David Wood
David Wood (19**-) is an English playwright and actor.
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Biography
David Wood has been referred to as the UK's 'National Children's Dramatist'.
He has written over seventy productions, including original plays, adaptations and pantomime 'substitutes'. He has also written screenplays and children's books.
In 2004 he was awarded an OBE for services to literature and drama.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Plays by David Wood performed in South Africa include: Flibberty and the Penguin, The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See..., The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner, Nutcracker Sweet, Hijack Over Hygenia, The Selfish Shellfish.
Sources
Flibberty and the Penguin programme, 1991
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