Alice Nutter (writer)

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Alice Nutter
Born (1962-07-10) 10 July 1962 (age 62)
Burnley, Lancashire, England
OccupationMusician, Screenwriter
Nationality British
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)Vocals, percussion
Years active1982–2004
Labels

Alice Nutter (born Anne Holden; 10 July 1962) [1] [2] is an English musician, best known as part of the anarchist music group Chumbawamba, and writer for theatre, radio and television.

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Early life

She was born in Burnley, Lancashire and attended Towneley High School. [3]

Musical career

Nutter joined Chumbawamba in 1982, not long after the band formed, and took up residence in their squat in Armley. [4] With her music and politics closely integrated, Nutter picketed during the 1984-85 miners' strike and the 1986 Wapping dispute. In 1997, the band had an international hit with their song "Tubthumping", on which Nutter was a vocalist. She performed with the band on numerous international television shows and at the 1998 BRIT Awards. Nutter left Chumbawamba in 2006 to start a new career as a playwright. [5] In 2012, she returned to the band for their final live performance at the Leeds City Varieties, recorded on the live DVD Going, Going – Live at Leeds City Varieties .

Writing career

Her theatre work includes Foxes (2006) at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Where's Vietnam? (2008) for Red Ladder Theatre Company at West Yorkshire Playhouse. Her radio work includes the afternoon play Snow In July (2008) for Radio 4 and the play My Generation (2012) for Radio 3. In 2013, My Generation was brought to the West Yorkshire Playhouse by its artistic director James Brining in the first full-scale, main-stage production of Nutter's work. [6] In 2016, the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds staged Nutter's play the Barnbow Canaries about women munition workers in Barnbow, Leeds, during the First World War. The factory the women were working in exploded one day in December 1915 and killed 35 and injured many more. [7]

For television, Nutter has written an episode of Jimmy McGovern's series The Street (2007) [4] and an episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty (2009). She has also written an episode of Moving On , Jimmy McGovern's series, Accused and period drama The Mill . Nutter wrote a biographical drama based on the life of the Mancunian comedian Bernard Manning, but cuts to the BBC4 budget led to the piece never being filmed. [6]

In March 2014, Spanner Films announced that Nutter would be one of the writers for Undercovers, a television drama series about the undercover police officers who infiltrated the British activist scene for 50 years, and the women who unknowingly had long-term relationships and even children with the spies. The series was also written by Simon Beaufoy, and was to be produced by Tony Garnett. [8] The project did not come to fruition, but she later worked on the FX series Trust with Beaufoy about the Getty family and the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, broadcast on BBC2 in 2018. With Beaufoy, she wrote the sequel television series to the 1997 film The Full Monty , produced by FX on Hulu and Disney+. [9] [10]

Personal life

She changed her name by deed poll, feeling "an affinity" to the woman accused and hanged as a result of the 17th century Pendle witch hunt. [11]

Nutter is an atheist. [12]

Writing credits

ProductionNotesBroadcaster
The Street
  • "The Postman" (2007)
 BBC One
Casualty
  • "With This Ring" (co-written with Martin Jameson, 2009)
BBC One
Moving On
  • "The Test" (2010)
BBC One
Accused
  • "Helen's Story" (2010)
BBC One
32 Brinkburn Street
  • "Episode #1.3" (2011)
  • "Episode #1.4" (2011)
BBC One
Justice
  • "The Secret's Out" (2011)
BBC One
The Mill
  • "Episode #2.4" (2014)
 Channel 4
The White Princess
  • "English Blood on English Soil " (2017)
 Starz
Trust
  • "Episode #5" (2018)
  • "Episode #8" (2018)
  • "Episode #9" (2018)
  • "Episode #10" (2018)
 FX

Awards and nominations

YearAwardWorkCategoryResultReference
2011 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award Accused Best Television Drama Series (with Jimmy McGovern, Daniel Brocklehurst and Esther Wilson)Nominated

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References

  1. ↑ Chumbawamba FAQ Archived 2015-04-25 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2011
  2. ↑ Wollaston, Sam (14 January 2019). "How Alice Nutter went from Chumbawamba to prestige TV". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "Archive from the Lancashire Telegraph". Lancashiretelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  4. 1 2 Cumming, Tim (11 March 2008). "Chumbawamba: They got knocked down..." . The Independent . Archived from the original on 12 May 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2009.; Steve Bottoms, 'Struggling to be Human', in the programme for the 2013 West Yorkshire Playhouse production My Generation.
  5. ↑ Steve Bottoms, 'Struggling to be Human', in the programme for the 2013 West Yorkshire Playhouse production My Generation.
  6. 1 2 Steve Bottoms, 'Struggling to be Human', in the programme for the West Yorkshire Playhouse production My Generation Archived 2013-10-28 at the Wayback Machine . Staged October 5–26, 2013
  7. ↑ Long, Chris (21 June 2016). "Barnbow Canaries: Telling the stories of WW1 munitions workers". BBC News. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "Spanner Films press release". 7 March 2014. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  9. ↑ Goldbart, Max (28 March 2022). "The Full Monty: Disney+ Revives 1997 BAFTA-Winning Film As Limited TV Series; Original Cast Including Robert Carlyle & Tom Wilkinson To Return". Deadline Hollywood .
  10. ↑ Nutter, Alice (19 May 2023). "'Taking their clothes off was a metaphor': The Full Monty creators on the return of their Sheffield strippers". The Guardian .
  11. ↑ "Alice Nutter interview | Robert Endeacott". Endeacott.com. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  12. ↑ "Singer and atheist Alice Nutter, a Jewish student and an Anglican businessman each join a Muslim family in Bradford to experience Ramadan first hand, and through some hard conversations get a unique view of what it's like to be a Muslim in contemporary Britain." TRILT: 'Fast Friends, BBC1, Sunday 14 Nov 04, 23:45 (35 mins)' (accessed May 22, 2008).
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