Timberlake Wertenbaker

Timberlake Wertenbaker is a playwright. American by birth, she was brought up in France and lives in Britain. Credible Witness, her most recent play, which is about asylum seekers in a British detention centre, was premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2001. Her other plays include Our Country’s Good, Abel’s Sister, The Grace of Mary Traverse, Three Birds Alighting in a Field, The Love of a Nightingale and After Darwin.