David Wood
David Wood OBE is an actor, writer, playwright, composer and magician. He appeared on stage opposite Sir Michael Redgrave in A Voyage Round My Father and in After Haggerty for the Royal Shakespeare Company. On television he appeared in everything from classic serials and The New Avengers, to Jackanory and Play Away. Perhaps best known as 'the national children's dramatist' (The Times), his 75 plays for children have been performed worldwide. They include The Gingerbread Man, The See-Saw Tree,...See more
David Wood OBE is an actor, writer, playwright, composer and magician. He appeared on stage opposite Sir Michael Redgrave in A Voyage Round My Father and in After Haggerty for the Royal Shakespeare Company. On television he appeared in everything from classic serials and The New Avengers, to Jackanory and Play Away. Perhaps best known as 'the national children's dramatist' (The Times), his 75 plays for children have been performed worldwide. They include The Gingerbread Man, The See-Saw Tree, eight Roald Dahl adaptations including The BFG and The Witches, the Olivier Award-winning Goodnight Mister Tom (from Michelle Magorian's classic novel), and the Olivier Award-nominated The Tiger Who Came to Tea (from Judith Kerr's iconic picture book). He wrote the screenplay of the 1974 film Swallows and Amazons. His grown-up musical, The Go-Between (from LP Hartley's novel), co-written with Richard Taylor and starring Michael Crawford, played at London West End's Apollo Theatre in 2016. See less
