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Simon Stephenson. I am from Edinburgh in Scotland, but live now in Los Angeles. I have had stopovers along the way in London and San Francisco. I’m a writer and screenwriter, and before I became a full-time writer I was a physician.
Simon Stephenson is a Scottish screenwriter and author. In March 2024, Variety reported that Stephenson had lodged a complaint against with the Writers Guild of America , alleging that David Hemingson 's screenplay of the film The Holdovers plagiarized an unproduced script he wrote entitled Frisco . [ 1 ]
Stephens lives in London with his wife and three children. He has three cats, a dog, a snake and a capybara as pets. In 2016, Stephens published A Working Diary, an account of his activities in 2014. [7]
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is a 2021 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Will Sharpe, from a story by Simon Stephenson, and screenplay by Stephenson and Sharpe. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch (as the eccentric artist Louis Wain), Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough and Toby Jones.
- Simon Stephens Biography
- When Stephens Met Haddon
- Stephens' Approach to Adapting The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time
Born in Manchester on 6 February 1971, Simon Stephens had always wanted to become a songwriter since he was about nine years old. Despite his aspirations, he ended up studying History at the University of York. It was whilst attending uni when he became exposed to serious theatre for the first time and discovered the potential in the art form and t...
Stephens was a dramatist at the National Theatre Studio when Mark Haddon, future author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003), was on an eight-week attachment. It was there where they met and found out they shared a whole lot in common. Before collaborating with Mark Haddon, Stephens had several plays under his belt, including...
Stephens admitted to taking the sizeable novel and building a skeleton chronology, which he used as the backbone for the play. He then transcribed all the direct speech from the novel, which he claimed had a "real dramatic charge to it," going on to say "[Haddon] has characters speak out loud when they want to affect change in other people." Stephe...
Dec 3, 2020 · Simon Stephenson is an author and screenwriter (and once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away he was a medical doctor). He is originally from Edinburgh in Scotland but currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Simon Stephenson is a Scottish writer based in Los Angeles. He previously worked as an NHS doctor, most recently in paediatrics in London. His first book, LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA (John Murrays, 2011), was a memoir about the loss of his brother in the Indian ocean tsunami.
