Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright, notable for work including BBC TV drama Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006), the screenplay for the feature film Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000), and the Joe Orton biographical play Prick Up Your Ears based on John Lahr's book.
[1][2] He wrote the theatre adaptation of A Prayer for Owen Meany (2002), staged at the Royal National Theatre and in America in Washington, Boston, Philadelphia.
[citation needed] Elling (2007) opened at the Bush Theatre with John Simm and Jonathan Cecil[3] and transferred to the Trafalgar Studios; later it was produced in Australia and on Broadway.
[citation needed] Prick Up Your Ears was produced in 2009 at the Comedy Theatre with Matt Lucas.
[citation needed], ELLING, Winner Best Comedy, Whatsonstage Award 2008 https://www.jimmulligan.co.uk/interview/simon-bent-shelter