Martin Crimp biography

Martin Crimp
At Writers Theatre: The Maids

Martin Crimp's work includes The City (2008), Fewer Emergencies (2005), Cruel And Tender (2004), Face To The Wall (2002), The Country (2000), Attempts On Her Life (1997), The Treatment (1993), Getting Attention (1992), No One Sees The Video (1991), Dealing With Clair (1989) And Definitely The Bahamas (1987). His translations include Rhinoceros (2007). The Jewish Wife (2007), The False Servant (2004), The Triumph Of Love (1999). The Maids (1999), The Chairs (1997), Roberto Zucco (1997), a controversial version of The Seagull (2006) for the National Theatre and a contemporary verse adaptation of The Misanthrope (1996). The Treatment was winner of the 1993 John Whiting Award and in 2005 he received Italy's Premio Ubu for the Fewer Emergencies trilogy. He has a long-standing relationship with London's Royal Court Theatre, the Vienna Festival and the Festival d'Automne in Paris, which commissioned his first text for music, Into the Utile Hill (2006), for composer George Benjamin, which opened at the Paris Opera before touring internationally.

[Bio as of March 2009]