Whiting Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 5 (1989) Winner
Timberlake Wertenbaker
ティンバーレイク・ウォーテンバーカー
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- New York City
- Nationality
- British, American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Ciboure, French Basque Country → North London, UK
Career
- Occupations
- Playwright, Librettist, Translator
- Active Years
- 1978-2025
- Affiliations
- Royal Court Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, English Stage Company, PEN, Georgetown University, Freud Museum, University of East Anglia, Royal Society of Literature, RADA
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Nominations
- Six Tony Award nominations (Our Country's Good)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award | The Grace of Mary Traverse | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1988 | Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright | Our Country's Good | — | Evening Standard | 受賞 |
| 1988 | Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play | Our Country's Good | — | Laurence Olivier Awards | 受賞 |
| 1989 | Whiting Award | — | Drama | Whiting Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1990 | Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play | Our Country's Good | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1991 | Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best West End Play | Three Birds Alighting on a Field | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Susan Smith Blackburn Prize | Three Birds Alighting on a Field | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Writers' Guild Award (Best West End Play) | Three Birds Alighting on a Field | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2016 | Writers' Guild Award (Best New Play) | Jefferson's Garden | — | — | 受賞 |
Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award
1985
Work:
The Grace of Mary Traverse
Result:
受賞
Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright
1988
Work:
Our Country's Good
Organization:
Evening Standard
Result:
受賞
Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play
1988
Work:
Our Country's Good
Organization:
Laurence Olivier Awards
Result:
受賞
Whiting Award
1989
Category:
Drama
Organization:
Whiting Foundation
Result:
受賞
Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play
1990
Work:
Our Country's Good
Result:
受賞
Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best West End Play
1991
Work:
Three Birds Alighting on a Field
Result:
受賞
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
1992
Work:
Three Birds Alighting on a Field
Result:
受賞
Writers' Guild Award (Best West End Play)
1992
Work:
Three Birds Alighting on a Field
Result:
受賞
Writers' Guild Award (Best New Play)
2016
Work:
Jefferson's Garden
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Our Country's Good
1988 Modern theatreA play about convicts in colonial Australia staging a Shakespeare play, exploring political oppression and the power of art.
Political oppressionIdentityPower of art
The Love of the Nightingale
1989 Modern theatreModern adaptation of the Greek myth of Philomela and Procne.
GenderViolenceRevenge
Three Birds Alighting on a Field
1991 Modern theatreStory of Britons fascinated by Greece.
Cross-cultureLovePolitics
Jefferson's Garden
2015 Modern theatreExplores American slavery and Thomas Jefferson's legacy.
SlaveryDemocracyMorality
Bibliography
- This Is No Place for Tallulah Bankhead (1978)
- Our Country's Good (1988)
- The Love of the Nightingale (1989)
- Three Birds Alighting on a Field (1991)
- Jefferson's Garden (2015)
Translations by Author
- Several plays by Marivaux
- Sophocles’ Theban Plays
- Euripides’ Hecuba
- Racine Phèdre
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Exploration of political themesEmphasis on ambiguities and questionsDialogue across cultures
- Recurring Motifs
- DisplacementGender rolesIdentity constructionBreaking boundaries
Legacy
Doyenne of political theatre in the 1980s and 1990s, winner of numerous awards. Archive at British Library.
Archives
- British Library
Quotes
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Then the rebel in me goes berserk, and I start pawing at it. I like the area where the questions are, and the ambiguities of political life, rather than the certainties.
Source: The Washington Post (2018)
Trivia
- Born in New York City but raised in Ciboure, French Basque Country.
- Married to writer John Man.