Sheila Dewey
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Sheila Dewey is a British playwright, writing for theatre since 1982. In 1991 she received the Thames Television Theatre Writers' Award, and in 1992 was awarded an Arts Council Bursary. She has been short-listed for the Meyer-Whitworth Award.
Her plays include a number of works produced at the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon, including Turner's Crossing, Eva and the Cabin Boy - about the Loch Ard shipwreck - and the biographical play Bumps, on the relationship between Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens.
She was Resident Playwright, Literary Manager and Associate Director at the Warehouse Theatre, where she ran the Writers' Workshop over a decade. Previous to this, Dewey was one of the founders of the Tabard Theatre.
[edit] Plays
- Workspace (Hounslow Drama Workshop Tour, 1983)
- The Green Man (Tabard Theatre, 1985)
- The Portrait of a Mute Woman (Tabard Theatre, 1986)
- The Last Ditch (Tabard Theatre 1986/ Thorndike Young Peoples Theatre 1989)
- Out of Sight (Tabard Theatre, 1987)
- Who Pays the Piper (Popova Theatre Company, 1988)
- Wednesday's Child (Popova Theatre Company,1989)
- Pavane (Tabard Theatre, 1989)
- The Bus to Wanstock (Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company, 1990)
- The Girl Ship (Solent Peoples' Theatre, 1991)
- Turners Crossing (Warehouse Theatre, 1992)
- Eva and the Cabin Boy (Warehouse Theatre, 1994)
- Midsummer Madness (Solent Peoples' Theatre, 1994)
- Orange Nell (Characters Company, 1996)
- The Lost Star (Woodside International School, 2000)
- Orange Moll (Warehouse Theatre, 1998)
- Bumps (Warehouse Theatre/Museum of Garden History/The King's Head Theatre, 2001)
