Jessica Dromgoole

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Jessica Dromgoole is a British director of contemporary theatre and radio-plays, as well as a former Artistic Director of the Finborough Theatre from 1988 to 1991. In 1991 she became New Writing Co-ordinator for BBC Drama, Entertainment and Children's programmes.

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Early life

Dromgoole is the daughter of schoolteacher Jenny Davis and Patrick Dromgoole, a former managing director of Harlech Television. Dromgoole is the older sister of Dominic Dromgoole and Sean Dromgoole. [1]

Selected awards

YearWorkAwardCategoryRoleResultRef.
2007 The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body by Ed Hime Prix Italia Original Radio DramaDirectorWon [2]
2012 Lost Property: The Year My Mother Went Missing by Katie Hims BBC Audio Drama Awards Best Audio DramaProducerWon [3]
2012 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (dramatised by Mike Walker)Sony Radio Academy Awards Best DramaDirectorBronze [4]
2018 Home Front by Katie Hims & Sarah Daniels BBC Audio Drama Awards Best Audio Drama (series or serial)ProducerFinalist [5]
2019 Home Front BBC Audio Drama Awards Outstanding ContributionEditorWon [6]
2020 Home Front: A Fragile Peace by Katie Hims BBC Audio Drama Awards Tinniswood Award ProducerCommendation [7]

Radio plays

Radio plays directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Date first broadcastPlayAuthorCastSynopsis
Awards		Station
Series
31 March 2007The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body [8] [9] Ed Hime Khalid Abdalla, Ameet Chana, Elaine Lordan, Saikat Ahamed, John Dougall, Mark Straker, Anthony Glennon and Jasmine Callan Ed Hime's blackly comic fictional documentary combines a collage of deliberate recordings, from police surveillance tapes to an unfinished installation piece on pigeons, as it follows Babak Beyrouti, famous Iranian sound recordist and agoraphobic, as he braves London in his quest for lost love.

Won the Prix Italia for Original Radio Drama in 2007. [2] 		BBC Radio 3 The Wire [10]
18 June 2008Listen to the Words [11] Ed Hime Joe Dempsie, Lizzie Watts, Sam Crane, Lisa Stevenson, Nyasha Hatendi, Helen Longworth, Ben Crowe, John Rowe, Liz Sutherland, Stephen Critchlow and Dan Starkey Tim has a problem with empathy, and justifies tapping fellow student Sophie's phone as the only way to understand her. When it all goes wrong, he books the media room of the secure unit where he is being held and creates a broadcast for his college radio station. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play [12]
2 August 2010 – 6 August 2010 The Shooting Party [13] Isabel Colegate dramatised by D J Britton Olivia Colman, Ellie Kendrick, Sam Dale, Jaimi Barbakoff, Michael Shelford, Christine Kavanagh, Joshua Swinney, Sean Baker, Sally Orrock, Jude Akuwudike and David SeddonAutumn 1913; a shooting party takes place on an Oxfordshire country estate. An error of judgement results in a death. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama [14]
18 November 2010All the Blood in My Veins [15] Katie Hims Elaine Lordan, Shannon Tarbet, Tyger Drew-Honey, Katie Angelou, Alfie Browne-Sykes, Jude Akuwidike, Lloyd Thomas, Deeivya Meir and Shirena WattViola, a 14-year-old girl, has responsibilities beyond her age. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
3 May 2011Lost Property: The Wrong Label [16] Katie Hims Rosie Cavaliero, Alex Tregear, Katie Angelou, Daniel Cooper, Daniel Rabin, Stuart McLoughlin, Bethan Walker, Sally Orrock, Sean Baker and Joanna Monro London, 1941, and Alice knows that to stop your children from being evacuated is tantamount to siding with Hitler. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
10 May 2011Lost Property: The Year My Mother Went Missing [17] Katie Hims Rosie Cavaliero, Shannon Flynn, Ceallach Spellman, Elliot Griffiths, Ralph Ineson, Daniel Rabin, Jane Whittenshaw, Sally Orrock, Stuart McLoughlin and Sean BakerIt's 1979, and it's not the first time that Ruthie's mother Queenie has gone missing, but usually she leaves a note.

Won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Audio Drama in 2012. [3] 		BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
17 May 2011Lost Property: A Telegram from the Queen [18] Katie Hims Rosie Cavaliero, Edna Doré, Gary Beadle, Daniel Rabin, Stuart McLoughlin, Sean Baker, Jane Whittenshaw, Alex Tregear, Joanna Monro and Sally OrrockIt's 2011, and, as Alice's 100th birthday present, Ruthie sets out to put her family back together again. The final play in Katie Hims' trilogy of heartbreak and redemption. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
26 December 2011 – 30 December 2011 A Tale of Two Cities [Note 1] [19] Charles Dickens dramatised in five parts by Mike Walker
Music by Lennert Busch		 Robert Lindsay, Jonathan Coy, Alison Steadman, Karl Johnson, Lydia Wilson, Andrew Scott, Paul Ready, James Lailey, Tracy Wiles, Simon Bubb, Carl Prekopp, Adjoa Andoh, Daniel Cooper, Clive Merrison, Gerard McDermott, Paul Moriarty, Christopher Webster, Adam Billington, Rikki Lawton and Alex RiversIn London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, these five episodes show the plight of the French people under the brutal oppression of the aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality of the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the years immediately following.

Won the Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama in 2012. [4] 		BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
Notes
  1. ↑ Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer
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References

  1. ↑ Dromgoole, Dominic (2007). "Acknowledgments". Will & Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life. Pegasus Books. pp. 293–4. ISBN   978-1933648460 . Retrieved 11 March 2013. My sister Jessica was extremely helpful, as she always is, with matters of tone, with extra material and with a large helping of extra jokes.[ dead link ]
  2. 1 2 "Prix Italia, Past Editions - Winners 1949 – 2010" (PDF). RAI . 2010. p. 106. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2013.
  3. 1 2 "BBC announces winners for first ever BBC Audio Drama Awards". BBC (Press release). 29 January 2012. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Sony Radio Academy Awards 2012 – Best Drama". Radio Academy . 2012. Archived from the original on 19 May 2012.
  5. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - BBC Audio Drama Awards - The List of 2018 Winners". BBC. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  6. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - BBC Audio Drama Awards - The List of 2019 Winners". BBC. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  7. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - BBC Audio Drama Awards - Audio Drama Awards 2020 – The Finalists". BBC. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  8. ↑ BBC – The Wire – The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body
  9. ↑ "The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body – A radio play by Ed Hime (script)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  10. ↑ BBC – The Wire
  11. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Listen to the Words
  12. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play
  13. ↑ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Shooting Party
  14. ↑ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama
  15. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – All the Blood in My Veins
  16. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Lost Property: The Wrong Label
  17. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Lost Property: The Year My Mother Went Missing
  18. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Lost Property: A Telegram from the Queen
  19. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – A Tale of Two Cities


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