Hugh Whitemore
Hugh Whitemore
Hugh Whitemore was born in 1936. He studied for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he later became a member of the Council. He began his writing career in British television (contributing to The Wednesday Play, Armchair Theatre and Play for Today) and twice received Writers' Guild Awards. He has also written for American television, receiving Emmy nominations for Concealed Enemies (a mini-series about the Alger Hiss espionage case) and The Final Days (a dramatisation of the Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein book about the downfall of President Nixon). The Gathering Storm, a film about Churchill in the 1930s, with Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave, which won the 2002 Emmy Award for outstanding writing and the Writers Guild of America Award. His latest film about Churchill, Into the Storm, starring Brendan Gleeson and Janet McTeer, was shown by HBO and BBC in 2009 and nominated for Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Movie credits include The Return of the Soldier (an adaptation of the novel by Rebecca West), Mel Brooks¹ production of 84 Charing Cross Road, Utz, (an adaptation of Bruce Chatwin's novel) and Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre. His stage plays include Sand in the Sandwiches, Stevie, Pack of Lies, Breaking the Code, The Best of Friends, It's Ralph, A Letter of Resignation, Disposing of the Body, God Only Knows and a new version of Pirandello¹s As You Desire Me. These plays have been translated into many languages and produced throughout the world. He co-wrote the stage play of The Last Cigarette with Simon Gray, based on Simon’s diaries. Hugh Whitemore¹s work has twice been named Best Single TV drama by the UK Broadcasting Press Guild, he has received the Scripter Award in Hollywood (for 84 Charing Cross Road), the Script Prize at the 1998 Monte Carlo Festival (for his adaptation of A Dance to the Music of Time) and a special Communications Award from the American Mathematical Society (for Breaking the Code). He was the 2003-4 News International Visiting Professor in broadcast media at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of King¹s College, London.Perform Hugh Whitemore
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Stevie
Hugh Whitemore
Full-Length PlayStevie
Full-Length Play / 2w, 1m
"There is enough unassuming laughter in Stevie to provide a steady flow of pleasure." - New York Magazine
"Warm, engrossing and winning." - Women's Wear Daily
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A Letter of Resignation
Hugh Whitemore
Full-Length Play, DramaA Letter of Resignation
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 3m
1963 was an amazing year and life was changing. Britain was becoming a different place and to many people, Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, seemed outdated and irrelevant - an Edwardian grandee lingering uncomfortably in the world of E-type Jagu…
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Breaking the Code
Hugh Whitemore
Full-Length Play, DramaBreaking the Code
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 7m
Derek Jacobi took London and Broadway by storm in this exceptional biographical drama about a man who broke too many codes: the eccentric genius Alan Turing who played a major role in winning the World War II; he broke the complex German code called Enigma, enabling allied forces to foresee German maneuvers.
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Stevie
Hugh Whitemore
Full-Length PlayStevie
Full-Length Play / 2w, 1m
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A Letter of Resignation
Hugh Whitemore
Full-Length Play, DramaA Letter of Resignation
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 3m
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A Marvellous Year for Plums
Hugh Whitemore
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Breaking the Code
Hugh Whitemore
Full-Length Play, DramaBreaking the Code
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 7m