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David Edgar

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English playwright

United KingdomWritersBorn 1948 · age 78
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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.

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Awards 3

1985Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1982Tony Award for Best Play
1980Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play

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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).

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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living
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Born 1948 · age 78
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