Terry Johnson (dramatist)
British dramatist and director
Terry Johnson (born 20 December 1955) is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. Educated at Birmingham University , he worked as an actor from 1971 to 1975, and has been active as a playwright since the early 1980s.
Johnson's stage work has been produced around the world. He has won nine British Theatre awards including the Olivier Award for Best Comedy 1994 and 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best New Play 1995, two Evening Standard Theatre Awards , the Writers Guild Award for Best Play 1995 and 1996, the Meyer-Whitworth Award 1993 and the John Whiting Award 1991.
He has had many West End productions as director and/or writer including: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Hitchcock Blonde Entertaining Mr Sloane The Graduate Dead Funny , Hysteria Elton John's Glasses and The Memory of Water Royal Court Theatre he directed Dumb Show by Joe Penhall and opened his play Piano/Forte . Johnson won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical for La Cage aux Folles
He has worked with Chicago 's Steppenwolf Theatre , directing John Malkovich in The Libertine (nominated for five Joseph Jefferson Awards including Best Production) and Lost Land , both plays by Stephen Jeffreys .
He has written and directed television drama that has been broadcast worldwide, most recently Not Only But Always Channel 4 , which won five International Award nominations, Best Film at Banff , and a BAFTA for Rhys Ifans .
The film version of his play Insignificance Nicolas Roeg ) was the official British entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985.
Stage work
as playwright
Days Here So Dark Paines Plough , Edinburgh )Insignificance Royal Court Theatre ) (Plays & Players Award Best Play, Evening Standard Award Most Promising Playwright)Cries From The Mammal House Leicester Haymarket /Royal Court)Unsuitable For Adults Bush Theatre )Imagine Drowning Hampstead Theatre )Hysteria Olivier Award Best Comedy 1993)Dead Funny Writers Guild Award Best West End Play 1994, Drama Critics Circle Best Play 1994, Lloyds Private Banking Playwright of the Year 1994 and Time Out Drama Award 1994)London Cuckolds Edward Ravenscroft )(1998, Royal National Theatre , Lyttelton)Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick The Graduate Hitchcock Blonde South Coast Repertory , Costa Mesa, California)Piano/Forte Prism Uncle Vanya Ken (2018, Pleasance Dome)
as director
Rag Doll (Bristol Old Vic )Death of a Salesman York Theatre Royal )Dead Funny (Hampstead, Vaudeville, National Tour, Savoy)Insignificance (Donmar Warehouse )The Libertine (Steppenwolf, Chicago)Cracked (Hampstead Theatre)London Cuckolds (National Theatre, Lyttelton)Elton John's Glasses (Watford and West End)The Memory of Water Cleo, Camping Emmanuelle and Dick (National Theatre)Sparkleshark The Graduate (London, Australia, New York)Hitchcock Blonde (Royal Court, Lyric West End, South Coast Repertory )One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (co-director with Tamara Harvey, Edinburgh & West End)Dumb Show (Royal Court)Rain Man (Apollo)The Duck House UK tour and West End)[ 1] Oh What A Lovely War Prism (Hampstead Theatre)Uncle Vanya La Cage aux Folles Longacre Theatre , New York)End of the Rainbow Belasco Theatre , New York)[ 2]
Television
Films
Ghosts – "Blood And Water" and "The Chemistry Lesson" (BBC TV)99-1 (Zenith/Carlton) co-creator with Barbara Cox The Bite (Warner Sisters/ABC AUS)
Film
References
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Awards for Terry Johnson
1967–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–9999
1960–1975 1976–2000 2001–present
International National Artists Other
