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Tam Dean Burn

TAM DEAN BURN

  (1958 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Tam Dean Burn is a Scottish actor Theatre work includes: Home Edinburgh (National Theatre of Scotland); Mary Stuart (Donmar Warehouse and Apollo West End); The Cutting Room, Venice Preserved, The Cherry Orchard, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Scrooge, Peer Gynt, The Pleasure Man (Glasgow Citizens); Filth (Citizens, National Tour and Calgary, Canada); Platonov (Almeida); Berkoff's Messiah (Edinburgh Assembly); Headstate (Lemon Tree and tour). Television work includes: River City (BBC); Taggart (STV); Helen West (ITV), Longford (Channel 4). Radio work includes: Ongoing solo show on resonancefm.com including The Complete Poems of William Blake. Tam has also directed and performed in many live radio plays for resonancefm.com. Directing credits include: William Burrough's Caught in Possession of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Citizens Theatre); Sniperculture (Traverse); Cruel Brittania (London Scala) all written by Johnny Brown for Underground Utopia. Audiobook work includes: Trainspottng, Filth, Glue, Porno (Irvine Welsh), The Cutting Room (Louise Welsh, RNIB). Tam would like to thank his guitar teacher, Mick Slaven.

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below is a list of Tam Dean Burn's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Black and White Minstrel Show, The         Cutting Room, The         Filth         Gorbals Turncoat         Joy Of the Worm         Marathon Storytelling Cycle Challenge, The         Move Text Too         Venus As A Boy         Year Of the Horse

Black and White Minstrel Show, The

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Cutting Room, The

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Rilke is a gay Glaswegian auctioneer who stumbles across a cache of disturbing pornographic photographs from the late 1940s while clearing the antique-stuffed house of a rich dead man. Do the photographs show what they seem to? Or are they an elaborate construct? Rilke s empathy towards the anonymous victim in these photographs develops into an obsession that takes him on a quest through every stratum of the city of Glasgow: a journey into the past that leads towards the present and some kind of truth.

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adapted by Tam Dean Burn from the book by Louise Welsh. The Cutting Room is Scotlands latest literary success. Inspired partly by hard-boiled American crime fiction and partly gothic literature, it is currently being translated into 12 languages and made into a feature film. It has been awarded the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger, BBCs Underground 2003 Award and shared The Saltire First Book Award. It was also nominated for the Orange Prize.

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Filth

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Pleasance - Edinburgh    2001

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Gorbals Turncoat

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part of New Works New WorldsSeason of new pieces

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Joy Of the Worm

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a subterranean world with second-hand sunshine and breadcrumbs. an absurd look at coping mechanisms.

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a collaborative project, with Pauline Goldsmith, Skye Lonergan And the Arches theatre Company, (Tam Dean Burn And Julie Duncanson).

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Scotland in Sweden, Stockholm    2002

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the arches Theatre

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Marathon Storytelling Cycle Challenge, The

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a Marathon Storytelling Cycle Challenge where he will travel the length and breadth of Scotland, following the Queen's Baton Relay, and endeavouring to read all 195 books and plays of renowned children's author, Julia Donaldson. I

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adapted from books by Julian Donaldson

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North Kelvin Meadow - Glasgow    13 Jun 2014

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Move Text Too

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Venus As A Boy

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He has a gift. With just one touch or kiss, he can reveal a glimpse of heaven in all its resplendent glory. Some call him Cupid. Or Venus as a boy. Performed by award-wining actor Tam Dean Burn with live music from Luke Sutherland. Venus as a Boy is an explosive and haunting story about the miraculous power of sex.

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adaptation of Luke Sutherland's Acclaimed novel

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St Agnes Festival, Orkney, Scotland    2007

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Year Of the Horse

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based on the 52 cartoons produced by the award-winning children's author and cartoonist Harry Horse for the Sunday Herald. This is an exploration of the Bush/Blair years as seen by one of the most brilliant political cartoonists of the age

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original music by Keith McIvor

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