Timberlake Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque country and lives in London. She is one of the UK’s leading playwrights and her work is performed worldwide. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Olivier Award and the New York Drama Critics Award for Our Country’s Good and a Writers’ Guild Award for Three Birds Alighting on a Field. Jefferson’s Garden, which won the 2016 Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play, premiered at Watford Palace Theatre and opened in Washington in January 2018.

Her recent translation of Little Brother by Amets Arzallus and Ibrahima Balde from the Basque won a Pen Translation Award and she is currently working on an adaptation of Little Brother for the stage. In 2023 Timberlake’s adaptation of  Henri-Pierre Roché’s autobiographical novel Jules et Jim saw its world premiere at Jermyn Street theatre starring Patricia Allison.

Timberlake has also undertaken many adaptations for radio including Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

Plays include: Winter Hill, My Father Odysseus,  We Sell Right, The Ant and the Cicada, The Love of the Nightingale, Our Ajax, The Line, Galileo’s Daughter, Credible Witness, The Break of the Day, Three Birds Alighting On A Field, The Grace Of Mary Traverse, Abel’s Sister, The Ash Girl and After Darwin.Translations include: Britannicus, Elektra, Hippolytus, Hecuba, The Thebans, Wild Orchids, False Admissions, Mephisto and Filumena.