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Simon Bent's other plays include Bad Company, Goldhawk Road, Sugar Sugar (Bush Theatre, London); Shelter (Connections/National Theatre, London); Accomplices (Sheffield Crucible/National Theatre Studio); The Escapologist (Suspect Culture/Theatre Royal Plymouth); The Associate, A Prayer For Owen Meany (National Theatre, London); Under The Black Flag (Shakespeare's Globe, London); Elling (Bush Theatre/Trafalgar Studios/ Broadway); Branded (Old Vic, London); Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy Theatre, London). Television/film include; The Yellow House, Sex the City and Me, This Charming Man and Christie Malry's Own Double Entry for which he was nominated for a BA FTA.Howard Jacobson is a novelist and broadcaster. His novel The Mighty Walzer won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. In 2010 his novel The Finkler Question won the Man Booker Prize, and in 2014 J was shortlisted for the same prize. His new novel is Shylock is My Name. Until its closure earlier this year, he wrote a weekly column for the Independent. He was born in Manchester. |
