Terry Johnson (born 20 December 1955) is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. Educated at Birmingham University , he worked as an actor from 1971 to 1975, and has been active as a playwright since the early 1980s.
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30-479: A BAFTA for Rhys Ifans . The film version of his play Insignificance (directed by Nicolas Roeg ) was the official British entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985. Joe Penhall Joe Scott Penhall (born 1967) is an English-Australian playwright and screenwriter, best known for his award-winning stage play Blue/Orange , the award-winning West End musical Sunny Afternoon and creating
45-520: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Terry Johnson (dramatist) Johnson's stage work has been produced around the world. He has won nine British Theatre awards including the Olivier Award for Best Comedy 1994 and 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best New Play 1995, two Evening Standard Theatre Awards ,
60-563: The Hampstead Theatre in May 2014, before transferring to London 's West End . The musical won four Laurence Olivier Awards in 2015, including for Best New Musical . In 2017, Penhall created the Netflix series Mindhunter , directed by David Fincher . In 2018, Penhall's play Mood Music premiered at The Old Vic , directed by Roger Michell and starring Ben Chaplin . In 2023, Penhall
75-733: The Netflix original series Mindhunter . Penhall was born in London, and raised in Adelaide, Australia . Penhall's first major play, Some Voices , premiered at the Royal Court Theatre 's upstairs playing space in London in 1994. It was very well-received, winning the John Whiting Award , and has since been played off-Broadway twice. In 2000 Penhall adapted the play for a film with the same name directed by Simon Cellan Jones , starring Daniel Craig and Kelly Macdonald , which premiered at
90-572: The 2010 Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical for La Cage aux Folles . He has worked with Chicago 's Steppenwolf Theatre , directing John Malkovich in The Libertine (nominated for five Joseph Jefferson Awards including Best Production) and Lost Land , both plays by Stephen Jeffreys . He has written and directed television drama that has been broadcast worldwide, most recently Not Only But Always for Channel 4 , which won five International Award nominations, Best Film at Banff , and
105-660: The Cannes Directors' Fortnight . Penhall returned to the Royal Court Theatre with his second full-length play Pale Horse , which also played in the Theatre Upstairs and featured Ray Winstone , who had starred in Some Voices . A dark play, Pale Horse tells the story of a bar keeper coming to terms with the sudden death of his wife. Penhall adapted Ian McEwan 's novel Enduring Love in 2004 to film starring Rhys Ifans and Daniel Craig . That same year he also wrote
120-623: The Ohio House of Representatives Sports [ edit ] Terry Johnson (cricketer) (born 1941), former English cricketer Terry Johnson (footballer) (born 1949), British footballer Terry Johnson (ice hockey) (born 1958), Canadian ice hockey player Terry "Tank" Johnson (born 1981), American professional football defensive tackle Terry Johnson (basketball) , American basketball coach Other [ edit ] Terry Johnson (entrepreneur) (1935–2010), American entrepreneur in data storage [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
135-627: The Writers Guild Award for Best Play 1995 and 1996, the Meyer-Whitworth Award 1993 and the John Whiting Award 1991. He has had many West End productions as director and/or writer including: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest , Hitchcock Blonde , Entertaining Mr Sloane , The Graduate , Dead Funny , Hysteria , Elton John's Glasses and The Memory of Water . At the Royal Court Theatre he directed Dumb Show by Joe Penhall and opened his play Piano/Forte . Johnson won
150-413: The film after other writers were brought on board. Penhall adapted Cormac McCarthy 's book The Road in 2009 for a film starring Viggo Mortensen ; for this he received wide praise, scoring a 74% rating on Rotten Tomatoes , and was named by Variety Magazine as one of their Top Ten Screenwriters to watch. In 2009 Penhall's detective drama Moses Jones , where he also served as executive producer,
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#1732875720800180-473: The screenplay for BBC2's BAFTA -nominated dramatisation of Jake Arnott 's novel The Long Firm (1999), starring Mark Strong . In 2000 Penhall's play Blue/Orange began its run at the National Theatre , directed by Roger Michell and starring Bill Nighy , Andrew Lincoln and Chiwetel Ejiofor . The play centres on two NHS doctors trying to deal with a sectioned young black schizophrenic patient; it
195-752: Was a huge success, winning Best New Play at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards , Laurence Olivier Awards , and at the Critics' Circle . It transferred to the West End at the Duchess Theatre the following year. Penhall adapted this play in 2005 for TV with a new cast. That same year he wrote and directed The Undertaker , his first short film, starring Rhys Ifans and premiering at the London Film Festival. Penhall's follow-up play Dumb Show
210-559: Was shown on the BBC , winning a BAFTA for make-up design and Best Screenplay at the Roma Film Festival in 2009. In 2011 Penhall returned to the theatre with two plays: Haunted Child , staged at the Royal Court Theatre with Sophie Okonedo , and Birthday , starring Stephen Mangan and directed by long-term collaborator Roger Michell . Penhall's first stage musical, Sunny Afternoon , with music and lyrics by Ray Davies , premiered at
225-608: Was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in 2004, focusing on tabloid journalism. It was directed by Terry Johnson . Penhall has called this a "small light play" as opposed to the "huge dark play" Blue/Orange . Landscape With Weapon , about the invention of a weapon of mass destruction, was first performed at the National Theatre in 2007, directed again by Roger Michell and starring Tom Hollander and Julian Rhind-Tutt . Penhall spent six years working on The Last King of Scotland , even flying to Uganda and meeting Idi Amin 's henchmen; however, he requested his name be removed from
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