Screenplay, Shakespeare in Love

Sir Tom Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia and grew up in Singapore and India during the Second World War. In 1946, he moved to England with his mother and stepfather. Stoppard became a journalist and theatre critic before writing plays, radio and TV plays, screenplays and film and TV adaptations of books and plays. His plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, his adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, On the Razzle (OSF, 2007), The Real Thing, Arcadia and a trilogy of plays set in 19th-century Russia, The Coast of Utopia. Several of his plays transferred to Broadway after successful West End runs and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Travesties won Tony Awards for Best Plays. Tom Stoppard was knighted in 1997. In 1998, he co-wrote (with Marc Norman) the Academy Award-winning screenplay for the film Shakespeare in Love. Other screenplays include Enigma and a new English version of Chekov's Ivanov.