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BIO

Internationally award-winning writer Tom Stoppard’s plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, 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, most recently, The Hard Problem. His radio plays include Albert’s Bridge, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank, and most recently, Darkside. As well as for the stage and radio, Stoppard is an award-winning writer for film and television.

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Awards and Nominations


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Drama Desk Awards - 2023 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 2023 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt


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Evening Standard Awards - 2014 - Lebedev Award

Tom Stoppard


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Evening Standard Awards - 2011 - Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull

Sir Tom Stoppard

Tony Awards - 2008 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll


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BroadwayWorld Awards - 2007 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia


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Drama Desk Awards - 2007 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia

Drama Desk Awards - 2007 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 2007 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia

Olivier Awards - 2007 - Best New Play

Tom Stoppard, Rock 'N' Roll


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Tony Awards - 2007 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia


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Evening Standard Awards - 2006 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll

Olivier Awards - 2003 - The BBC Award for Best New Play

Tom StoppardThe Coast Of Utopia - Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage


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Drama Desk Awards - 2001 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 2001 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love

Tony Awards - 2001 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love


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Drama Desk Awards - 2000 - Outstanding Revival - Play

Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

Olivier Awards - 1998 - BBC Award for the Play of the Year

Tom StoppardThe Invention Of Love


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Evening Standard Awards - 1997 - Best Play

Tom StoppardThe Invention of Love

Drama Desk Awards - 1995 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Drama Desk Awards - 1995 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1995 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Tony Awards - 1995 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Olivier Awards - 1994 - BBC Award for the Play of the Year

Tom StoppardArcadia


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Evening Standard Awards - 1993 - Best Play

Tom StoppardArcadia


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Drama Desk Awards - 1984 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1984 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing


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Tony Awards - 1984 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing


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Evening Standard Awards - 1982 - Best Play

Tom StoppardThe Real Thing

Olivier Awards - 1981 - Comedy of the Year

Tom StoppardOn The Razzle

Drama Desk Awards - 1980 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, Night and Day

Olivier Awards - 1979 - Play of the Year

Tom StoppardNight And Day


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Evening Standard Awards - 1978 - Best Play

Tom StoppardNight and Day


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Evening Standard Awards - 1976 - Best Comedy

Tom StoppardTravesties


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1976 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Travesties


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Tony Awards - 1976 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Travesties


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Evening Standard Awards - 1972 - Best Play

Tom StoppardJumpers


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1968 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead


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Tony Awards - 1968 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead


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Evening Standard Awards - 1967 - Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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News


Full Cast Set For David Mamet's HOUSE OF GAMES at Hampstead Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Mar 24, 2025

Hampstead Theatre has announced the full cast for House of Games, a new production of Richard Bean's gripping adaptation of David Mamet's noir thriller.
Interview: Paul Slade Smith of THEATRE PEOPLE at Westport Country Playhouse
by Sherry Shameer Cohen - Mar 20, 2025

A Season of Laughter continues at the Westport Country Playhouse with Theatre People, a new adaptation of Ferenc Molnar’s 1924 three-act farce, Play at the Castle (Játék a kastélyban).
MCNEAL Now Available For Licensing From Dramatists Play Service
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 18, 2025

Dramatists Play Service has announced the addition of McNeal, the bold and thought-provoking new play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar, to its distinguished catalog. The play is now available for licensing worldwide.
RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR and More Set for Writers Theatre 2025/26 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 18, 2025

Writers Theatre has revealed its 2025/26 season. The five-play season is marked by four productions never seen before in Chicago and two add-on special engagements.  
MCNEAL Now Available to License Through Dramatists Play Service
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 18, 2025

Dramatists Play Service has added McNeal, the new play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar, to its catalog. The play is now available for licensing worldwide. Learn more about the play here!
Video: Watch Raúl Esparza Sing 'Come to Your Senses' at MCC MISCAST22
by Michael Major - Mar 17, 2025

Watch Raúl Esparza sing 'Come to Your Senses' from Tick, Tick...BOOM! at MCC Theater's MISCAST22. The video was filmed at MCC's 2022 installation of the annual benefit concert.
Full Cast Set For RSC's TITUS ANDRONICUS With Simon Russell Beale
by Stephi Wild - Mar 13, 2025

Full casting has been announced for the RSC's forthcoming production of William Shakespeare's bloodiest of tragedies, Titus Andronicus, directed by Max Webster, which runs in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Meet the Cast of GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, Now in Previews on Broadway
by Stephi Wild - Mar 12, 2025

Good Night, and Good Luck is now in previews on Broadway,  The new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer, stars Clooney in his Broadway debut. Meet the cast here!
Austin Shakespeare To Bring LEOPOLDSTADT To Jewish Community Center
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 7, 2025

Austin Shakespeare will present a staged reading of Tom Stoppard’s award-winning play LEOPOLDSTADT. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD to be Presented at The Lee Strasberg Institute
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 6, 2025

The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute will present Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard's acclaimed tragicomedy that offers a fresh spin on Shakespeare's classic Hamlet. Learn more.
Photos: Brian Cox and More In Rehearsal for THE SCORE At Theatre Royal Haymarket
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 12, 2025

See brand new rehearsal photos of the cast of Oliver Cotton’s play THE SCORE starring legendary stage and screen actor Brian Cox (HBO’s multi-award-winning Succession) as Johann Sebastian Bach and Nicole Ansari-Cox as Bach’s wife Anna.
HOUSE OF GAMES and More Set For Hampstead Theatre's Spring 2025 Season
by Stephi Wild - Feb 3, 2025

Hampstead Theatre has announced details of its Spring 2025 season. The new programme, which runs from March to June, includes two world premieres and more.
Judges and Date Set For The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
by Stephi Wild - Jan 27, 2025

The organizers of The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize have announced that the playwriting award will be presented at an invitation-only event on Monday, March 10 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. Learn more here!
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Licensing Available to High Schools Through Broadway Licensing
by Michael Major - Jan 23, 2025

Water for Elephants is now available for licensing exclusively to high schools. This exciting opportunity allows high schools to stage the show beginning in early fall 2025, alongside the launch of the musical’s First National Tour.
THE SCORE At The Theatre Royal Haymarket Full Cast Announced
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 16, 2025

Further cast members joining legendary stage and screen actor Brian Cox (HBO's multi-award-winning Succession) as Johann Sebastian Bach and Nicole Ansari-Cox as Bach's wife Anna in Oliver Cotton's play THE SCORE have been announced.
Interview: 'Love Makes Every Character a Fool': Andrew Richardson on RSC's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by Kat Mokrynski - Jan 16, 2025

The RSC’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has transferred from Stratford-upon-Avon to the Barbican Centre for the winter. Starring Mathew Baynton as Bottom, the Shakespeare comedy tells the tale of four young lovers from Athens who escape into a magical forest where they come face-to-face with the fairy world.
Feature: Ilana Lucas Picks the Top Toronto Theatre of 2024
by Ilana Lucas - Jan 1, 2025

What did our critic have to say about Toronto's Top Theatre of 2024?
Review: THE INVENTION OF LOVE, Hampstead Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - Dec 17, 2024

Don’t be fooled. It’s midwinter and a rotund man with a big white beard is centre stage. But this is no schmultz-fest panto. It’s Simon Russell Beale as A.E Housman in Blanche Mcintyre’s sober new production of Tom Stoppard’s portrait of the artist as an old man, The Invention Of Love.
BroadwayWorld Classifieds 12/12/2024; Jobs In Education, Ticket Services and More
by - Dec 12, 2024

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 12/12/2024 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.
Review: LEOPOLDSTADT at Shakespeare Theatre Comany
by Pamela Roberts - Dec 9, 2024

Leopoldstadt, a weighty and ambitious work by award-winning author Tom Stoppard, is on stage now at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. The modern epic traces a Viennese Jewish family from the zest and promise at the eve of the 20th century, through the devastations of the Great War and the annexation of Austria by the German Reich, to the Holocaust and the tender, broken years after.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many shows has Tom Stoppard written?

Tom Stoppard has written 21 shows including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Playwright), Travesties (Playwright), Dirty Linen & New-Found-Land (Playwright), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Bookwriter), Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (Playwright), Night and Day (Playwright), Artist Descending a Staircase (Playwright), The Real Inspector Hound and The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (Playwright), Hapgood (Playwright), Arcadia (Playwright), The Real Thing (Playwright), Night and Day (Playwright), The Invention Of Love (Playwright), Jumpers (Playwright), The Coast of Utopia: Part 1 - Voyage (Playwright), The Coast of Utopia: Part 2 - Shipwreck (Playwright), The Coast of Utopia (Playwright), The Coast of Utopia: Part 3 - Salvage (Playwright), Rock 'n' Roll (Playwright), Shakespeare in Love (Based on the Screenplay), Leopoldstadt (Playwright).

What awards has Tom Stoppard been nominated for?

Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Leopoldstadt, Best Play (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for Leopoldstadt, Lebedev Award (Evening Standard Awards) for , Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull (Evening Standard Awards), Best Play (Tony Awards) for Rock 'n' Roll, Best Play (BroadwayWorld Awards) for The Coast of Utopia, Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Coast of Utopia, Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Rock 'n' Roll, Best Play (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for The Coast of Utopia, Best New Play (Olivier Awards) for Rock 'N' Roll, Best Play (Tony Awards) for The Coast of Utopia, Best Play (Evening Standard Awards) for Rock 'n' Roll, The BBC Award for Best New Play (Olivier Awards) for The Coast Of Utopia - Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage, Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Invention of Love, Best Play (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for The Invention of Love, Best Play (Tony Awards) for The Invention of Love, Outstanding Revival - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Real Thing, BBC Award for the Play of the Year (Olivier Awards) for The Invention Of Love, Best Play (Evening Standard Awards) for The Invention of Love, Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Arcadia, Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Arcadia, Best Play (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for Arcadia, Best Play (Tony Awards) for Arcadia, BBC Award for the Play of the Year (Olivier Awards) for Arcadia , Best Play (Evening Standard Awards) for Arcadia, Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Real Thing, Best Play (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for The Real Thing, Best Play (Tony Awards) for The Real Thing, Best Play (Evening Standard Awards) for The Real Thing, Comedy of the Year (Olivier Awards) for On The Razzle, Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Night and Day, Play of the Year (Olivier Awards) for Night And Day, Best Play (Evening Standard Awards) for Night and Day, Best Comedy (Evening Standard Awards) for Travesties, Best Play (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for Travesties, Best Play (Tony Awards) for Travesties, Best Play (Evening Standard Awards) for Jumpers, Best Play (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Best Play (Tony Awards) for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright (Evening Standard Awards) for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead .

What awards has Tom Stoppard won?

Tom Stoppard has received several prestigious awards throughout his career. He won the Outstanding Play award at the Drama Desk Awards for both Leopoldstadt and The Coast of Utopia. Additionally, he received the Best Play award from the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Leopoldstadt, The Coast of Utopia, The Invention of Love, The Real Thing, Arcadia, Travesties, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Stoppard was also honored with the Lebedev Award at the Evening Standard Awards and the Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull award. His work on The Coast of Utopia and The Real Thing garnered him Outstanding Play honors at the Drama Desk Awards. Furthermore, he received the Best Play award from the Evening Standard Awards for Rock 'n' Roll, The Invention of Love, Arcadia, The Real Thing, Night and Day, Travesties, and Jumpers. Lastly, he earned the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

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