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Ed Harris (Playwright)[edit]
Ed Harris is a playwright, radio dramatist, comedy writer, librettist, poet and performer[1] based in Brighton.
Early Life[edit]
Ed Harris grew up in West London and attended Drayton Manor High School and Twyford Church of England School in Acton. After finishing high school, Ed worked as a bin man and later a careworker, as well as travelling and working abroad, including waiting tables in Turkey and training huskies in Kiruna, Sweden.
Ed Harris received his first theatrical commission after being ‘discovered’ at a poetry gig he performed at in Brighton in 2002. [2]
Career[edit]
Ed Harris has written extensively for BBC Radio Drama and Comedy. His first radio play Porshia was produced in 2007 and starred Robert Webb[3].
Ed’s first play, Never Ever After was shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 2008[4].
Ed’s first major play Mongrel Island was commissioned by Soho Theatre[5] and opened Steve Marmion’s first season as Artistic Director in July 2011. It was later produced in Mexico City in 2014 as Perro Sin Raza [6], directed by Fernando Rozvar.
Ed’s The Cow Play was revived for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [7]
Ed’s first play for children, What The Thunder Said won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Children’s Play 2017.[8]
Between 2011 and 2015 he won a Sony Gold Radio Academy Award for his series The Resistance Of Mrs Brown, a Writers' Guild Award for Troll[9] and a BBC Audio Drama Award for Billions[10] As well as many stand-alone plays, Harris has written numerous series, including an adaption of Franz Kafka’s The Castle[11]
Harris also wrote and starred in the semi-autobiographical play, The Slow Kapow[12]. He is also the writer of DOT[13] , a sitcom that follows the exploits of some of the female staff in the Cabinet War Rooms during the Second World War, starring Fenella Woolgar , Kate O’Flynn , Freya Parker, Jane Slavin and David Acton.
Ed Harris is also a published poet. [14]
In 2018, Ed wrote the libretto for a new opera A Shoe Full Of Stars for Opera Schmopera with composer Omar Shahryar. [15]
Awards[edit]
WHAT THE THUNDER SAID - Writers' Guild Award for Best Children’s Play[16] (2017)
BILLIONS - BBC Audio Drama Award (2014)
THE RESISTANCE OF MRS BROWN - Radio Academy Award (2011)
TROLL - Writers' Guild Award (2011)
NEVER EVER AFTER - shortlisted Meyer-Whitworth Award (2008)
References[edit]
- ^ "Berlin Associates"
- ^ "Never Ever After, Review"
- ^ "Porshia"
- ^ "Interview, Hotbed"
- ^ Mongrel Island At Soho Theatre
- ^ Secteria De Cultura, "Perro Sin Raza" 23rd October 2015. Retrieved on Wednesday 23rd May 2018
- ^ "Fringe Review"
- ^ "What the Thunder Said" The Guardian. March 25th 2014. Retrieved on Wednesday 23rd May 2018
- ^ "Writers Guild Awards, 2011"
- ^ "BBC Audio Drama award winners 2014"
- ^ "Ed Harris, The Castle"
- ^ Ed Harris, The Slow Kapow. BBC, 2017.
- ^ "Radio Times, DOT"
- ^ "Ed Harris Poetry"
- ^ "A Shoe Full Of Stars"
- ^ "Writers Guild Award winners"