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Lily Bevan

LILY BEVAN

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Independent Talent Group Limited  

Lily Bevan writes for the Huffington Post, and is currently developing projects for the Kings Head Theatre and BBC Radio 4. She is also working with writer/actress Emma Thompson developing a new screenplay.

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below is a list of Lily Bevan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Around-the-Globe Chain Play         Avocado         Celebrity Night at Cafe Red         Mock Tudor         Partridge         Pheasant Plucker         Stab In the Dark, A         Stephen And the Sexy Partridge         Zoo
Around-the-Globe Chain Play

Synopsis:
Starting and ending in NYC, a play will be written as it travels around the world making 15 stops with playwrights from across the globe. Each playwright will contribute the next one to four pages of text, moving the plot forward from where the previous playwright left off. The reading will be followed by a World Theatre Day Reception where a number of NYC theatre luminaries will read the International Theatre Institute's World Theatre Day Message that will be written this year by South African playwright, designer, director, and installation-maker, Brett Bailey.

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The playwrights include Lisa Kron (USA, NYC), Aditi Kapil (USA, Minneapolis), Nicolas Billon (Canada), Luz Estrada (Colombia), Thomas Sainsbury (New Zealand), Nick Yu (China), Anuvab Pal (India), Oded Liphshiz (Israel), Lily Bevan (United Kingdom), Nina Mitrovic (Croatia), Phillip M Dikotla (South Africa), Amy Conroy (Ireland), Lana Nasser (The Netherlands), Sol Rodriguez Seoane (Argentina), and Chisa Hutchinson (USA, NYC).

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Genre:
staged reading

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Avocado

Synopsis:
eclectic evening of colourful character monologues set either side of the pond. a New York - London fusion, come and meet a series of characters who may win your heart, freak you out, challenge your preconceptions. . .

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writtenBekah Brunstetter And Lily Bevan

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Oslip Theatre

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Genre:
monologues

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Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Celebrity Night at Cafe Red

Synopsis:
Saturday Night at Cafe Red, the Frenchest chain restaurant in town - with plastic onions, checked tablecloths, and rustic Provencial paraphernalia to prove it. But this is a night of change, of fresh ideas - visiting Celebrity Chef extraordinaire Roly Ryan is in the kitchen whisking up trouble. How can he know his Diners have also brought their own unusual ingredients to the table? An evening of love, of awkwardness, danger and mime. This tasty black comedy will surprise and delight. Bon Appetit.

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Oslip Theatre

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Mock Tudor

Synopsis:
Welcome to Hampton Court Palace. The year is 1533. Please turn off your mobile phones. Jess, Sophie and Sam re-enact Henry VIII's weddings, feasts and river pageants. They take pride in authenticity. Well, they try. They aren't sure if potatoes exist yet. Can you wear glasses with a kirtle? Now visitor operations have ideas about the future of the past - it has never been more vital to keep the Tudors alive. From the writer of Stephen and the Sexy Partridge, Trafalgar Studios: 'One of the funniest offerings in the West End this season' (Stage).

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Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    

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Genre:
Comedy 60 min

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Partridge

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Pheasant Plucker

Pheasant Plucker
Is laughter really the best medicine? Isn't medicine the best medicine? Yoga? Scandinavian design? Buns? Sticking to your guns? Plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucking's done? Imaginative. Not about Tinder. Worth a look.

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Underbelly Med Quad, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     Aug 2015

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Genre:
short comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Stab In the Dark, A

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Latitude Theatre Festival    

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Stephen And the Sexy Partridge

Synopsis:
crazed and ebullient story of one man and a game chick transforms the twelve days of Christmas into an episodic orgy of insurgent hens, dancing potatoes and eloquent cattle.

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By Lily Bevan And Finnian O'Neill

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Osip Th

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  1            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Zoo

Synopsis:
Miami Zoo and a hurricane is due. Two zoo keepers Carol who looks after the bats and Bonny who has among other things anteaters in her care must make the sure the animals are safe from the impending storm

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1st Produced:
Vault Festival     Mar 2020

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Genre:
Drama

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