Stephen Wyatt

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Stephen Wyatt, born 4 February 1948 in Beckenham, Kent (now Greater London), is a British writer for theatre, radio and television.

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Early life and education

Wyatt was raised in Ealing, West London. [1] He was educated at Latymer Upper School and then Clare College, Cambridge. After a brief spell as lecturer in Drama at Glasgow University, he began his career as a freelance playwright in 1975 as writer/researcher with the Belgrade Theatre Coventry in Education team.

Full listings of his work can be found on his website www.stephenwyatt.co.uk.

Theatre work

His subsequent young people's theatre work includes The Magic Cabbage (Unicorn Theatre, 1978), Monster (York Theatre Royal, 1979) and The Witch of Wapping (Half Moon, 1980).[ citation needed ]

In 1982 and 1983, he was Resident Writer with the Bubble Theatre for whom he wrote Glitterballs and The Rogue's Progress.[ citation needed ]

His other theatre work includes After Shave (Apollo Theatre, 1978), R.I.P Maria Callas (Edinburgh Festival Fringe / Hen and Chickens, 1992), A Working Woman - from Émile Zola’s L'Assommoir (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 1992), Pick Yourself Up (Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, 2011), A Victorian Mikado (Krazy Kat Theatre, 2011), The Standard Bearer (Waterloo East Theatre, London / Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre, Los Angeles, 2014), The Devil in the Belfry - libretto after a scenario by Claude Debussy (Gottingen 2013), and Told Look Younger (Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 2015).[ citation needed ]

He also collaborated with Jeff Clarke on The Burglar's Opera for Opera della Luna (2004) "stolen from an idea by W. S. Gilbert with music nicked from Sir Arthur Sullivan" and with the Weaver Dance Company on The Loves of Mars and Venus and The Loves of Pygmalion.[ citation needed ]

His new comedy Two Cigarettes in the Dark starring Penelope Keith and directed by Alan Strachan opens at the Chichester Festival Theatre in February 2022. [2]

Television work

Wyatt's first work for television was Claws, filmed by the BBC in 1987, starring Simon Jones and Brenda Blethyn. He was then commissioned by Andrew Cartmel to write two scripts for the science-fiction series Doctor Who , which were called Paradise Towers and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy , both starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. His other television credits include scripts for The House of Eliott and Casualty .

In 2020 Big Finish brought out The Psychic Circus, Stephen's audio drama prequel to The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Radio work

He has worked for BBC Radio since 1985 as both an adapter and an original playwright.

Radio adaptations

Original plays

Publications

Awards

His play Memorials to the Missing (2007) won the Tinniswood Award for best original radio script of 2007 and Silver in the Best Drama category of the 2008 Sony Radio Academy Awards.

His radio drama Gerontius (2010) won the 2011 Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Drama Script. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ Wyatt, Stephen (2010). "About Stephen". www.stephenwyatt.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  2. ↑ "Two Cigarettes in the Dark UK Tour starring Dame Penelope Keith". 31 August 2021.
  3. ↑ bloomsbury.com. "Pinero: Three Plays". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "Doctor Who". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "Doctor Who". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  6. ↑ "Memorials to the Missing". Goodreads. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  7. ↑ "R.I.P. Maria Callas". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  8. ↑ "Gilbert Without Sullivan". Goodreads. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  9. ↑ "L'Assommoir". Goodreads. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  10. ↑ "The Speculator". Goodreads. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  11. ↑ "So You Want to Write Radio Drama?". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  12. ↑ "The World and His Wife: A true story told by two unreli…". Goodreads. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  13. ↑ "The Wallscrawler and Other Stories – Stephen Wyatt". Obverse Books. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  14. ↑ Writers' Guild of Great Britain (2012). "Audio Drama Award winners announced". www.writersguild.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
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