Stephen Wakelam is an English writer and playwright born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
[1] After Cambridge University, he was an English Teacher and Head of Department in South Yorkshire until he became a full-time writer in 1976.
[1] He has written over forty performed plays, at first mainly in television then primarily on radio.
Wakelam was The Royal Literary Society Writer in Residence at universities in Leeds and Kent, 2009-12.
[1] From January 2015 he is Writer in Residence at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham.