Oberon Books

• Name — Oberon Books • Parent — Bloomsbury Publishing • Founded — 1985 • Founder — James Hogan • Country — United Kingdom • Headquarters — Islington, London • Distribution — Marston Book Services (UK) Theatre Communications Group (United States) Currency Press (Australia) • Publications — Books • Topics — Drama and performing arts • Numemployees — 10 • Url — oberonbooks.com

Oberon Books was founded by James Hogan in 1985. Two of its titles are poet Adrian Mitchell's 1998 stage adaptation of C. S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for the Royal Shakespeare Company and One Man, Two Guvnors (Richard Bean's modern version of Carlo Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters), a West End and Broadway hit for Britain's National Theatre in 2011 starring James Corden. The NT Live recording of the latter was scheduled to be shown on PBS in late 2020. As of August 2019 the company has 1600 titles in print, most available as both print and e-books. As well as new plays, Oberon also publishes classic works by playwrights such as J. B. Priestley, Sir Arnold Wesker and Henrik Ibsen. Oberon's mission expanded to include publishing a "culturally and politically diverse" range of plays. Recent examples include Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams, The HIV Monologues by Patrick Cash and Chewing Gum Dreams by Michaela Coel. In December 2019, Oberon Books was acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing to join its longstanding play and performance imprints Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare.

• Abi Morgan • Oladipo Agboluaje • Howard Barker • Neil Bartlett • Richard Bean • Torben Betts • Ranjit Bolt • Tim Crouch • Will Eno • Alex Finlayson • Lara Foot • Jon Fosse • John Fraser • Christopher Fry • Pam Gems • A. C. Grayling • Stephen Adly Guirgis • Tanika Gupta • Sir Peter Hall • Dennis Kelly • Nicolas Kent • Arthur Kopit • Bernard Kops • Bryony Lavery • Nell Leyshon • John Logan • Robert David MacDonald • Mustapha Matura • Glyn Maxwell • Sheridan Morley • Dominique Morisseau • Virginia McKenna • Dorota Masłowska • Douglas Maxwell • John Mortimer • Richard Norton-Taylor • Meredith Oakes • Tamsin Oglesby • John Osborne • Gary Owen • Julia Pascal • Michael Pennington • Barry Reckord • Anya Reiss • Roland Schimmelpfennig • Roy Smiles • Ade Solanke • Aurin Squire • Laura Wade • Anne Washburn • Sir Arnold Wesker • Anna Zeigler

Oberon also publishes plays from the following theatre companies: • Kneehigh Theatre • Complicite • OperaUpClose • Out of Joint • The Red Room Theatre Company

In September 2008 two early playscripts by John Osborne, previously thought to be lost, were discovered in the British Library's archives. Both plays predated Look Back in Anger and were published together for the first time by Oberon Books, as Before Anger.