Name Stephen Brown Role Playwright | ||
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Education Jesus College, Cambridge | ||
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Stephen Brown is best known as a playwright but has also been a publisher and writer.
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Life and career
Brown attended Eton College, Jesus College, Cambridge and the University of Sussex.
He was Publisher of Prospect Magazine and has reviewed theatre for Radio 4's Front Row, the Times Literary Supplement and others.
In 2003, he wrote the script for Filter Theatre's Faster, based on the James Gleick book of the same name. After running at the Battersea Arts Centre and Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith), this toured nationally and internationally.
In 2007, his play Future Me, which dramatised the prison treatment of a successful lawyer convicted of sex offenses, was produced at Theatre 503. It was subsequently produced in Berkeley and New York, and toured England with Coronation Street's Rupert Hill.
He was subsequently commissioned by the National Theatre to write a play about René Descartes, and to adapt Occupational Hazards, Rory Stewart's memoir of his experiences as a senior coalition official in Iraq. This latter work was produced at the Hampstead Theatre in May 2017.