Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2024, 90 full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.

12 April 1939

Born on the same birth date (12 April 1939): Johnny Raper

Born on the same birth day (12 April): Benoît de Maillet • David Thirdkill • Ed O'Neill • George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen • Hitomi Yoshizawa • John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham • Lee Jong-wook • Lee Soo-young • Luiz Adriano • Magnus Pääjärvi • Nikolay Przhevalsky • Pedro Cachín

Born in the same month (April 1939): Bill Hagerty (journalist) • Crispian St. Peters • David Winters (choreographer) • Glen Hardin • Jorge Fons • Martin J. Schreiber • Marvin Gaye • Michael Learned • Reni Santoni • Ronnie White • Theo Waigel • Trina Schart Hyman • Veronica Sutherland