Terry Johnson (dramatist)

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. At the 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 for 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 (directed by Nicolas Roeg) was the official British Entry at Cannes Film Festival in 1985.

Stage work

as playwright

Days Here So Dark (1981, Paines Plough, Edinburgh)
Insignificance (1982, Royal Court Theatre) (Plays & Players Award Best Play, Evening Standard Award Most Promising Playwright)
Cries From The Mammal House (1984, Leicester Haymarket/Royal Court)
Unsuitable For Adults (1984, Bush Theatre)
Imagine Drowning (1991, Hampstead Theatre)
Hysteria (1993, Royal Court, Mark Taper Forum, Duke of Yorks) (Olivier Award Best Comedy 1993)
Dead Funny (1994, Hampstead, Vaudville, Savoy) (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 (adaptation from Edward Ravenscroft)(1998, Royal National Theatre, Lyttelton)
Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (1998, National Theatre) (Olivier Award: Best Comedy 1998)
The Graduate (adaptation from novel by Charles Webb and screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry)(2000, London, Australia, New York, UK & US tours) (Touring Broadway Award Best Play)
Hitchcock Blonde (2003, Royal Court/The Lyric, West End, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California)
Piano/Forte (2006, Royal Court)

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 (Hampstead Theatre / Vaudeville Theatre)
Cleo, Camping Emmanuelle and Dick (National Theatre)
Sparkleshark (National Theatre)
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 (Theatre Royal, Stratford East)

Television

films

Tuesday's Child (BBC) (co-written with Kate Lock)
Way Up Stream (adapted for BBC)
Cor, Blimey! (Company Pictures/ITV)
Not Only But Always (Company/Ch4)(Nominated British Comedy Awards Best Television Comedy; Nominated BAFTA Best Single Drama; Winner BAFTA Best Actor for Rhys Ifans, Winner Banff Best Made-for-TV Movie)

series / serials

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

Insignificance (directed by Nicolas Roeg)

References

↑ "Ben Miller and Diana Vickers star in Duck House in the West End". whatsonstage.com. Whats On Stage. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.

External links

John Whiting Award

1967–1969	Tom Stoppard for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Wole Soyinka (shared) (1967) Peter Nichols for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967) Peter Barnes for The Ruling Class and Edward Bond for Narrow Road to the Deep North (shared) (1968) Howard Brenton for Christie in Love (1969)

1970–1979	Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for Freehold on Antigone (1970) Mustapha Matura for As Time Goes By (1971) Heathcote Williams for AC/DC (1972) John Arden (1973) David Rudkin (1974) David Edgar for Destiny (1975) David Lan for The Winter Dancers (1976) David Halliwell and Snoo Wilson for The Glad Hand (shared) (1978) Stephen Bill (1979)

1980–1989	David Pownall for Beef (1981) Karim Alrawi for Migrations (1982) Peter Flannery for Our Friends in the North (1983) Ron Hutchinson for The Rat in the Skull (1984) Guy Hibbert for On the Edge and Heidi Thomas for Shamrocks & Crocodiles (shared) (1985) Nick Dear for The Art of Success (1986) Iain Heggie for American Bagpipes (1988) Billy Roche for A Handful of Stars (1989)

1990–1999	Lucy Gannon for Keeping Tom Nice (1990) Terry Johnson for Imagine Drowning (1991) Rod Wooden for Your Home in the West (1992) Martin Crimp for The Treatment and Helen Edmundson for The Clearing (shared) (1993) Jonathan Harvey for Beautiful Thing (1994) Joe Penhall for Some Voices (1995) Ayub Khan-Din for East is East (1996) Ann Coburn for Get up and Tie you Fingers (1997) Roy Williams for Starstruck (1998/9)

2000–2009	David Greig for The Cosmonaut's Last Message ... and Tanika Gupta for The Waiting Room (shared) (2000) Zinnie Harris for Farther than the Farest Thing (2001) Peter Rumney for Jumping on my Shadow (2002) Rona Munro for Iron (2003) Owen McCafferty for Scenes from the Big Picture (2004) Fin Kennedy for How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (2005) James Philips for The Rubenstein Kiss and Fraser Grace for Breakfast with Mugabe (shared) (2006) Dennis Kelly for Taking Care of Baby (2007) Bryony Lavery for Stockholm (2008) Alexi Kaye Campbell for The Pride (2009)

2010–9999	Tim Crouch for The Author and Lucy Kirkwood for It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It Is Alright Now (shared) (2010)

Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (2001–2025)

Susan Stroman (2001) John Rando (2002) Jack O'Brien (2003) Joe Mantello (2004) Mike Nichols (2005) John Doyle (2006) Michael Mayer (2007) Bartlett Sher (2008) Stephen Daldry (2009) Terry Johnson (2010) Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker (2011) John Tiffany (2012) Diane Paulus (2013) Darko Tresnjak (2014) Sam Gold (2015)

Complete list (1950–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

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