Alan Ayckbourn, English director and playwright

Alan Ayckbourn

English playwright (born 1939)

Sir Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific British playwright and director. As of 2025, he has written and produced 90 full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his…