Alan ayckbourn brief biography of prophets

This is the officially approved 2024 long biography for Alan Ayckbourn.

Alan ayckbourn net worth

Alan ayckbourn net worth

This article by Alan Ayckbourn's Archivist, Simon Murgatroyd, was published in the programme for the world premiere of Better Off Dead at the Stephen Joseph.

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Time Of My Life is a play by Alan Ayckbourn.

On 12 April, award-winning British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn celebrates his 70th birthday.

A short biography suitable for use in programmes is also available here. This article is available to reproduce providing the author and this website are credited.

Alan Ayckbourn is one of the world’s most popular and prolific professional playwrights.

He has written - as of 2024 - 91 full length plays and more than 20 other revues and plays for children. He is also an acclaimed director, who Arthur Miller said directed the definitive version of his play A View From The Bridge.

Alan was born in Hampstead, London, on 12 April, 1939.

His mother was Irene Maud Worley – better known as the novelist Mary James - and his father Horace Ayckbourn, lead violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Educated at Haileybury, Alan left school at the age of 17 to pursue a career in the theatre immediately gaining a job with the theatre impresario Sir Donald Wolfit in 1