{"title":"Michael Frayn","role":"Playwright","image":"","lede":null,"content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p><strong>MICHAEL FRAYN (Playwright)<\/strong> has written sixteen plays, and several of them have been produced in New York, including Noises Off, Copenhagen, Benefactors, and Democracy. <em>Noises Off<\/em>, first produced on Broadway in 1983, was revived in 2001. <em>Copenhagen<\/em>, in 2000, won a Tony, together with Tony Awards for Best Director (Michael Blakemore) and Best Featured Actress (Blair Brown).  He has also translated for the theatre, mostly Chekhov and other plays from the Russian, and adapted Chekhov\u2019s first, untitled play as <em>Wild Honey<\/em>. He has written a number of screenplays, including <em>Clockwise<\/em>, starring John Cleese, and <em>First and Last<\/em>, which won an International Emmy.  His books are published in New York by Holt Metropolitan. His eleven novels include <em>The Tin Men<\/em>, <em>Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong<\/em>, <em>Spies<\/em>, and most recently <em>Skios<\/em>. He has also published two works of philosophy, <em>Constructions<\/em> and <em>The Human Touch<\/em>; and a memoir, <em>My Father\u2019s Fortune.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","website":"","alt":""}