Ben Brown is a British playwright. He was educated at

Highgate School Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is a co-educational, fee-charging, private day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate Pre-Preparato ...

. When interviewed about '' The Promise'', his 2010 play about the

Balfour Declaration The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman regio ...

, he said that he had grown up in North London with a non-observant Jewish father.

Works

*''Larkin With Women'', (2000) a portrait of

Philip Larkin Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, '' The North Ship'', was published in 1945, followed by two novels, '' Jill'' (1946) and '' A Girl in Winter'' (194 ...

and his love-lives which won the TMA Best New Play award that year * ''All Things Considered'', (1996) a black comedy about philosophy and suicide *'' The Promise'' (2010), about the Balfour Declaration * ''Three Days in May'', (2011) a drama concentrating on Winston Churchill's darkest hours in the early parts of the Second World War *''A Splinter of Ice'', (2020) a drama that reconstructs the meeting between spy

Kim Philby Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 191211 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that had divulged British secr ...

and author

Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a re ...

in Moscow in 1987 * ''The End of the Night'', (2022) a drama about the release of Jews from internment camps at the end of the Second World War

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British dramatists and playwrights Living people People educated at Highgate School British male dramatists and playwrights Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-playwright-stub