Tom Stoppard’s (Playwright) plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (written with Andre Previn), Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, and The Coast of Utopia. He also adapted Tango (Mrozek), Undiscovered Country (Schnitzler), On the Razzle (Nestrov), Rough Crossing (Molnar), Dalliance (Schnitzler), The Seagull (Chekov), and Henry IV (Pirandello), and has translated Lorca’s House of Bernarda Alba and Vaclav Havel’s Largo Desolato. His radio plays include “If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank,” “Albert’s Bridge” (Italia Prize), “M is for Moon Among Other Things,” “The Dissolution of Dominic Boot,” “Where are They Now?,” “Artist Descending a Staircase,” “The Dog it Was That Died,” and “In the Native State.” For television he wrote “Professional Foul” (BAFTA and Broadcasting Press Guild Awards), among many others. Mr. Stoppard has written screenplays for Despair, The Romantic Englishwoman, The Human Factor, Brazil, Empire of the Sun, The Russia House, Billy Bathgate, and Shakespeare in Love (Academy, Golden Globe, Broadcast Film Critics, and American Guild Awards for Best Screenplay). He directed and wrote the screenplay for the film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Mr. Stoppard is a CBE and was knighted in 1997. He was honored by the French Government in 1997 when he was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.