Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Liverpool Everyman and Chichester Festival Theatre (2010) 55 Days, Hampstead Theatre (2012) AIWW: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, Hampstead Theatre (2013) Drawing the Line, Hampstead Theatre (2013) Doctor Scroggy's War, Shakespeare's Globe (2014) Ransomed, Salisbury Playhouse (2015) Lawrence After Arabia, Chichester Festival Theatre (2016) The Shadow Factory, NST City Theatre, at the University of Southampton, (2018) Jude, Hampstead Theatre (2018) Libretto Playing Away, libretto for Ben Mason's football opera, Opera North and Munich Biennale (1994); revived Bregenz Festival (2007) Radio Nasser's Eden (1998) Screenplays Lushly (1972) The Saliva Milkshake, BBC (1975) The Paradise Run, Thames TV (1976) Desert of Lies, BBC Play for Today (1984) Dead Head, BBC 4-part series (1986) Spooks, BBC drama series (2002–2005), fourteen episodes; BAFTA Best Drama Series 2003 "Traitor's Gate" "The Rose Bed Memoirs" "Mean, Dirty, Nasty" (with David Wolstencroft) "Nest of Angels" "Blood & Money" "I Spy Apocalypse" "Smoke & Mirrors" "Project Friendly Fire" "The Sleeper" "Who Guards the Guards" (with Rupert Walters) "Celebrity" "Road Trip" "The Russian" "Diana" Books Diving for Pearls (novel), Nick Hern Books (1989) Hot Irons (diaries, essays, journalism), Nick Hern Books (1995) ; reissued in an expanded version, Methuen (1998) Awards Evening Standard Award for – Best Play 1976, for Weapons of Happiness Best Play 1985, for Pravda Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Award for best new play 2011, for Anne Boleyn Sources The Second Wave by John Russell Taylor, Methuen 1978 reprint Who's Who in the Theatre, 17th Edition, Gale (1981) Brenton: Plays One, Methuen 1986 Theatre Record and its annual Indexes Howard Brenton's CV for Never So Good RNT programme 2008 References External links "A life in theatre: Howard Brenton" 10-07-2010 The Observer Profile: Howard Brenton (10/2005) Brenton, Howard (12 May 2007). "P;aying to the Crowd". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 April 2020. Comprehensive career Q&A on theartsdesk.com 17 July 2010 1942 births Living people Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge English male dramatists and playwrights English male screenwriters English television writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature British male television writers Writers from Portsmouth