Timberlake wertenbaker born

British-based playwright, screenplay writer, and translator

Timberlake Wertenbaker^[1] is a British-based playwright, screenplay writer, and translator who has written plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and others.

She has been described in The Washington Post as "the doyenne of political theatre of the s and s".^[2][3]

Wertenbaker's best-known work is Our Country's Good, which received six Tony nominations for its production.

She has a propensity to write about political thinking and conflict, especially where there is a settled orthodoxy: "Then the rebel in me goes berserk, and I start pawing at it. I like the area where the questions are, and the ambiguities of political life, rather than the certainties."^[2]

Biography

Wertenbaker was born in New York City to Charles Wertenbaker, a journalist, and Lael Wertenbaker, a writer.^[4][5] Much of her childhood was spent i