Amanda Whittington
Amanda Whittington is a playwright and was born in Nottingham in 1968. After leaving school, she worked as a freelance journalist for a variety of publications and was a columnist for the Nottingham Evening Post. In 2001, she won the Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award for Bollywood Jane, a work which she later adapted for stage. She has also written three youth theatre plays and a stage adaptation of "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (2006).[1] As of 2013, she is chair of the Writers' Guild Theatre Committee.[2]
stage plays
- Be My Baby (1998)
- The Wills's Girls (2002) (Show of Strength Theatre Company/BBC Radio Four)
- Bollywood Jane (2003) (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester)
- Satin 'n' Steel (2005) (Nottingham Playhouse/Octagon Theatre, Bolton)
- Ladies Day (2005) (Hull Truck Theatre)
- Ladies Down Under (2007) (Hull Truck Theatre)
- Tipping the Velvet (2009) (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
- Amateur Girl (2009) (Hull Truck Theatre)
- The Thrill Of Love (2013) (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme)
- The Boy on the Hill (New Perspectives)
A trilogy of plays written in collaboration with John Cheetham:
- Runaway Girl
- Twist And Shout
- Shirley's Song
radio plays
- Last Stop Louisa's (2003) (BBC Radio 4)
- Once Upon A Time (2004) (Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4)
- The Road To Abolition (2007) (BBC Radio 3)
- The Nine Days Queen (2009) (BBC Radio 4)
- Paradise Place (2010) (Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4)
References
- ↑ Amanda Whittington - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays
- ↑ http://www.amandawhittington.com/amandawhittingtg.html
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