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Stephen Brown is an English dramatist.

Life and career
Brown attended Eton College, Jesus College, Cambridge and the University of Sussex.

He was Publisher of Prospect (Magazine)⎮Prospect Magazine and reviewed theatre for Radio 4, the TLS and the Guardian.

In 2003, he wrote the script for Filter Theatre's Faster, based on the James Gleick book of the same name. After running at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, this toured nationally and internationally.

In 2007, his play Future Me, which dramatised the prison treatment of a successful lawyer convicted of sex offenses, was produced at Theatre 501. It was subsequently produced in Berkeley and New York, and toured England with Coronation Street's Rupert Hill. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article6018150.ece

He was subsequently commissioned by the National Theatre to write a play about Rene Descartes, and to adapt Occupational Hazards, Rory Stewart's memoir of his experiences as a senior coalition official in Afghanistan.