Won Broadway's 1982 Tony Award as author of Best Play winner "The Life
and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby."
Son of Barrie Edgar and the actress Joan Burman, brother of environmentalist Sarah Edgar, and composer Kate Edgar, and maternal grandson of Isabel Thornton.
He was awarded the 1986 Los Angeles Drama Circle Critics Award for Special Award for translating Dickens' literary classic into a stunning one-in-a-lifetime theatrical experience at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.