Torben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before training and working as an actor. Works include: The Unconquered, which won the award for Best New Play 2007 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland ; A Listening Heaven, nominated for Best New Play at the 2001 TMA Awards; Lie of the Land, nominated for Edinburgh Fringe First Award, 2008 (Edinburgh Pleasance/Arcola); Clockwatching (Orange Tree Theatre); The Company Man; The Biggleswades; Five Visions of the Faithful; The Lunatic Queen; The Error of Their Ways (HERE Arts Center, New York); The Swing of Things.

‘Betts has caught the mood of the times... The only mystery about Torben Betts is why his perceptive social commentaries are not better known.’

Torben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before training and working as an actor. Works include: The Unconquered, which won the award for Best New Play 2007 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland ; A Listening Heaven, nominated for Best New Play at the 2001 TMA Awards; Lie of the Land, nominated for Edinburgh Fringe First Award, 2008 (Edinburgh Pleasance/Arcola); Clockwatching (Orange Tree Theatre); The Company Man; The Biggleswades; Five Visions of the Faithful; The Lunatic Queen; The Error of Their Ways (HERE Arts Center, New York); The Swing of Things.

‘Betts has caught the mood of the times... The only mystery about Torben Betts is why his perceptive social commentaries are not better known.’