Biography
Howard Brenton is an English playwright and screenwriter. Born in Portsmouth in 1942, he read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and began his career in fringe theatre, joining the Brighton Combination and Portable Theatre in the late 1960s.
He is known for stage works including Christie in Love (1969), Magnificence (1973), Weapons of Happiness (1976, Evening Standard Award), The Romans in Britain (1980), and collaborations with David Hare such as Brassneck (1973) and Pravda (1985). On television he wrote thirteen episodes of the BBC series Spooks (2002–2005), which won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series in 2003, and contributed to Play for Today.
Brenton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017. He has also written radio plays, a novel and adaptations of classic texts.
