Alan Ayckbourn
Playwright
Tony Award-winning English playwright who wrote Relatively Speaking, House & Garden, and Bedroom Farce.
He was introduced to his future mentor, Stephen Joseph, while working at the Scarborough Library Theatre as a teen.
He served as director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre from 1972 to 2009.
He has one step-brother named Christopher.
He became England's second most performed playwright, after the legendary William Shakespeare .