Oliver Emanuel
Oliver Emanuel (born 4 April 1980) is a British playwright and radio dramatist. His play Daniel and Mary received a Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama in 2010.[1] His play Dragon won Best Show For Children and Young People at the UK Theatre Awards in 2014.[2] His English version of Titus won the People's Choice Victor Award in 2015 at IPAY.[3] His play A History of Paper was shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award 2017,[4] When The Pips Stop won the Tinniswood Award in 2019,[5] and The Truth About Hawaii won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Series or Serial in 2019.[6]
Oliver Emanuel was born in Kent, attended St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School in Tunbridge Wells, studied English and Theatre Studies at University of Leeds (1998–2001) before going on to take the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (2001–02). His late mother was a drama teacher and his father is a lawyer.[7] He was Writer-on-Attachment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2006 and Writer-in-Residence for BBC Radio 4 Children in Need in 2010. He has lived in Glasgow since 2006. He is Reader of Playwriting at the University of St Andrews, an Associate Playwright at Playwrights' Studio Scotland, and Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library.[8]
In addition to his radio and stage plays below, Oliver Emanuel has written two plays for Polmont Young Offenders Institute, Ship of Shadows (October 2009) and John (7 May 2010), and scripted the short film This Way Up.
Radio plays
Theatre
Short stories
- Nude [93]
Other work
- Desperate Run [94]
References
- ^ a b Sony Radio Academy Awards – Official site (not currently useful!)
Sony Radio Academy Awards – Diversity website (temporary substitute)
Sony Radio Academy Awards nominees, The Telegraph, 8 April 2010 - ^ UK Theatre Awards 2014 winners announced, The Stage, 19 October 2014
- ^ International Associaton of Performing Arts for Youth – Victor Award
- ^ a b Tinniswood Award 2017 – Society of Authors and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
- ^ a b Tinniswood Award 2019 – Society of Authors and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
- ^ a b c BBC Audio Drama Awards – 2019 Winners
- ^ A Scottish play that remembers the forgotten stories of WWI deserters – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 5 January 2016
- ^ What’s the Big Idea? – Playwrights' Studio Scotland
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Joseph and Joseph
- ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Daniel and Mary
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Reading – Elvis In Prestwick
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play – The Vanishing
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Children in Need: Everything
- ^ BBC – The Wire – One Night In Iran
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Reading – One Hundred and Forty Characters: Songbirds
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Ancient Greek
- ^ BBC – From Fact to Fiction – Thirteen Minutes in Cairo
- ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Other One
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Spare Room
- ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Albion Street
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Take Me to the Necropolis
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.3. Food
- ^ Adapting Emile Zola for BBC Radio 4 – Oliver Emanuel, BBC writers room, 27 November 2015
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.4. Politics
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.5. Drink
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – A History of Paper
- ^ The History of 'A History of Paper' (or three lessons about radio drama) – Kirsty Williams, BBC writers room, 24 January 2017
- ^ Script: A History of Paper by Oliver Emanuel
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 3.7. Performance
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.2. Power
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 3.7. Fate
- ^ BBC Sounds – "We've run out of books!" – Oliver Emanuel on making up an episode...
- ^ BBC Audio Drama Awards – 2017 Winners
- ^ BBC – The Poet and the Echo – Transformations
- ^ BBC – 15 Minute Drama – The Truth About Hawaii
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – (After) Fear
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – When The Pips Stop
- ^ Gemini – The Scotsman, 14 August 2001
- ^ Iz, Edinburgh Festival, Pleasance Theatre – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 22 August 2003
- ^ Shiver, Edinburgh Festival, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh – Maddy Costa, The Guardian, 18 August 2006
- ^ Bella and the Beautiful Knight – Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 24 August 2005
- ^ Theatre: Bella and the Beautiful Knight, Tron, Glasgow 3/5 – Keith Bruce, The Herald, 5 May 2006
- ^ Theatre Preview, Magpie Park, Leeds – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 19 May 2007
- ^ Magpie Park, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds – Alfred Hickling, The Guardian, 26 May 2007
- ^ Magpie Park – Kevin Berry, The Stage, 24 May 2007
- ^ BBC – Leeds – Entertainment – Parklife
- ^ Man Across The Way – The Scotsman, 9 August 2007
- ^ Man Across The Way – Gerald Berkowitz, The Stage, 17 August 2007
- ^ Theatre: From war abroad to a war at home – The Scotsman, 10 April 2008
- ^ Videotape, Oran Mor, Glasgow – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 16 October 2008
- ^ Theatre review: One night in Iran, Glasgow – The Scotsman, 22 March 2011
- ^ Theatre review: Spirit of Adventure, Glasgow – The Herald, 15 February 2012
- ^ The Stage - 5 Dec 2014
- ^ Imaginate 2015 Festival Programme
- ^ The Lost Things by Tortoise in a Nutshell and Oliver Emanuel
- ^ A perfectly formed immersive puppet show from Tortoise in a Nutshell – Claire Wood, The Wee Review, 12 August 2018
- ^ The Lost Things – Katie Rose, Broadway Baby, 12 August 2018
- ^ Theatre Review: The Lost Things – Peter Callaghan, Reviewsphere, 17 April 2019
- ^ Prom – A Play, a Pie and a Pint
- ^ PPP: Prom – Hugh Simpson, All Edinburgh Theatre, 29 March 2016
- ^ The 306: Dawn – National Theatre of Scotland
- ^ The 306: Dawn, the play that honours First World War soldiers shot for desertion – Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman, 23 May 2016
- ^ Theatre review: The 306: Dawn, Dalcrue, Perthshire – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 30 May 2016
- ^ Theatre Review: The 306: Dawn, Dalcrue Farm, Perth – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 30th May 2016
- ^ Theatre: The 306: Dawn at Dalcrue Farm, Perthshire – Allan Radcliffe, The Times, 1 June 2016
- ^ The 306: Day – National Theatre of Scotland
- ^ Theatre review: The 306: Day – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 9 May 2017
- ^ Theatre review: The 306: Day, Station Hotel, Perth – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 8 May 2017
- ^ Theatre: The 306: Day at Station Hotel, Perth – Allan Radcliffe, The Times, 16 May 2017
- ^ Flight – Vox Motus
- ^ EIF 2017: Flight, Church Hill Theatre & Studio, Review – Irene Brown, Edinburgh Guide, 5 August 2017
- ^ Flight review – miniature models tell epic refugee story – Michael Billington, The Guardian, 6 Aug 2017
- ^ Festival Theatre: Flight, Churchill Theatre – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 6 August 2017
- ^ Theatre review: Flight – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 7 August 2017
- ^ Flight review at Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh – ‘deeply important and innovative’ – Anna Winter, The Stage, 7 August 2017
- ^ Edinburgh International Festival Review: Flight – Dylan Taylor, All Edinburgh Theatre, 11 August 2017
- ^ Theatre – Birds and prey – Tableaux of hardship and loss – Anna Aslanyan, The Times Literary Supplement, 18 August 2017
- ^ Edinburgh theatre review: Flight – Susannah Clapp, The Observer, 20 August 2017
- ^ Review: ‘Flight’ Has No Live Actors. But Its Story of Two Afghan Boys Feels So Real – Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times, 12 February 2018
- ^ Flight – McKittrick Hotel, New York
- ^ Flight – Melbourne International Arts Festival
- ^ Flight – Brighton Festival
- ^ Flight – ASU Gammage
- ^ The 306: Dusk – National Theatre of Scotland
- ^ Theatre review: The 306: Dusk, Perth Theatre – The Scotsman, 25 October 2018
- ^ Theatre review: The 306: Dusk at Perth Theatre – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 15 October 2018
- ^ Theatre review: The 306: Dusk, Perth Theatre – Allan Radcliffe, The Times, 15 October 2018
- ^ The Monstrous Heart by Oliver Emanuel – Traverse Theatre
- ^ The Monstrous Heart review – blood, fury and a talking dead bear – Miriam Gillinson, The Guardian, 10 October 2019
- ^ The Monstrous Heart review at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – ‘overwrought and awkward’ – Fergus Morgan, The Stage, 24 October 2019
- ^ Theatre reviews: The Monstrous Heart, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 25 October 2019
- ^ Review: The Monstrous Heart, Traverse, Edinburgh, Four stars – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 25 October 2019
- ^ "Nude by Oliver Emanuel". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ Desperate Run