Simon Warne
Award-winning writer Simon Warne developed his skills at the Finborough Theatre and later at RADA.
Plays include: Mind the Gap, Double Effect (Finborough), Truth Talks (Southwark Playhouse), Original Spin (New End, Hampstead and Criterion) Wishful Thinking (winner of the London Writers’ Competition 2000) Damaged Good (Etcetera) No Going Back (Tabard) One Night Stand (Hen and Chickens) Out of Office and Out of Office: Behind the Scenes (The Bridewell) Must Have Been The Shirt (April Showers One-Act Play Festival, The Horse) Bed (One-Act Play Festival, Egg Theatre, Bath) and Office Xmas Party (St James Studio).
Musicals include: You’re the Top! A Musical Tribute to Cole Porter, The Two Hermiones (Electric Theatre, Guildford) Rasputin (Greenwich) What You Will (Hampton Hill Playhouse) Stratford Street (Academy for New Musical Theatre workshop, Los Angeles, and Kings Head, London) The ToyBoy Diaries (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester) and Claus the Musical (The Lowry, Salford).
Radio: Arrested Development (Comedy Series: Radio Four) Temperatures Rising (Afternoon Play: Radio Four).
Television: Doctors (BBC) Two original series currently in development.
TAPS Comedy Writer of the Year 2001 for Arrested Development.
Film: Imogen My Mind (short, co-written with Edward Reeve) Currently developing two feature films.
Plays include: Mind the Gap, Double Effect (Finborough), Truth Talks (Southwark Playhouse), Original Spin (New End, Hampstead and Criterion) Wishful Thinking (winner of the London Writers’ Competition 2000) Damaged Good (Etcetera) No Going Back (Tabard) One Night Stand (Hen and Chickens) Out of Office and Out of Office: Behind the Scenes (The Bridewell) Must Have Been The Shirt (April Showers One-Act Play Festival, The Horse) Bed (One-Act Play Festival, Egg Theatre, Bath) and Office Xmas Party (St James Studio).
Musicals include: You’re the Top! A Musical Tribute to Cole Porter, The Two Hermiones (Electric Theatre, Guildford) Rasputin (Greenwich) What You Will (Hampton Hill Playhouse) Stratford Street (Academy for New Musical Theatre workshop, Los Angeles, and Kings Head, London) The ToyBoy Diaries (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester) and Claus the Musical (The Lowry, Salford).
Radio: Arrested Development (Comedy Series: Radio Four) Temperatures Rising (Afternoon Play: Radio Four).
Television: Doctors (BBC) Two original series currently in development.
TAPS Comedy Writer of the Year 2001 for Arrested Development.
Film: Imogen My Mind (short, co-written with Edward Reeve) Currently developing two feature films.
South West (Cornwall & Devon)
Television
DOCTORS
Long-running Drama Series BBC Television
Series XII Script editor Lyn Washbrook
Episode: `An Unexpected Arrival’ Producer: Phil Hunter
Featuring: Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Jo Stone-Fewings, Polly Maberly and Emily Head
Series XI Script editor Lyn Washbrook
Episode: `Dolly Mixtures’ Producer: Fiona Pandelus
Featuring: Selina Chilton, Deddie Davies, Helen Cotterill and Katharine Rogers
Series IX Script editor: Lyn Washbrook
Episode: `Managing Expectations’ Producer: Jonathan Phillips
Featuring: Stephen Boxer, Harvey Virdi, Sakuntala Ramanee and Medhavi Patel
Series VIII Script editor: Lyn Humphreys
Episode: `In the Driving Seat’ Producer: Erika Hossington
Featuring: Adrian Lewis Morgan, Jimmy Akingbola and David Webber
Series VII, Episode: `Relative Stress’ Script editor: Lyn Humphreys
Producer: Carol Harding
Featuring: Corrine Wicks, Amanda Walker, Jacqueline King and Kit Jackson
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Director: Gareth Carrivick
Performed at TAPS Festival 2001 Featuring: Tracy-Ann Oberman, Emma Kennedy, Dave Lamb, Jonathan Kydd, Roger Blake and Joan Blackham
Radio
TEMPERATURES RISING Producer: Peter Kavanagh
45 min afternoon play, BBC Radio 4 Prod Co: BBC Radio Drama
Featuring: Susan Tully, Marcia Warren, Stephen Beresford, Ben Crowe, Liza Sadovy
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Producer: Tracey Neale
4 x 30min comedy series Prod Co: BBC Radio Entertainment, Radio 4 Featuring: Letitia Dean, Susannah Doyle, Phil Cornwell, Julian Rhind Tutt, Maggie MaCarthy
Film
IMOGEN MY MIND (Co-written with Ed Reeve)
20 min Director: Samuel Dore
Featuring: Kelly Godfrey, Hamilton Lee, Kieran Moriarty, Morag Sims
Theatre
CLAUS THE MUSICAL Music and Lyrics: Andy Collyer Director: Kate Golledge Cast: Harry Winchester, Georgie Buckland, Nic Cain, Jazz Evans, Junior Delius, Chris Draper, Emily George, Michael Kholwadia, Jessica Lim, Mari McGinlay, Simon Oskarsson, Corrine Priest, Emily Tang, Alwyne Taylor. The Lowry, Salford.
THE TOY BOY DIARIES Music and Lyrics: Andy Collyer Director: Tania Azevedo Cast: Johanne Murdock, Nicola Blackman, Matt Beveridge, Sharif Afifi, Alistair Higgins Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
BED Director: Cecily Boys
Egg Theatre, Bath: One-Act Play Festival
MUST HAVE BEEN THE SHIRT Director: Matthew Stevens Parker
Featuring: Charlie Hanson, Steve Wickenden
The Horse, Waterloo
Winner First Draft’s April Showers Short Play Festival
OUT OF OFFICE: BEHIND THE SCENES Director: Aileen Gonsalves
Featuring: Sophie Rickman, Nicci Holtby, Jack Lewis and Ed Hulme
The Bridewell Theatre
OUT OF OFFICE Director: Aileen Gonsalves
Sophie Rickman, Nicci Holtby, Caroline Colomei, Francis Ortega
The Bridewell Theatre
ONE NIGHT STAND Director: Aileen Gonsalves
Stephen Rahman Hughes, Susan Bracken, Mike Bernardin
Hen & Chickens, London
NO GOING BACK Director: Rachel Parish
Jack Beale, Rosanna Mason
Tabard Theatre, London
DAMAGED GOOD Directors: Kelly Wilkinson & Mark Wilson
Featuring: Hilary Hamilton & Justin Deaville
Etcetera Theatre, London
THE TWO HERMIONES Director: Ramsay Gilderdale
Musical Revue Featuring: Sarah Shelton & Jane Gelardi
Electric Theatre, Guildford
WISHFUL THINKING Director: Nigel Gregory
Featuring: Robert Irons, Frances Burnett
Putney Arts Centre
Winner of the London Writers’ Competition 2000
ORIGINAL SPIN Director: Sarah Shelton
Featuring: Charlie Buckland, Caroline Lawrie
New End Theatre
Gala Night at the Criterion Theatre 2000
TRUTH TALKS Director: Tristan Brolly
Featuring: Tamara Ustinov, Hilary Hamilton, Richard Ansell,
Southwark Playhouse
Winner: Theatre Invest. Fund Acorn Scheme Award
DOUBLE EFFECT Director: Tristan Brolly
Featuring: Beryl King, John Cunningham, Sarah Lonton
Finborough Theatre
MIND THE GAP Director: Tristan Brolly
Featuring: Mark Lawrence
Finborough Theatre
DOCTORS
Long-running Drama Series BBC Television
Series XII Script editor Lyn Washbrook
Episode: `An Unexpected Arrival’ Producer: Phil Hunter
Featuring: Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Jo Stone-Fewings, Polly Maberly and Emily Head
Series XI Script editor Lyn Washbrook
Episode: `Dolly Mixtures’ Producer: Fiona Pandelus
Featuring: Selina Chilton, Deddie Davies, Helen Cotterill and Katharine Rogers
Series IX Script editor: Lyn Washbrook
Episode: `Managing Expectations’ Producer: Jonathan Phillips
Featuring: Stephen Boxer, Harvey Virdi, Sakuntala Ramanee and Medhavi Patel
Series VIII Script editor: Lyn Humphreys
Episode: `In the Driving Seat’ Producer: Erika Hossington
Featuring: Adrian Lewis Morgan, Jimmy Akingbola and David Webber
Series VII, Episode: `Relative Stress’ Script editor: Lyn Humphreys
Producer: Carol Harding
Featuring: Corrine Wicks, Amanda Walker, Jacqueline King and Kit Jackson
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Director: Gareth Carrivick
Performed at TAPS Festival 2001 Featuring: Tracy-Ann Oberman, Emma Kennedy, Dave Lamb, Jonathan Kydd, Roger Blake and Joan Blackham
Radio
TEMPERATURES RISING Producer: Peter Kavanagh
45 min afternoon play, BBC Radio 4 Prod Co: BBC Radio Drama
Featuring: Susan Tully, Marcia Warren, Stephen Beresford, Ben Crowe, Liza Sadovy
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Producer: Tracey Neale
4 x 30min comedy series Prod Co: BBC Radio Entertainment, Radio 4 Featuring: Letitia Dean, Susannah Doyle, Phil Cornwell, Julian Rhind Tutt, Maggie MaCarthy
Film
IMOGEN MY MIND (Co-written with Ed Reeve)
20 min Director: Samuel Dore
Featuring: Kelly Godfrey, Hamilton Lee, Kieran Moriarty, Morag Sims
Theatre
CLAUS THE MUSICAL Music and Lyrics: Andy Collyer Director: Kate Golledge Cast: Harry Winchester, Georgie Buckland, Nic Cain, Jazz Evans, Junior Delius, Chris Draper, Emily George, Michael Kholwadia, Jessica Lim, Mari McGinlay, Simon Oskarsson, Corrine Priest, Emily Tang, Alwyne Taylor. The Lowry, Salford.
THE TOY BOY DIARIES Music and Lyrics: Andy Collyer Director: Tania Azevedo Cast: Johanne Murdock, Nicola Blackman, Matt Beveridge, Sharif Afifi, Alistair Higgins Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
BED Director: Cecily Boys
Egg Theatre, Bath: One-Act Play Festival
MUST HAVE BEEN THE SHIRT Director: Matthew Stevens Parker
Featuring: Charlie Hanson, Steve Wickenden
The Horse, Waterloo
Winner First Draft’s April Showers Short Play Festival
OUT OF OFFICE: BEHIND THE SCENES Director: Aileen Gonsalves
Featuring: Sophie Rickman, Nicci Holtby, Jack Lewis and Ed Hulme
The Bridewell Theatre
OUT OF OFFICE Director: Aileen Gonsalves
Sophie Rickman, Nicci Holtby, Caroline Colomei, Francis Ortega
The Bridewell Theatre
ONE NIGHT STAND Director: Aileen Gonsalves
Stephen Rahman Hughes, Susan Bracken, Mike Bernardin
Hen & Chickens, London
NO GOING BACK Director: Rachel Parish
Jack Beale, Rosanna Mason
Tabard Theatre, London
DAMAGED GOOD Directors: Kelly Wilkinson & Mark Wilson
Featuring: Hilary Hamilton & Justin Deaville
Etcetera Theatre, London
THE TWO HERMIONES Director: Ramsay Gilderdale
Musical Revue Featuring: Sarah Shelton & Jane Gelardi
Electric Theatre, Guildford
WISHFUL THINKING Director: Nigel Gregory
Featuring: Robert Irons, Frances Burnett
Putney Arts Centre
Winner of the London Writers’ Competition 2000
ORIGINAL SPIN Director: Sarah Shelton
Featuring: Charlie Buckland, Caroline Lawrie
New End Theatre
Gala Night at the Criterion Theatre 2000
TRUTH TALKS Director: Tristan Brolly
Featuring: Tamara Ustinov, Hilary Hamilton, Richard Ansell,
Southwark Playhouse
Winner: Theatre Invest. Fund Acorn Scheme Award
DOUBLE EFFECT Director: Tristan Brolly
Featuring: Beryl King, John Cunningham, Sarah Lonton
Finborough Theatre
MIND THE GAP Director: Tristan Brolly
Featuring: Mark Lawrence
Finborough Theatre
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