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Alan ayckbourn brief biography of prophets
Alan Ayckbourn: Long Biography
This is the officially approved 2024 long biography for Alan Ayckbourn. A short biography suitable for use in programmes is also available here.
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.
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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