John Willett

Personal Information

John Willett was a British translator and a scholar who studied music and stage design at the Manchester College of Art and Dance. Willett began his career as a theatre designer, but became a freelance writer, an editor and translator, a theatre director, and a visiting professor and lecturer after serving in WWII. He was respected in academic circles for his patient work and careful research in translation, especially in German culture and politics. Willett worked on English translations for many of Brecht's plays, including Life of Galileo, Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and Mother Courage and Her Children.

Credits

Author

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Mother Courage and Her Children	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	01/19/2016	Translator
2	Good Person of Szechwan	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall	10/29/2013	Translator
3	Cabaret Verboten	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	10/23/1991	Translator
4	The Threepenny Opera	Delacorte Theater	06/28/1977	Translation

Awards

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival	Mother Courage and Her Children	Translator
2	WON	2014 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival	Good Person of Szechwan	Translator