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David Wood, OBE, is best known as ‘the national children’s dramatist’ (The Times). His many plays and adaptations, including Roald Dahl’s THE BFG, THE WITCHES, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, Dick King-Smith’s BABE, THE SHEEP-PIG and Judith Kerr’s THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA, are performed worldwide. After Chichester High School, David got (just) a BA in English at Worcester College, Oxford, then became a professional actor and writer.
He began writing children’s books when publisher Liz Attenborough suggested he might adapt his play THE GINGERBREAD MAN. He is a member of the Inner Magic Circle and the Chair of Action for Children’s Arts. He often writes his own songs for his plays and sometimes directs them too. Married to actress/embroiderer Jacqueline Stanbury, they have two grown-up daughters, Katherine and Rebecca.
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