Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British playwright and translator.

Prizes and awards

• 1985 Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award The Grace of Mary Traverse
• 1988 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright Our Country's Good
• 1988 Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play Our Country's Good
• 1989 Eileen Anderson Central Television Drama Award The Love of the Nightingale
• 1990 Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play (New York) Our Country's Good
• 1991 Critics' Circle Award for Best West End Play (London) Three Birds Alighting on a Field
• 1992 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Three Birds Alighting on a Field
• 1992 Writers' Guild Award (Best West End Play) Three Birds Alighting on a Field

Works

• The Grace of Mary Traverse, 1985.
• Mephisto by Ariane Mnouchkine (translator), 1986.
• Five Plays by Jean Anouilh (including Leocadio) translator, 1987.
• Our Country's Good, 1988.
• 'False Admissions; Successful Strategies; La Dispute: Three Plays by Marivaux (translator), 1989.
• The Love of the Nightingale, 1989.
• The Thebans by Sophocles (translator), 1992.
• Three Birds Alighting on a Field, 1992.
• The Break of Day, 1995.
• After Darwin, 1998.
• Filumena by Eduardo de Filippo (translator), 1998.
• The Ash Girl (adaptation of "Cinderella"), 2000.
• Credible Witness, 2001.