His plays are performed across the world, Bouncers (1977) being the most popular. In 2005 he won two British Academy Children's Awards for Oddsquad, written and directed on location in Hull and screened by BBC children's television. A 1993 survey for Plays and Players magazine cited Godber as the third most performed playwright in the UK, after Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. While he was at Minsthorpe he taught future actors Adrian Hood ( Preston Front, Up 'n' Under film) and Chris Walker ( Doctors, Coronation Street). īefore venturing into plays, he was head of drama at Minsthorpe High School, the school he had attended as a student, and then wrote for the TV series Brookside and Grange Hill. Godber, born in Upton, West Riding of Yorkshire, trained as a teacher of drama at Bretton Hall College, which is affiliated to the University of Leeds, and became artistic director of Hull Truck Theatre Company in 1984. He has been creative director of the Theatre Royal Wakefield since 2011. The Plays and Players Yearbook of 1993 rated him the third most performed playwright in the UK after William Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn.
John Harry Godber OBE (born ) is known mainly for observational comedies. John Gobder while director of Hull Truck Theatre, 1992