Timberlake Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque country and lives in London. She is one of the UK’s leading playwrights and her work is performed worldwide. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Olivier Award and the New York Drama Critics Award for Our Country’s Good and a Writers’ Guild Award for Three Birds Alighting on a Field.  Jefferson’s Garden, which won the 2016 Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play, premiered at Watford Palace Theatre and opened in Washington in January 2018.

Plays include: Winter Hill, My Father Odysseus,  We Sell Right, The Ant and the Cicada, The Love of the Nightingale, Our Ajax, The Line, Galileo’s Daughter, Credible Witness, The Break of the Day, Three Birds Alighting On A Field, The Grace Of Mary Traverse, Abel’s Sister, The Ash Girl and After Darwin.Translations include: Britannicus, Elektra, Hippolytus, Hecuba, The Thebans, Wild Orchids, False Admissions, Mephisto and Filumena. 

Her recent translation of Little Brother by Amets Arzallus and Ibrahima Balde from the Basque won a Pen Translation Award and she is currently working on an adaptation of Little Brother for the stage. Timberlake has also undertaken many adaptations for radio including Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

TRANSLATIONS

ELEKTRA (ACT, San Francisco)
After Sophocles
Dir: Carey Perloff
Starring Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis

BRITANNICUS (Wilton’s Music Hall)
After Jean Racine
Dir: Irina Brown

PHEDRE (Shakespeare Festival, Stratford Ontario)
After Jean Racine
Dir: Carey Perloff

WILD ORCHIDS  (Chichester Festival Theatre)
After Anoulih
Dir: Ed Kemp

FILUMENA (Piccadilly Theatre, West End) 1998/99
After De Filippo
Dir: Peter Hall

HECUBA (ACT Productions San Francisco)
After Euripides
Dir: Carey Perloff

THE THEBANS (RSC)
After Sophocles
Dir: Adrian Noble

MEPHISTO  (RSC)
After Ariane Mnouchkine
Dir: Adrian Noble

FALSE ADMISSIONS      (Lyric, Hammersmith) 1983
& SUCCESSSFUL STRATEGIES
After Marivaux
Dir: Mike Alfreds

RADIO

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
Adapted from the books by Marcel Proust

ELENA FERRANTE SERIES (BBC Radio)
Adapted from the books by Elena Ferrante

WAR & PEACE (BBC Radio)
Adapted from the book by Leo Tolstoy

THE MEMORY OF GOLD (Unique Production for BBC Radio 3)
A drama inspired by the Wagner opera.

POSSESSION (BBC Woman’s Hour) Dramatised of the A. S Byatt novel

SCENES OF SEDUCTION
Dir: Ned Chaillet

NEW ANATOMIES

WHAT IS THE CUSTOM OF YOUR GRIEF (Fact To Fiction)

LA DISPUTE (Marivaux Translation)

PELLEAS AND MELISANDE (Maeterlinck Translation)

MADAME PARADIS

FIVE O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON (part of the Better Than Sex Series)

DIANEIRA

LIBRETTI

THE LOVE OF THE NIGHTINGALE (Perth Festival) 2007
Staged at The Sydney Opera House 2011

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