Peter Shaffer screenplay for "Equus", he was nominated for the 1977 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar but the award went to Alvin Sargent, who wrote the screenplay for "Julia". For writing the screenplay for "Amadeus", Shaffer received both the 1984 Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the 1984 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. Shaffer was homosexual but did not write explicitly about it. His boyfriend Robert Leonard died in 1990. Shaffer died on June 6, 2016, at the age of ninety while on a trip to the south-west of Ireland. He co-wrote three detective novels with his brother Anthony Shaffer under the pseudonym "Peter Antony".
Alan Harris collaboration with United States composer Mark Swanson. Radio plays include The Gold Farmer for BBC Radio 3's The Wire season and plays for BBC Radio 4. His debut stage play, Orange, was commissioned and produced by Sgript Cymru. He is the winner of a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales and represented by Nick Quinn at The Agency, London. Alan Harris Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright. Has written plays for theatres throughout the United Kingdom, including Paines Plough and National Theatre Wales. He won a Judges’ Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for his play How