James Phillips (playwright)

James Phillips (born 29 April 1977) is a British playwright, director and photographer.

Educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford, Phillips' first play, The Rubenstein Kiss, won both the John Whiting Award (2006)^[1] and the TMA Award for Best Play. As a director he has worked extensively and was a recipient of the National Arts Endowment Award for his first professional production, Frank McGuinness's Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme at the Pleasance, London.^[2]

Plays

The Little Fir Tree (2004) premiered at Sheffield Theatres, directed by James Phillips^[3]
The Rubenstein Kiss (2005) premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, directed by James Phillips^[1]
Wind in the Willows (2010) adapted for Latitude Festival, directed by Alan Lane^[4]
Time and the City (2011) premiered in Hull for Slung Low Theatre Company, directed by Alan Lane^[5]
Hidden in the Sand (2013) premiered at Trafalgar Studios, directed by James Phillips^[6]
City Stories (2013-ongoing) resident at St James Theatre, London, directed by James Phillips^[7]
The White Whale (2014) premiered in Leeds for Slung Low Theatre Company, directed by Alan Lane^[8]
Camelot: The Shining City (2015) premiering at Sheffield Theatres, directed by Alan Lane^[9]
McQueen (2015) premiering at St James Theatre, London, directed by John Caird^[10]

Other Work

If We Dead Awaken (2012), TV drama for Coming Up (TV series), Channel 4, directed by Luke McManus^[11]
Nicosia: The Last Dividing Line (2013), book of documentary photography, published by En Tipis (Nicosia, Cyprus)^[12]

References

1 2 Smith, Alistair (31 October 2006). "Pair collect Whiting Award for original stage writing". The Stage. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
↑ "James Phillips". Drama Online. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
↑ http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/5627/the-little-fir-tree
↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/suffolk/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8831000/8831346.stm
↑ http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/yorkshire-living/arts/theatre-and-tv/review-mapping-the-city-1-3354892
↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/10374679/Hidden-in-the-Sand-Trafalgar-Studios-review.html
↑ http://www.stjamestheatre.co.uk/studio/city-stories-5/
↑ Gardner, Lyn (8 September 2014). "The White Whale review – a delightful dystopian twist on Moby-Dick". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
↑ http://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/event/camelot-the-shining-city-15/
↑ Milligan, Lauren (12 February 2015). "Alexander McQueen: The Play". Vogue. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
↑ http://www.channel4.com/programmes/coming-up/videos/all/coming-up-if-we-dead-awaken
↑ http://www.japancamerahunter.com/2014/05/get-featured-james-phillips/

External links

John Whiting Award

1967–1969	Tom Stoppard for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Wole Soyinka (shared) (1967) Peter Nichols for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967) Peter Barnes for The Ruling Class and Edward Bond for Narrow Road to the Deep North (shared) (1968) Howard Brenton for Christie in Love (1969)

1970–1979	Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for Freehold on Antigone (1970) Mustapha Matura for As Time Goes By (1971) Heathcote Williams for AC/DC (1972) John Arden (1973) David Rudkin (1974) David Edgar for Destiny (1975) David Lan for The Winter Dancers (1976) David Halliwell and Snoo Wilson for The Glad Hand (shared) (1978) Stephen Bill (1979)

1980–1989	David Pownall for Beef (1981) Karim Alrawi for Migrations (1982) Peter Flannery for Our Friends in the North (1983) Ron Hutchinson for The Rat in the Skull (1984) Guy Hibbert for On the Edge and Heidi Thomas for Shamrocks & Crocodiles (shared) (1985) Nick Dear for The Art of Success (1986) Iain Heggie for American Bagpipes (1988) Billy Roche for A Handful of Stars (1989)

1990–1999	Lucy Gannon for Keeping Tom Nice (1990) Terry Johnson for Imagine Drowning (1991) Rod Wooden for Your Home in the West (1992) Martin Crimp for The Treatment and Helen Edmundson for The Clearing (shared) (1993) Jonathan Harvey for Beautiful Thing (1994) Joe Penhall for Some Voices (1995) Ayub Khan-Din for East is East (1996) Ann Coburn for Get up and Tie you Fingers (1997) Roy Williams for Starstruck (1998/9)

2000–2009	David Greig for The Cosmonaut's Last Message ... and Tanika Gupta for The Waiting Room (shared) (2000) Zinnie Harris for Farther than the Farest Thing (2001) Peter Rumney for Jumping on my Shadow (2002) Rona Munro for Iron (2003) Owen McCafferty for Scenes from the Big Picture (2004) Fin Kennedy for How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (2005) James Philips for The Rubenstein Kiss and Fraser Grace for Breakfast with Mugabe (shared) (2006) Dennis Kelly for Taking Care of Baby (2007) Bryony Lavery for Stockholm (2008) Alexi Kaye Campbell for The Pride (2009)

2010–9999	Tim Crouch for The Author and Lucy Kirkwood for It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It Is Alright Now (shared) (2010)

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