Stephen Briggs
My involvement in Discworld came about almost by accident. I was (still am) a keen member of an amateur drama club and I had adapted Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ and ‘Holy Grail’, and Tom Sharpe’s ‘Porterhouse Blue’ and ‘Blott on the Landscape’ for the stage. While looking for a new project, someone suggested that I might like to try the works of Terry Pratchett – and my life passed into another leg of the trousers of time!
Terry Pratchett attended my drama club’s production of ‘Wyrd Sisters’ in 1991 and gave us permission to adapt ‘Mort’. While working on ‘Mort’, I suggested to Terry that a ‘Companion’ to Discworld might be fun and found myself working on it via a circuitous route taking in a map of Ankh-Morpork along the way.
From there, my involvement in Discworld blossomed. Terry and I have collaborated on a number of projects, I’ve adapted ten of Terry’s books for the stage and they are now produced by amateur groups all over the world. The royalties from productions of the plays have so far raised over £50,000 for the Orangutan Foundation. I've also recorded fourteen of Terry's novels for the UK audio publishers, Isis, and also five for the US publisher, Harper Audio - I even won a US industry award for one of them.
Contact Information
sbriggs@cix.co.uk
Contact for information about Discworld merchandise, licensing productions of Discworld plays and enquiries about Discworld productions by the Studio Theatre Club in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
www.stephenbriggs.com
Stephen Briggs, P.O. Box 1486, Oxford, OX4 9DQ
Biographical Information
Born 1951 in Oxford. Parents both from Cumbria. Father originally an iron ore miner but moved to Oxford in the 1930s. I was educated at St Christopher’s CofE School and Southfield (later Oxford) Grammar School. After school I worked for a short time for the Bodleian Library before joining the civil service, where I’ve worked ever since.
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