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Michael Wynne is an Olivier Award winning playwright and screenwriter. [1]
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Michael Wynne is an Olivier Award winning playwright and screenwriter. [1]
Wynne was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside [1] . He attended St Peter's Primary School and St Benedict's Secondary School. He studied Politics at Queen Mary College, University of London.
Wynne wrote his first play The Knocky in his final year at University [2] . It was produced by the Royal Court Theatre, taken on tour and subsequently performed at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre. It won the 1996 Meyer Whitworth Award, Best New Talent - Liverpool Echo Arts Awards and he was nominated as Best New Writer by the Writers Guild. Wynne has had eight plays produced by the Royal Court - The Knocky, The People Are Friendly, The Priory, The Red Flag, Friday Night Sex (co-written and directed with Alecky Blythe) Who Cares, I'm Not Here for The Living Newspaper and Cuckoo. The Priory won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. He has worked with four Royal Court artistic directors - Steven Daldry, Ian Rickson, Dominic Cooke and Vicky Featherstone.
Other plays include Sell Out and Dirty Wonderland for Frantic Assembly. The Boy Who Left Home for Actors Touring Company/Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. Tits/Teeth for the National Youth Theatre and Soho Theatre. Canvas for the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.
Wynne wrote Too Cold For Snow for Prada at the Prada Foundation in Milan. It starred Cillian Murphy, Kelly Reilly, Rupert Penry-Jones, Hans Matheson, Paul Fox and was directed by Vicky Featherstone. He took part in the first 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic Theatre and wrote Cuba which starred Penelope Wilton, Harriet Walter, Alex Jennings and Susan Lynch and closed the night. He wrote and directed the play/film Collider about CERN, The Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs Boson for the Science Museum, London and subsequent world tour.
Wynne wrote Hope Place for the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. It was the first new play to be performed in the newly rebuilt Everyman Theatre and is the Everyman Theatre's best selling new play to date. He also wrote The Star for the Liverpool Playhouse, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Playhouse Theatre which was originally The Star Music Hall.
Wynne’s plays are published by Faber and Faber. [1]
Wynne co-wrote the film My Summer of Love (in collaboration with Pawel Pawlikowski) which starred Emily Blunt and Natalie Press. It won the BAFTA for Best British Film and Best Screenplay - Evening Standard Awards.
He has written for television including Where The Heart Is, Grafters, As If, Sugar Rush and Eyes Down. He wrote the film Lapland for BBC1 and was shown on Christmas Eve in 2011 as part of the BBC1 Christmas schedule. It starred Sue Johnston, Steven Graham, Elizabeth Berrington, Julie Graham, William Ash and Zawe Ashton. He subsequently wrote the six part spin off series Being Eileen for BBC1.
He wrote the Little Crackers installment "The Daltons", starring Sheridan Smith, about Smith's childhood, for Sky One.
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