Stephen Lowe

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Stephen Lowe (born 1947) is an English playwright.

He was born in Sneinton, Nottingham, where his father was a labourer and his mother a machinist in Nottingham's Lace Market. He graduated from Birmingham University.

While working as a part-time shepherd in the Yorkshire Dales, he was commissioned by Alan Ayckbourn to write a comedy double-bill, Comic Pictures, which was directed by Ayckbourn in Scarborough in 1976.

His plays include:

  • Comic Pictures (Stars and Cards) 1976
  • Shooting Fishing and Riding (1977)
  • Touched (1977)
  • Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1978)
  • Glasshouses (later retitled Moving Pictures) (1981)
  • Tibetan Inroads (1981)
  • Strive (1982)
  • Seachange (1984)
  • Keeping Body and Soul Together (1984)
  • Desire (1986)
  • Demon Lovers (1987)
  • Divine Gossip (1988)
  • Paradise (1990)
  • The Alchemical Wedding (1998)
  • Revelations (2003)
  • Old Big 'Ead in The Spirit of the Man (2005)
  • The Fox (2005)

He has three children and a wife

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