Trevor Maynard | |
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| Born | September 11, 1963 Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | 1986–present |
Trevor Maynard is a poet, playwright and editor. After an earlier career as a playwright, he current works as the managing editor of "The Poetic Bond" [1] an annual anthology of international poetry garnered from new media, social, and professional networking. Maynard is a member of The Poetry Society, a former executive member of The Writers' Guild of Great Britain, and former treasurer of the Theatre Writers' Union.
A poet is a person who creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be a writer of poetry, or may perform their art to an audience.
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short stories and short novels, by different authors, each featuring unrelated casts of characters and settings, and usually collected into a single volume for publication.
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His early writing career was as a playwright, studying Theatre Studies and Drama at Royal Holloway College before going on to write and direct on the London Fringe at theatres such as The White Bear, Etcetera, Pentameters, and Barons Court. His plays were reviewed in Time Out, [2] What's On, [3] The Stage , Ham and High, [4] , and The Morning Star , [5]
The White Bear Theatre is a fringe theatre founded in 1988 at the White Bear pub in Kennington, London, and run by Artistic Director and founder Michael Kingsbury. It is one of London's leading pub theatres, as well as one of the longest established, dedicated since inception to both new writing and to its Lost Classics Project, which focuses on productions of obscure historical works. Notable theatre practitioners who have worked at The White Bear include Joe Penhall, Dennis Kelly, Mark Little, Emily Watson, Tamzin Outhwaite, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Vicky Featherstone, Torben Betts, Lucinda Coxon, Adam Spreadbury-Maher, and Brice Stratford.
The Etcetera Theatre is a fringe venue for theatre and comedy. It was founded in 1986 and is situated above The Oxford Arms pub in Camden Town, in the London Borough of Camden.
The Pentameters Theatre was founded in 1968 and is still run by artistic director Leonie Scott-Matthews, a well known Hampstead resident. It is a 60-seat venue and is a fringe theatre in the London Borough of Camden, located above the Three Horseshoes public house in Hampstead. The theatre has a reputation for producing revivals, poetry, music events and cutting-edge new plays in particular.
Actors performing in his plays have include Fiona Wellburn (The Lenny Henry Show) as "Jen" and Johnny Harris (Jawbone), (Fortitude), (This Is England '86} as "Ben" in "En Vacances" , [6] [7] Peter Attard (To Sir With Love) in "The Final Curtain", Joanna Robinson-Holden [8] in "From Pillow to Post", Robin Ince (The Infinite Monkey Cage) in "Shadow Walker", [9] , Rebecca Cardinale and Daren Jacobs (Brothers) in "Glass" [10] [11] . and Paul Whelan, Mike McKone, and Gillian Parry in "Dole Trilogy" [12]
The Lenny Henry Show is a comedy sketch show featuring Lenny Henry. It was originally broadcast between 1984 and 1988, and was later revived twice, in 1995 and 2004–2005.
Johnny Harris is an English actor, screenwriter, producer and director best known for his roles in film and television, including Jawbone, Troy: Fall of a City, This is England '86, Snow White and the Huntsman, Fortitude, Monsters: Dark Continent, The Fades, Welcome to the Punch, and London to Brighton.
Jawbone is a 2017 British drama film directed by Thomas Q. Napper and written by Johnny Harris. The film stars Johnny Harris, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Michael Smiley, Luke J.I. Smith and Anna Wilson-Hall. The film was released on 12 May 2017 by Vertigo Films.
His later career has been as a poet and editor. Since 2011 he has published the work of 170 poets from over 30 countries. In December 2018, the eighth volume in The Poetic Bond series was published, featuring 125 poems from 72 poets.
In 2013, Maynard contributed two poems to Men in the Company of Women [13] , and was also published in Aesthetica Magazine. In 2016, he edited and published Echoes In The Earth by award winning Indian poet Pushpita Awasthi [14]
Aesthetica is an international art and culture magazine, founded in 2002. The magazine is published bi-monthly and covers contemporary art from around the world, featuring photography, exhibitions, visual art, fashion, architecture, design, film, music and performance. The magazine offers a respected opinion on visual art and culture. It has a print and digital readership of over 340,000 and national and international distribution. Cherie Federico, Managing Director and Editor of Aesthetica was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2008.
