Simon Bent - Playwright

Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright. Plays by SIMON BENT have been produced at The National Theatre of Great Britain, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, in London’s West End, and on Broadway.  His works include Bad Company, Goldhawk Road (Time Out best play and nominated for a London Evening Standard Award) Sugar Sugar (Bush Theatre, London); Shelter (Connections/National Theatre Studio, London); The Trouble with Girls (National Theatre Studio, London); Accomplices (Sheffield Crucible/National Theatre, London; nominated for Barclays best play); The Escapologist (Suspect Culture/Theatre Royal, Plymouth); The Associate, A prayer for Owen Meany (National Theatre, London); Under the Black Flag (Shakespeare’s Globe, London); Elling (Bush Theatre/Trafalgar Studios, London; Whatsonstage best comedy and nominated for an Olivier Award); Branded (Old Vic, London); and Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy Theatre, London). 

Television/film credits include The Yellow House; Sex, the City and Me; This Charming Man, and Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA.

Agent: Julia Kreitman