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Mike Bradwell

MIKE BRADWELL

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    represented by Wintersons

Mike Bradwell trained at East Fifteen Acting School. He played Norman in Mike Leighs award winning film Bleak Moments and worked as an Underwater Escapologist and Fireater with Hirsts Charivari and as an Actor / Musician with the Ken Campbell Roadshow. He founded Hull Truck Theatre Company in 1971 and directed all their shows for 10 years including his own devised plays Oh What!, Bridgets House, A Bed Of Roses, Ooh La La! and Still Crazy After All These Years. Hull Truck toured nationally and internationally and was the first British Fringe company to be invited to the National Theatre and to create work for BBC Television. Mike has directed over 40 shows for The Bush Theatre where he was Artistic Director from 1996 to 2007. These include Hard Feelings by Doug Lucie, Unsuitable For Adults by Terry Johnson, The Fosdsyke Sagas by Bill Tidy and Alan Plater, Love And Understanding by Joe Penhall (also at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven), Dogs Barking by Richard Zajdliz, Dead Sheep, Shang-a-Lang and Little Baby Nothing by Catherine Johnson, Howie The Rookie by Mark ORowe (also Dublin and Edinburgh Festivals, PS122 New York, The Magic Theatre, San Francisco and European Tour) Normal by Helen Blakeman, Flamingos by Jonathan Hall, Blackbird by Adam Rapp, Resident Alien by Tim Fountain (also New York Theatre Workshop, European and Australian tour) Airsick by Emma Frost, When You Cure Me, By Jack Thorne, adrenalin&heart by Georgia Fitch (also Setagaya Theatre Tram Tokyo), The Glee Club by Richard Cameron (also Duchess Theatre, Galway Festival and national tour), The Girl With Red Hair by Sharman Macdonald (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh and Hampstead Theatre), Crooked by Catherine Trieschman and Pumpgirl by Abbie Spallen (Edinburgh Festival) Other work includes Mrs Gauguin and Mrs Vershinin by Helen Cooper (Almeida, Riverside and Kampnagel, Hamburg), Tuesdays Child by Terry Johnson (Stratford East} The Cockroach Trilogy by Alan Williams (National and international tour), The Dalkey Archive by Flann OBrien (Long Wharf Theatre) and productions at The Tricycle Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Kings Head Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, The Science Fiction Theatre Of Liverpool, The National Theatre Of Brent, The Rude Players of Manitoba and The Royal Court Theatre, where he was Associate Director. In addition Mike has written and directed for film, television and radio including The Writing On The Wall, Games Without Frontiers, Chains Of Love, Happy Feet, and I Am A Donut. Mikes 2010 production of D.C Moores The Empire at the Royal Court was nominated for both the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards and won the TMA Award for best touring production. His book on alternative theatre, The Reluctant Escapologist was nominated for the Sheridan Morley Prize and won the STR Theatre Book of the Year Award. Mikes new book on devising and directing, Inventing The Truth will be published by Nick Hern Books in Spring 2012.

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         Bed Of Roses, A         Bridget's House         China         Granny Calls the Tune         Knowledge, The         Oh What!         Ooh La La!         Still Crazy After All these Years

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Knowledge, The

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Oh What!

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Ooh La La!

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Still Crazy After All these Years

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