Stephen Jeffreys

John Stephen Gerrard Jeffreys[1] (22 April 1950 – 17 September 2018)[2] was a British playwright and playwriting teacher.

Jeffreys attended the Stationers' Company's School before going to University of Southampton, graduating with an English literature degree in 1972.

[4] His first play, Like Dolls or Angels (1977), won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award at the National Student Drama Festival.

Starting in 1994, he worked as Literary Associate for the Royal Court Theatre for eleven years, contributing to the development of plays such as Mojo by Jez Butterworth.

[2] Here, he also gave playwriting workshops, which were attended by playwrights such as Simon Stephens, Roy Williams and April De Angelis.