Stephen Jeffreys

Stephen Jeffreys (born 1950) is a British playwright.

His plays include:

• Like Dolls or Angels (1977) (Sunday Times Playwriting Award at the National Student Drama Festival);
• Carmen 1936 (Edinburgh Fringe Festival Fringe First in 1984);
• Valued Friends (1990, Hampstead Theatre);
• The Clink (1990);
• The Libertine (1994) - also a screenplay filmed with Johnny Depp;
• A Going Concern (1993);
• An adaptation of Richard Brome's play, A Jovial Crew (1992);
• I Just Stopped By to See The Man (2000);
• Interruptions (2001); and
• Lost Land (2005). (2008)
• The Convict's Opera, a reworking of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, jointly commissioned by Out of Joint theatre company and Sydney Theatre Company.
• Backbeat (2011, Duke of York's Theatre, London) (Co-written with Iain Softley).
• Caught in Flight screenplay. A film on Diana, Princess of Wales

Personal life

He is married to the theatre and opera director Annabel Arden.

Further reading

• Jeffreys, Stephen (1994) The Libertine, Nick Hern Books, London. ISBN 978-1-85459-277-4