Michael McMillan (born 1962) is a British playwright, artist/curator and educator, born in England to parents who were migrants from St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG).
 As an academic, he focuses his research on "the creative process, ethnography, oral histories, material culture and performativity".
 He is the author of several plays, and as an artist is best known for his first installation, "The West Indian Front Room", which was exhibited with great success in 2005, attracting more than 35,000 visitors in its initial outing at the Geffrye Museum, and going on to inspire a BBC Four documentary called "Tales from the Front Room" (2007), a website a 2009 book, "The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home", and various international commissions, such as "Van Huis Uit: The Living Room of Migrants in the Netherlands" (Imagine IC, Amsterdam, and Netherlands Tour, 2007–08) and "A Living Room Surrounded by Salt" (IBB, Curaçao, 2008).
 A more recent installation of the Walter Rodney Bookshop featured as part of the 2015 exhibition "No Colour Bar" at the Guildhall Art Gallery.
The Maid of the Oaks is a comedy play by the British playwright and soldier General John Burgoyne, known as Gentleman Johnny.
 It was originally written in celebration of the forthcoming marriage of Edward Smith-Stanley, heir to the earldom of Derby, and Lady Elizabeth (Betty) Hamilton, daughter of the late James Hamilton, 6th Duke Hamilton and Brandon.
 Burgoyne was the uncle of the groom and in charge of the lavish masquerade and garden fête, which took place at Lord Stanley's hunting lodge, The Oaks near Epsom, Surrey.
Steve Waters is a British playwright.
 He was born in Coventry, UK.
 He studied English at Oxford University, taught in secondary schools and was a graduate of David Edgar's MA in Playwriting in 1993, a course which he later ran for several years.
 He has written about the pedagogy of playwriting, contributed articles to The Guardian, essays to "The Blackwell Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama" and "The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter", and has written a book entitled, "The Secret Life of Plays" (2010).
Rough Crossing is a 1984 comedic play by British playwright Tom Stoppard, "freely adapted from Ferenc Molnár's "Play at the Castle"".
 Set on board the SS "Italian Castle", it follows world-renowned playwrights Sandor Turai and Alex Gal in their attempts to preserve, with the assistance of the unorthodox cabin steward Dvornichek, the relationship of their composer, Adam Adam, and his love, the leading lady Natasha Navratilova, despite the interference of lothario actor Ivor Fish.
Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997.
 He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as "Arcadia", "The Coast of Utopia", "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour", "Professional Foul", "The Real Thing", and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead".
 He co-wrote the screenplays for "Brazil", "The Russia House", and "Shakespeare in Love", and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards.
 Themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy.
 Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.
 In 2008 "The Daily Telegraph" ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
Abi Morgan (born 1968) is a British playwright and screenwriter known for her works for television, such as "Sex Traffic" and "The Hour", and the films "Brick Lane", "The Iron Lady", "Shame" and "Suffragette".
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author.
 He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue.
 He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years.
 His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue "Beyond the Fringe" at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame.
 He gave up academia, and turned to writing full-time, his first stage play "Forty Years On" being produced in 1968.
Helen Blakeman (born 1971) is a British playwright and screenwriter from Liverpool.
 She has written three plays.
 "Caravan", her first, was written while she studied at Birmingham University and won her the George Devine award.
 Her second play, "Normal", was followed by an entrance into screenwriting. "
Pleasureland" is a 2003 television film about teen sexuality, for which Blakeman was nominated for the British Academy Television Craft Award for best new writer in 2003, after which Blakeman wrote her third and most recent play, "The Morris".
 In 2008, she wrote the screenplay for the award-winning television film "Dustbin Baby", which was well received by critics, and for which she won the British Academy Children's Award for best writer.
The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings.
 It was written by Alan Bennett, and it tells the true story of his interactions with Mary Shepherd, an elderly woman who lived in a dilapidated van on his driveway in London for 15 years.
 He had previously published the story as a 1989 essay, 1990 book, 1999 stage play, and 2009 radio play on BBC Radio 4.
 Smith had previously portrayed Shepherd twice: in the 1999 stage play, which earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 2000 Olivier Awards and in the 2009 radio adaptation.
Judith: A Parting from the Body is a play by British playwright Howard Barker.
 It premiered in 1992, with British actress Melanie Jessop in the title role, in a production by The Wrestling School.
 The play has since seen revivals on London's fringe theatre circuit, including productions at the Cock Tavern Theatre directed by Robyn Winfield-Smith, and at the Rosemary Branch Theatre directed by Teunkie Van Der Sluijs.

Question: The Lady in the Van was written by a British playwright who atennded what university?
Answer: Oxford University