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Ed Thomas

ED THOMAS

  
Nationality:    Welsh
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  represented by Charlotte Knight

Ed is playwright, director and producer, whose work has been widely distributed to over 80 countries. His first play HOUSE OF America (1988) won the Time Out award for the best new play in London, was adapted into a 35mm feature film in 1996, which premiered at the Sundance Festival Utah and won numerous awards including 10 BAFTA Wales awards. His other plays include FLOWERS OF the DEAD RED SEA (1991), EAST FROM the GANTRY (1993), SONG FROM A FORGOTTEN CITY (1995), GAS STATION ANGEL (1998) and STONE CITY BLUE (2004) have toured all over the UK, Europe and Australia, translated into more than 10 languages, and played at venues including the Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse, Tramway Glasgow and Lyceum Edinburgh. "nothing prepared us for the explosion of guilt, anger, passion and cultural concern of this work. . ..its thrilling stuff" the GUARDIAN "unsentimental, madly imaginative and lyrical. . .brilliant" the INDEPENDENT Ed is also the founder member and Creative Director of Cardiff based film and TV independent production company Fiction Factory. Since 1995 he has written directed or produced more than 120 hours of popular and innovative Drama across all genres for the BBC, ITV, CHANNEL 5 and S4C garnering more than 70 nominations and awards from BAFTA Wales to ROSE D'or PRIX EUROPA. His credits include SATELLITE CITY, FALLEN SONS, SILENT VILLAGE, CHINA, CWMGIEDD/COLOMBIA and the detective series MIND TO KILL which Freemantle Media distributed to more than 80 countries worldwide. Ed is also a fluent Welsh speaker and over the last seven years alone has produced more than 60 hours of Drama for S4C including 5 series of CAERDYDD, Y PRIS, PEN TALAR and GWAITH/CARTREF, with international distribution through Mentorn Media and Eurochannel. He lives in Cardiff with his wife and child and is working on a new slate of work.

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         Adar Heb Adenydd         Anna Christie         Drive On         East From the Gantry         Envy         Flowers         Flowers Of the Dead Red Sea         Gas Station Angels         Gwlad yr Addewid         Hiraeth / Strangers In Conversation         House Of America         Mother Courage And Her Children         Myth Of Michael Roderick, The         Rain Dogs         Song From A Forgotten City         Stone City Blue

Adar Heb Adenydd

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in Welsh - Birds Without Wings

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-    1989

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Anna Christie

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by Joe Masteroff; Music And lyrics by Ed Thomas. Based on the play by Eugene O'Neill

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-    2006

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Drive On

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East From the Gantry

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Bella met Ronnie by phoning him up at random. Trampas called himself Trampas after the sixties series the Virginian because he had no home. Bella met Trampas on a derelict hill. Ronnie shot dead a cat he thought was Martin Bratton. A moving investigation of a cold and cruel world.

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Part of the New Wales Trilogy

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Seren Books, 1993   -

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  8 characters

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Envy

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1st Produced:
-    1993

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Fiction Factory

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Flowers

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composer John Hardy text Ed Thomas

1st Produced:
-    1994

Organisations:
Music Theatre Wales

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Flowers Of the Dead Red Sea

Synopsis:
Mock and Joe are denizens of the slaughterhouse. Blood-spattered, half-naked, their conversations boil with hilarity and rage as random objects fall from the sky

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Part of the New Wales Trilogy

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Y Cwmni

1st Published:
Seren Books, 1993   -

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Gas Station Angels

Synopsis:
what do Bron and Ace need with the past when they've got imagination and a tinted glass blue Marina 1800 TC ready to drive into the heart of Saturday night? This work is partly an art installation and partly a tense generational conflict, set in and around a house poised to fall into the sea.

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1st Produced:
New Playhouse, Newcastle    1998

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Y Cwmni

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Gwlad yr Addewid

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A Welsh language version of House of America, by playwright Ed Thomas, Gwlad yr Addewid is a tale of a beautiful but hopeless fight against circumstance and the death of an American dream. Set in a bypassed Welsh town, a father abandons his family for America, leaving his wife and three kids behind to dream about the possibility of something better.

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1st Produced:
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff    14 Oct 2010

Organisations:
Theatr Genedlaeethol Cymru

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Hiraeth / Strangers In Conversation

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House Of America

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House of America is an explosive passionate play about a family in Wales. After their truck-driver Father left to start a new life for himself in America (because the roads are straighter), Sid and Gwenny created a fantasy world based on Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and they may be getting rather too close. Boyo, their brother, is a hometown boy with no home. their mam goes mad after killing a cat called Brando and her agitation increases as the local open cast mine encroaches on land ever nearer to the family home. She has a secret - only, it isn't secret.

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Part of the New Wales Trilogy

1st Produced:
St Stephen's Theatre, Cardiff    1988

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Seren Books, 1993   -

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Mother Courage And Her Children

Synopsis:
National Theatre Wales returns to its birthplace in the south Wales valleys for the first production in its fifth season - a bold, anarchic new version of Bertolt Brechts 1939 anti-war play performed in and around the Merthyr Labour Club. "There once was a mother, Mother Courage they called her, in the Thirty Years War, she sold victuals to soldiers. the war did not scare her, from making her cut, her three children went with her, and so got their bit. Her first son died a hero, the second an honest lad, a bullet found her daughter, whose heart was too good."
Bertolt Brecht

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht In translation by John Willett Revised by Ed Thomas Lyrics revised by Dafydd James & Ed Thomas Directed by John E McGrath

1st Produced:
Merthyr Labour Club, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales    07 May 2015

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National Theatre of Wales

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Adaptation

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Male:  19            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Myth Of Michael Roderick, The

Synopsis:
exposes all forms of determinism and integration into the fictious cult of normality as essentially fears of freedom

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aka Adar heb Adenydd

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Rain Dogs

Synopsis:
Two men in a room; twenty monologues recorded on video; improvised texts and a live mix of the lot supervised by a visual artist. It doesn't sound like the terrain usually associated with Welsh playwright Ed Thomas, but that's what's he's exploring this month in the company of Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes. A new media performance assembling texts, films and telling stories played out in the city. Performed live by Mike Pearson and Ed Thomas with a cast of 10 actors on film.

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written by Mike Pearson, Mike Brookes And Ed Thomas

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Pearson Brookes

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Song From A Forgotten City

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Set in an imagined Welsh city on rugby international day, three men, one dream and a rollercoaster ride to the heart of the imagination. A powerful and evocative search for the soul of a city

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Fiction Factory

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Stone City Blue

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Stone City Blue has no discernible plot, setting or characters. Instead we have a quartet of young actors designated R 1-4, who scuttle around the stage in a kind of synchronised choreography, complete each other's sentences and dress like models from a casual-wear catalogue. R1 describes herself at one point as a lapsed Christian. R3 may be a whore; R4 is possibly a failed poet while R2 is the one who has a thing about trouser presses. they communicate in a series of bilious outbursts against the corporate world interspersed with rapid-fire question-and-answer sessions of the "Who am I? What am I? and What am I doing here?" variety: to which the answer is I haven't the faintest idea nor do I particularly care. - Alfred Hickling, Guardian

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Clwyd theatr Cymru

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