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Kefi Chadwick

KEFI CHADWICK

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Kefi Chadwick is a multi award winning writer. Her play, Mathematics of the Heart, won Best New Play at Brighton Festival in 2011 and went on to a sell out run at Theatre 503, London in 2012. Her two short plays, SexLife and La Petite Mort played at Latitude Festival and in Edinburgh in 2012 and 2013. She also created a bespoke piece of theatre for Latitude in 2013 which then went on to be developed by the Arts Council and resulted an interactive show called How Was It For You? which premiered at Brighton Dome, Feb 2015. She has also contributed to Paines Plough Come To Where I'm From. Her first short film, Cregan, won at Waterford film festival and screened nationally and internationally. Her second,Girlpower, won Best Comedy Short at Aesthetica film festival 2014 and again screened nationally and internationally. Her current short, SexLife, has screened at 15 Oscar and BAFTA accredited festivals including Tribeca in the USA and Encounters in the UK. She is currently developing her first feature film with Ignition Films. For TV, Kefi has written for River City for BBC Scotland and is developing further TV projects with Lovely Day, Kudos, Greenacre Films and Noho Film and TV. Kefi was also on the Royal Court Writers' programme and is currently one of the 18 writers on iWrite, a Creative England initiative that is developing for the screen the most interesting emerging voices from across the UK.

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         Any Means Necessary         Below Zero         Cabaret On A Sinking Ship         Come To Where I'm From         Deal         Eden         Embers         How Was It For You?         I'm Really Glad We Had That Chat         La Petite Mort         Mathematics Of the Heart         Punch Bag         SexLife

Any Means Necessary

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Your friends. . .how long have you known them? Or your partner? Three? Four years? Do you tell them your innermost thoughts, your deepest secrets? Do you know theirs? Now imagine that everything they have ever told you is a lie. "Once you've opened the door to an impossible truth, everything else becomes unstable. What's real and what isn't becomes impossible to tell." When Mel meets Dave at a protest, she believes she has met her kindred spirit. Before long, Dave becomes central to her life and her activist friends. But is he too good to be true? Inspired by real-life events, Any Means Necessary is a gripping new play that focuses on the human story at the heart of a national scandal. When an undercover police officer who had been living amongst an activist community in Nottingham was exposed in 2011, it lifted the lid on a whole series of covert policing operations dating back decades. Revelations of women co-erced into relationships with these officers has resulted in a public apology from the Met Police and an admission that their behaviour was an abuse of the women's human rights. A major public inquiry begins in 2016 and is expected to run for 3 years. On for a strictly limited run at Nottingham Playhouse, Any Means Necessary is a compelling drama exploring love, betrayal, secrets and lies and exposing the emotional brutality of a police policy that used any means necessary to undermine political protest.

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Investigative Drama 165 min

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Below Zero

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Marta wants to disappear, Michael can't stop growing. after a chance encounter in a hospital waiting area, their paths merge and between them they create a burlesque fantasy world where they are the ringmasters. But when their reality is shattered, can this world help them survive and what happens when the lines between fantasy and reality are lost?

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Using Proteus' distinctive style of fusing circus, film And physical theatre, this is An exploration of modern Attitudes toward our own bodies And the obsession with perfection At Any cost. Developed in Association with Greenwich theatre And Anvil Arts Basingstoke.

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Cabaret On A Sinking Ship

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Cabaret on a Sinking Ship uses a rousing blend of politics, satire, song, sex and laughter to capture the spirit of the naughty noughties', much in the same way cabaret artists of the 1930's responded to their broken society. Part cabaret, part musical theatre, part straight theatre, Cabaret on a Sinking Ship entertainingly explores the darkness behind the cabaret glitter.

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Workshop Production, Nightingale Theatre, Brighton     26 Sep 2009

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Come To Where I'm From

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Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.

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The Theatre Chipping Norton     07 Jun 2012

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Paines Plough

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Deal

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Nightingale Theatre, Brighton    

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Eden

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Play reading at the Old Vic, London    

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Embers

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A play about the dangerous nature of female friendship, obsession and violence.

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Long-listed for the Verity Bargate Award.

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How Was It For You?

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Interactive play about sex and intimacy.

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Brighton Dome     Feb 2015

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Funded by The Arts Council

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I'm Really Glad We Had That Chat

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part of MINIATURISTS 38, 5 brand new small but perfectly formed plays

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La Petite Mort

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Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     Aug 2012

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Mathematics Of the Heart

Mathematics Of the Heart
What happens when love doesn't add up? Dr Paul MacMillan is a professor of Chaos theory. Specialist subject: storm patterns. a month after the death of his father, Paul's life has ground to a halt. With his itinerant ne'er do well brother, Chancer, in his spare room, his girlfriend Emma pushing for a future and the arrival of a beautiful new PhD student , Zainab, prediction is proving increasingly difficult. then the discovery of his father's final and surprise possession catapults Paul's world into real chaos.

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Winner Brighton Fringe Festival New Writing South Best New Play 2011

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Marlborough Little Theatre, Brighton     24 May 2011

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Prescription Productions

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Methuen Drama, London   978-1408178454

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Punch Bag

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Multi-discipline public art theatre installation in Basingstoke and Southampton

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Proteus Theatre Company

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SexLife

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Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     Aug 2012

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