Stephen Briggs
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| Name | Stephen Briggs, aka cmotdibbler |
| Race | Human |
| Age | b. 1951 CE |
| Occupation | Renaissance Man |
| Physical appearance | Rather like the Patrician |
| Residence | Oxford, England |
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| Marital Status | married |
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Dramatist, thespian, lexicographer, encyclopedist, illustrator, cartographer and huckster to the Discworld community, the busy Mr. Briggs dramatises Discworld books for the stage and performs in the resulting plays, specialising in the role of the Patrician. He has provided the voices of Discworld (and Nome) characters in more than twenty recordings. He has compiled reference books and plotted the various Mapps of Discworld, and once operated a Web store, cmotdibbler.com, selling a range of Discworld items. (However, cmotdibbler has not been available for some time. Lord Vetinari informs us by omniscope that he is "experiencing problems with technology".1)
In his spare time, he maintained his regular job in the civil service for many years (confirming our suspicions about the civil service) but he now describes himself as a former civil servant. He was born in Oxford and lives there still.
(1)Or he may have sold the wrong sausage to the wrong customer...
“My involvement in Discworld came about almost by accident. I was (still am) a keen member of an amateur drama club and I had adapted Monty Python's Life of Brian and Holy Grail, and Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape for the stage. While looking for a new project, someone suggested that I might like to try the works of Terry Pratchett - and my life passed into another leg of the trousers of time!”
Books
- The Discworld Companion, with Terry Pratchett
- The New Discworld Companion, with Terry Pratchett
- Turtle Recall, with Terry Pratchett
- Guards! Guards! A Discworld Graphic Novel, with Terry Pratchett and Graham Higgins
- Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, with Terry Pratchett, Tina Hannan and Paul Kidby
Stage Adaptations
Many of Briggs’ scripts have been published; the publisher is given in brackets where this is the case. Amateur performance rights are handled through Colin Smythe for plays published by Corgi and Oxford University Press, and through the publishers for other plays. See the dramatic adaptations page on Colin’s website for details.
- Mort (Corgi/Transworld)
- Wyrd Sisters (Corgi/Transworld)
- Guards! Guards! (Corgi/Transworld)
- Men at Arms (Corgi/Transworld)
- Maskerade (Samuel French)
- Carpe Jugulum (Samuel French)
- Interesting Times (Methuen Plays)
- Jingo (Methuen Plays)
- The Fifth Elephant (Methuen Plays)
- Night Watch (Methuen Plays)
- Going Postal (Methuen Plays)
- The Truth (Methuen Plays)
- Monstrous Regiment (Methuen Plays)
- The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Oxford University Press)
- Johnny and the Dead (Oxford University Press)
- Dodger (Oxford Playscripts)
- Feet of Clay (Oberon Modern Plays)
- Making Money (Samuel French)
- Unseen Academicals (Oberon Modern Plays)
- The Rince Cycle (Oberon Modern Plays)
- Lords and Ladies (Methuen Plays)
- Hogfather (Methuen Plays)
- The Shakespeare Codex....Methuen Plays
- Murder in Ankh-Morpork
Maps
Audiobooks
All published by Isis Books in the UK, and some by Harper Audio in the US.
- The Last Hero
- Eric
- The Fifth Elephant
- The Fifth Elephant
- The Truth
- Monstrous Regiment
- Night Watch
- Going Postal
- Thud!
- Making Money
- The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
- The Wee Free Men
- A Hat Full of Sky
- Wintersmith
- Truckers
- Diggers
- Wings
Diaries and other books
- Discworld's Unseen University Diary 1998
- Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary 1999
- Discworld's Assassins' Guild Diary 2000
- Discworld Fools' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2001
- Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002
- Discworld (Reformed) Vampyres' Diary 2003
- The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook & Diary 2007
- Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment 2008
- Terry Pratchett: HisWorld A Brief Guide to Discworld