Since its inception in 1988, the Beckett International Foundation has had a distinguished list of patrons who have lent their support to the engagement with and study of the works of Samuel Beckett at the University of Reading
Existing Patrons
- Walter Asmus
- Paul Auster
- John Banville
- Edward Beckett
- Dr J. M. Coetzee
- Professor S. E. Gontarski
- Grey Gowrie
- John Haynes
- Nora Hickey M’Sichili, Directrice of the Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris
- Emeritus Professor James Knowlson OBE
- Barry McGovern
- His Excellency Dan Mulhall
- Professor Andrew Renton
- Tom Stoppard CBE
- Erika Tophoven
- Ulla Unseld-Berkewicz
- Professor Robert Van de Noort, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading
Past Patrons
- Edward Albee
- Anne Atik
- Louis Le Brocquy
- John Calder
- Professor Ruby Cohn
- Professor Martin Esslin OBE
- Matthew Evans
- Brian Friel
- Sir Joseph Gold
- Sir Peter Hall CBE
- Seamus Heaney
- Jocelyn Herbert ARCA
- Jérôme Lindon
- Anthony Minghella
- Charles Monteith
- Caroline (Beckett) Murphy
- Harold Pinter CBE
- Barney Rosset
- Dorothy Tutin CBE
- Dr Siegfried Unseld
- Billie Whitelaw CBE