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Ed Harris is a playwright, radio dramatist, comedy writer, librettist, poet and performer [1] based in Brighton, England.
Ed Harris | |
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| Born | West London |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Nationality | British |
| Notable works |
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| Notable awards | |
Ed Harris is a playwright, radio dramatist, comedy writer, librettist, poet and performer [1] based in Brighton, England.
Harris grew up in West London and attended Drayton Manor High School and Twyford Church of England High School in Acton. He is dyslexic. After finishing high school, he worked for several years as a bin man and later as a care worker, as well as travelling and working abroad, including waiting tables in Turkey and training huskies in Kiruna, Sweden. He received his first theatrical commission after being ‘discovered’ at a poetry gig he performed at in Brighton in 2002. [2]
Harris's first play, Sugared Grapefruit, received a full staged reading directed by Andrea Brooks at The Old Vic in 2003, as part of The Old Vic’s New Voices programme.
In 2005, he wrote The Cow Play, which received an Arts Council-funded tour in 2007, and was later revived for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe [3] to great critical acclaim .
His next play, Never Ever After, was shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 2008. [4]
His first major stage 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] where it ran for six months, directed by Fernando Rozvar.
His first play for children, What The Thunder Said, won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Children's Play 2017. [7]
Ed has written extensively for BBC Radio drama and comedy. His first radio play, Porshia, was produced in 2007 and starred Robert Webb. [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] Harris also wrote and starred in the semi-autobiographical play, The Slow Kapow [11]
As well as many stand-alone plays, Harris has written numerous series, including an adaption of Franz Kafka's The Castle. [12] in 2015. More recently, he was the lead writer for BBC Radio 4’s Kafkaesque season, commemorating the centenary of Kafka’s death, adapating two further Kafka novels, The Trial and The Man Who Disappeared. He was also made the Writer in Residence for Kafka’s Transformative Communities’ Project, Wadham College, University of Oxford.
He is the writer of Dot, [13] a sitcom that follows the exploits of some of the female staff of the Cabinet War Rooms during the Second World War, starring Fenella Woolgar, Kate O'Flynn, Freya Parker, Jane Slavin and David Acton.
In 2018, Harris wrote the libretto for a new opera A Shoe Full Of Stars for Opera Schmopera with composer Omar Shahryar. [14] It won a Best Opera For Young Audiences YAMAward / RESEO award in 2018.
In 2023, Ed Harris wrote Strangers Like Me, a comedy about grief for young adults, commissioned by The National Theatre [15] and produced as part of the National Theatre Connections 23 programme.
Harris is also a published poet. [16] He became a Royal Literary Fellow in 2021.
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