Awards & Winners

Joe Orton

Date of Birth 01-January-1933
Place of Birth Leicester
(United Kingdom, England, East Midlands, Leicestershire)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as John Kingsley Orton, John Kingsley ("Joe") Orton
Profession Writer, Playwright
John Kingsley "Joe" Orton was an English playwright and author. His public career was short but prolific, lasting from 1964 until his death three years later. During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. The adjective Ortonesque is sometimes used to refer to work characterised by a similarly dark yet farcical cynicism.

Awards by Joe Orton

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joe Orton.

1970


Obie Award for Best Foreign Play
Honored for : What the Butler Saw