Tom Stoppard
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Drama (2015-2016)
The Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Drama brings playwrights, actors, and directors to share their craft and explore the rich thought-provoking field of the theatre.
The Visiting Professorship in Drama is hosted by Brasenose College, Oxford. During the years 2010-2013 the professorship was generously supported by Eric Abraham. From 2014 onwards it has been made possible by the generous support of André Hoffmann.
Tom Stoppard is one of Britain’s leading playwrights and screenwriters. He has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards.
Tom Stoppard’s most recent play is The Hard Problem. His plays include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, After Magritte, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with André Previn), and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth. His most recent work for BBC television was Parade’s End (Ford Madox Ford), and his original television play Professional Foul won awards from BAFTA and the Broadcasting Press Guild.
Tom Stoppard’s most recent play is The Hard Problem. His plays include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, After Magritte, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with André Previn), and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth. His most recent work for BBC television was Parade’s End (Ford Madox Ford), and his original television play Professional Foul won awards from BAFTA and the Broadcasting Press Guild.
Screenplays include Anna Karenina, Brazil, Empire Of The Sun, Billy Bathgate, and Shakespeare In Love (with Marc Norman), for which he won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, the Broadcast Film Critics and American Guild Awards for Best Screenplay 1998. He directed and wrote the screenplay for the film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which won the Prix d’Or at the Venice Film Festival 1990.
