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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== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Terry Johnson (dramatist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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