{{Short description|English writer and playwright}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} '''Stephen Wakelam''' is an English writer and playwright born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.<ref name = "SWsite">{{cite web|title=Bio |url=http://www.stephenwakelam.net|accessdate=20 April 2015}}</ref> After Cambridge University, he was an English Teacher and Head of Department in South Yorkshire until he became a full-time writer in 1976.<ref name="SWsite" /> He was Young Writers' Tutor at the Royal Court Theatre from 1981–1984 and then tutored young playwrights at the National Theatre Studio in the 1990s.<ref name="SWsite" /> He has written over forty performed plays, at first mainly in television then primarily on radio.<ref name="SWsite" /> His subjects are almost exclusively biographical, covering a broad range of interests. Wakelam was The Royal Literary Society Writer in Residence at universities in Leeds and Kent, 2009–2012.<ref name="SWsite" /> From January 2015 he is Writer in Residence at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham.<ref name="SWsite" />
==Selected works== *''The Pattern of Painful Adventures'' *''Gaskin'' *''Coppers'' *''Angel Voices'' *''Circles of Deceit'' *''Deadlines'' *''Two Men from Delft'' *''Adulteries of a Provincial Wife'' *''Answered Prayers'' *''Death at the Bed End'' *''Punters'' *''Hard Knocks'' *''Selling Immortality'' *''The Finding'' *''The Good Samaritan'' *''To the Camp and Back'' *''Miss A and Miss M'' *''Letting the Birds Go Free'' *''Rainy Day'' *''Other Women'' *''Triangle at Rhodes'' *''Silver Lining'' *''Tea Leaf on the Roof'' *''The Fox'' *''Grassroots'' *''Released'' *''Time Passing'' *''What I Think of my Husband'' *''A Dose of Fame'' *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xn9y1/Drama_on_3_Living_with_Princes/ ''Living With Princes''], on the life of Montaigne (2011)
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==External links== *[http://www.stephenwakelam.net/ Personal website] *[http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/stephenwakelam.html Radio work]
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