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Leah Chillery

LEAH CHILLERY

  
Nationality:    British
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Leah is an actress and a writer. Her 3rd commissioned Radio Play WALKING ON SUNSHINE was recently broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Leah was one of six writers selected for a place on the much coveted first BBC College of Comedy. Where Leah was commissioned to script a pilot of her own original sitcom 'MIX UP'. She has also storylined for BBC 3's TWO PINTS OF LAGER AND A PACKET OF CRISPS and GROWN UPS. Leah was also one of the co-writer's of the hit play, 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER, that was produced at the Latitude Festval and the Bush Theatre.

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

         50 Ways To Leave Your Lover         Blue         Come to Where I am From         Earl Of Mo'Bay         Minority Rapport         Mummy Mafia         Pap-Unzel         Random Acts

50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

Synopsis:
an evening of heart break and misery

Notes:
By Lucy Chillery, Ben ellis, Stacey Green, Lucy Kirkwood, Ben Schiffer

1st Produced:

Organisations:
commissioned by Latitude Festival, Suffolk

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
60 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Blue

Synopsis:
Blue Sampsons been shot in the leg but who dunnit? He seems to have crossed so many different people since the death of his mother that he just doesn't know who to trust. But he has to figure out who did it before he leaves the cover of the hospital. I mean, they could still be out there and this time they might finish the job, ya get me?

Notes:
directed by Jim Findley

1st Produced:
Nottingham Arts theatre    2004

Organisations:
Full Hundred Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play One act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Come to Where I am From

Synopsis:
Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. 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.

Notes:
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Organisations:
Paines Plough

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Earl Of Mo'Bay

Synopsis:
a Rom-Com with shades on. British girls Gillian and Dinah arrive in Montego Bay, Jamaica for a last minute break before winter but a week soon becomes a lifetime, as the local gigolos queue up for the tourists' affections. But it is beach boys earl and Dique who manage to win them over. Is earl a gigolo? Will Dique toughen up and get his girl? What is Gillian's problem and will the mozzies ever leave off her behind? When will Dinah start thinking about anyone but herself? Can long distance relationships work and can friendships survive the heat of a low budget Mo'Bay hotel room? the answers will "soon come".

Notes:
the original production was directed by esther Richardson As the only headliner At the 2006 Momentum Young Writers Festival.

1st Produced:
Lakeside Arts theatre    2006

Organisations:
Theatre Writing Partnership

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Minority Rapport

Synopsis:
Become' is a leader like no other. He can become anything and anyone. He has thousands of loyal followers who think of him as a God'. However, the everyday powers that be, feel threatened by Become' and seek to capture him and take his powers. Will they succeed? What will that mean for humanity? and what can Becomes' followers learn from an idol who can feel the whole world's pain?

Notes:
Directed by Marcus Hercules. Music by Jason Singh. Producer Shabnam Shabazi. Minority Rapport was the CYaC summer production At Contact theatre

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Contact Young actors Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  15            Other:  -

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Mummy Mafia

Synopsis:
Mummy Mafia brings us the luxurious lives of yummy mummies, Jessica and Trisha, who spend their time fawning over their latest 4x4s, gloating over their husbands incomes and obsessing over whichever parenting scheme they are piloting in the private school playground of St Helens. However, it all changes with the arrival of working class Siobhan and her wayward son Cregg. In a bid to drive the riff-raff out of their wealthy Nottingham suburb for good the Mummy Mafia is born. Mummy Mafia is a dark comedy that explores class politics, racial identity and the expectations and pressures on women today through the lives of three women fighting a playground war in which their pride isnt the only casualty.

Notes:
written And performed by Rachael Young, Natalya Brown And Leah Chillery. First commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse in April 2011, Mummy Mafia was created As part of their programme of developing culturally diverse talent in theatre

1st Produced:
the Corby Cube, George Street, NN17 1QG, UK    23 Mar 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Pap-Unzel

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Green Light Theatre Company, Manchester    2001

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Random Acts

Synopsis:
"Bet you're glad you're moving in now, with a stripper and an agoraphobe to call your flatmates." Set in a grubby council flat on Hyson Green the story centres around Hugh and Charlotte, an unlikely couple living in sin. the zany pair are completely unaware that their cosy lives are about to change when the mysterious Faith arrives.

Notes:
the original production was directed by Stephen Luckie As part of the Momentum Young Writers Festival, the first event of its kind in the east Midlands

1st Produced:
Nottingham, England    2005

Organisations:
Theatre Writing Partnership

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Short Play One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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