Keeffe, Barrie

Autor: Keeffe, Barrie
Rok: 1945-

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Britský dramatik.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Barrie Colin Keeffe (born 31 October 1945) is an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his screenplay for the 1981 film The Long Good Friday.Keeffe was educated at East Ham Grammar School and joined the National Youth Theatre as an actor, but actually started work as a journalist. His first television play The Substitute, was produced in 1972, his first theatre play Only a Game in 1973 and became a full time dramatic author in 1975: his theatre plays have been produced in 26 countries. He was writer-in-residence at the Shaw Theatre in 1977, resident playwright with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1978, and associate writer at the Theatre Royal Stratford East from 1986 to 1991. He taught dramatic writing at City University, London (2002–6), was Judith J. Wilson Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge (2003–4), visiting lecturer and patron of Writing for Performance at Ruskin College, Oxford (2003-4), and writer in residence at Kingston University (from 2011). He has led the Collaldra Writers School and Retreat, Venice since 2007. He was a United Nations Ambassador in 1995 (UN 50th anniversary year) and was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at Warwick University in 2010. He received the Paris Critics Prix Revelations in 1978 and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1982. He is represented by The Agency, London.He is married to the film and television producer Jacky Stoller. When his second wife, the novelist and theatre director Verity Bargate, died in 1981, he became the guardian of her two sons Sam and Tom.