Don Black OBE is a highly-acclaimed, Oscar-winning lyricist. His works have included movie themes, hit songs, and numerous musicals, including three with Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tell Me on a Sunday, Aspects of Love, and Sunset Boulevard, for which he received two Tony Awards for Best Book and Lyrics, together with Christopher Hampton.
Mr. Black's movie credits include themes for many James Bond films: Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man with the Golden Gun, "Surrender" from Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough. In collaboration with composer John Barry, he wrote the title song for the 1966 film Born Free, ... read more
David Ives is probably best known for his evenings of one-act comedies called All in the Timing and Time Flies. All in the Timing won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season was the most performed play in the country after Shakespeare productions. His full-length plays include The School For Lies (adapted from Moliere's The Misanthrope and a major hit at New York's Classic Stage Company last spring); The Heir Apparent (an adaptation of J-F Regnard's comedy that was an audience and critical hit at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, ... read more
Michael Kunze is a lyricist and librettist of the musical theater. His hit shows ELISABETH, DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES, MOZART!, MARIE ANTOINETTE, REBECCA, MOSES, LADY BESS, DON CAMILLO & PEPPONE and MATTERHORN have reached an audience of more than 19 million people. The worldwide box office gross of his works has passed the 1 billion mark. As a lyricist he has created more than 200 chart songs and was honored with a Grammy and an Echo Lifetime Award. He also wrote several books.
His musicals are regarded the foundation of a new genre of the contemporary popular musical theatre, called the ... read more
West End: All My Sons, Carousel, Hitchcock Blonde, Lenny, The Breath of Life, The Woman in White, Betrayal, The Last Confession; National Theatre: over 60 productions; Royal Court Theatre; Royal Shakespeare Company; Opera Bayreuth: The Ring Cycle; Salzburg Festival: Un ballo in maschera; Metropolitan Opera: Billy Budd; Opera National de Paris; Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Film Persuasion: BAFTA Award. Other: Roman Polanski’s Dance of the Vampires (Vienna), Peter Pan (Kensington Gardens and U.S. tour). Awards include seven Olivier Awards. ... read more
