens is a British-Irish playwright, musician and Professor of Scriptwriting at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having taught on the Young Writers' Programme at the Royal Court Theatre for many years, he is now an Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith. He is the inaugural Associate Playwright of Steep Theatre Company, Chicago, where five of his plays, Harper Regan, Motortown, Wastwater, Birdland, and Light Falls had their U.S. premieres. His writing is widely performed throughout Europe and, along with Dennis Kelly and Martin Crimp, he is one of the most performed English-language writers in Germany."
tagline: "British playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_Stephens_as_of_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-02-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.17
  momentum:             15.29027576197388
  historical:           8.784381333333334
  currentAttention:     7.440000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3366953/"
    handle:    "nm3366953"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stephens"
    title: "Simon Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيمون ستيفنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "سيمون ستيفنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stephens"
    title: "Simon Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stephens"
    title: "Simon Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stephens"
    title: "Simon Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stephens"
    title: "Simon Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stephens"
    title: "Simon Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stephens"
    title: "Simon Stephens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3222399"
    title: "Simon Stephens"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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