Tom Stoppard
Writer
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Tom Stoppard’s most recent play, Leopoldstadt, opened at Wyndham's Theatre in 2020 and transferred to Broadway in 2022. It won multiple Awards, including an Olivier Award and Tony Award for Best Play.
His plays include: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, Dogg’s Our Pett, New-Found Land, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (a play for actors and orchestra written with André Previn), Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, The Coast of Utopia, Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Hard Problem.
Adaptations include: Tango, Undiscovered Country, On the Razzle, Rough Crossing and Dalliance.
Translations include: The Seagull, Henry IV, Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, The House Of Bernarda Alba and Largo Desolato. He has written eight Evening Standard award-winning plays and five of his plays have won Tony awards.
Radio plays include: Darkside (set to Pink Floyd’s album, The Dark Side of the Moon); On ‘Dover Beach’, If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank, Albert’s Bridge (Italia Prize winner); M is for Moon Among Other Things, The Dissolution of Dominic Boot, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died and In the Native State.
Television adaptations include: Parade’s End (BBC/HBO); A Walk on the Water (from Enter a Free Man); Three Men in a Boat and The Dog It Was That Died. Original television screenplays include: Another Moon Called Earth, A Separate Peace, Neutral Ground, Teeth and Professional Foul, which won awards from BAFTA, the Broadcasting Press Guild and Squaring the Circle. He adapted his television dramatisation of Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat for BBC Radio.
Screenplays include Anna Karenina, Despair, The Romantic Englishwoman, The Human Factor, Brazil, Empire of the Sun, The Russia House, Billy Bathgate, Poodle Springs and Shakespeare in Love (with Marc Norman), which won him an Academy award for Best Original Screenplay, a Golden Globe and the Broadcast Film Critics and American Guild awards for Best Screenplay 1998. He directed and wrote the screenplay for the film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which won the Prix d’Or at the Venice Film Festival 1990 for Best Film.
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Film
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
ANNA KARENINA 2012 | Working Title/Universal/Focus Features | Screenplay from the novel by Tolstoy |
ENIGMA 2001 | Intermedia/Paramount | Screenplay from the novel by Robert Harris |
VATEL 2000 | Legende/Miramax | English adaptation |
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE 1998 | Miramax | Screenplay from Marc Norman |
BILLY BATHGATE 1991 | Touchstone/BVI | Screenplay from the novel by E L Doctorow |
THE RUSSIA HOUSE 1990 | MGM/Pathe | Screenplay from novel by J Le Carre |
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD 1990 | Brandenberg | Screenplay from his own play |
EMPIRE OF THE SUN 1987 | Warner Bros | Screenplay from novel by J G Ballard |
BRAZIL 1985 | Embassy/Universal | Co-Screenplay |
THE HUMAN FACTOR 1980 | Rank/Sigma | Screenplay from the novel by Graham Green |
DESPAIR 1978 | Bavaria/New Line | From the book by Vladimir Nabokov |
THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN 1975 | Arlington Properties/New World Pictures | Screenplay from the novel by Thomas Wiseman |
Television
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
PARADE'S END 2012 | BBC/Mammoth Screen | 5 x 1 hour television |
POODLE SPRINGS 1998 | Mirage/HBO | From the book by Raymond Chandler and Robert Parker |
LARGO DESOLATO 1990 | Television film | |
THE DOG IT WAS THAT DIED 1988 | Granada | Television film |
SQUARING THE CIRCLE 1984 | Channel 4 | Original Screenplay |
PROFESSIONAL FOUL 1977 | BBC | Original Screenplay |
THREE MEN IN A BOAT 1975 | BBC | From the novel by Jerome K Jerome |
Radio
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
DARKSIDE 2013 | BBC Radio 2 | Transmitted 26th August 2013 |
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
ROCK 'N' ROLL 2023 - 2024 | Hampstead Theatre | Dir. Nina Raine |
2020 | Sonia Friedman Productions | Directed by Patrick Marber |
2018 | Lincoln Center Theater | Directed by Jack O'Brien |
2017 | The Old Vic | Directed by David Leveaux |
2017 | Sonia Friedman Productions | West End and Broadway transfer |
TRAVESTIES 2016 | Mernier Chocolate Factory | Directed by Patrick Marber |
HAPGOOD 2015 | Hampstead Theatre | Directed by Howard Davies |
THE HARD PROBLEM 2015 | National Theatre | Directed by Nicholas Hytner |
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE 2014 | Disney Theatrical Productions/Sonia Friedman Productions | Dir: Declan Donnellan |
THE CHERRY ORCHARD 2009 | Adaptation of the play by Anton Chekhov | |
IVANOV 2008 | Adaptation of the play by Anton Chekhov | |
ROCK’N’ROLL 2006 | ||
HENRY IV 2004 | Translation of ENRICO IV by Luigi Pirandello | |
THE COAST OF UTOPIA 2002 | A trilogy comprising VOYAGE, SHIPWRECK and SALVAGE | |
THE SEAGULL 1997 | Translation of the play by Anton Chekhov | |
THE INVENTION OF LOVE 1997 | ||
INDIAN INK 1995 | Based on IN THE NATIVE STATE | |
ARCADIA 1993 | ||
HAPGOOD 1988 | ||
LARGO DESOLATO 1987 | Translation of the play by Václav Havel | |
DALLIANCE 1986 | Based on the original play LIEBELEI by Arthur Schnitzler | |
ROUGH CROSSING 1984 | Based on Play at the Castle by Ferenc Molnár | |
THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES 1983 | English libretto for opera by Sergei Prokofiev | |
THE REAL THING 1982 | ||
ON THE RAZZLE 1981 | Based on EINEN JUX WILL ER SICH MACHEN by Johann Nestroy | |
UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY 1979 | An adaptation of DAS WEITE LAND by Arthur Schnitzler | |
DOGG’S HAMLET, CAHOOTS MACBETH 1979 | ||
NIGHT AND DAY 1978 | ||
EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR 1977 | Music by André Previn | |
DIRTY LINEN & NEW-FOUND-LAND 1976 | ||
THE BOUNDARY 1975 | One Act Play written with Clive Exton | |
TRAVESTIES 1974 | ||
THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA 1973 | Adaptation of the play by Federico Garcia Lorca | |
JUMPERS 1972 | ||
ARTIST DESCENDING A STAIRCASE 1972 | ||
AFTER MAGRITTE 1969 | ||
IF YOU’RE GLAD I’LL BE FRANK 1968 | One Act | |
ALBERT’S BRIDGE 1968 | ||
THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND 1968 | ||
ENTER A FREE MAN 1968 | ||
TEETH 1967 | ||
TANGO 1966 | Adapted from the play by Sławomir Mrożek | |
A SEPARATE PEACE 1966 | One Act | |
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD 1966 |