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David Cosgrove

DAVID COSGROVE

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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David has extensive writing credits for Theatre, radio, and television, with his most recent series for Citv - UNCLe DaD - winning a Lloyds TSB BAFTA award for Best Children's Television. With over 40 episodes broadcast in the UK and in international markets, other television series include BUTTeRFINGeRS (Citv), WOOLaMaLOO (ChAnnel 5), the ICeCReaM MaCHINe (ChAnnel 5), LaUGH OUT LOUD (Nickelodeon) and FBi (BBC Scotland). On radio, the sitcom KING OF the ROaD ran for two series on Radio 2, and David has had several thousand minutes of sketch comedy broadcast on BBC Radio. His adaptation of the novel GeORDIe for SYT Productions had its world premiere in New York in April 2006 and was then showcased at the Festival Theatre, edinburgh. a new production completed a successful Scottish tour in 2008, and a further production is plAnned for Toronto in 2011. WHeN a STaR FaLLS, his third successful collaboration with SYT Productions, toured Scotland in 2007 and also appeared in New York in April 2008 as part of the Scotland Week celebrations. He is now an associate artist with Scottish Youth Theatre and in addition to his writing commissions for the company has also devised and led writing workshops, including the Young Playwrights Course, 2009 Other awards include: a Guinness Pub Theatre award for the WOODTURNeR (Peninsula Theatre & Mull Theatre), Promax UK Gold and Silver awards for an enormously successful BBC promotions campaign, and an Edinburgh evening News National Production award for the musical THRee STePS TO HeaVeN. the world premiere of a new musical based on the lives of BONNIe aND CLYDe is scheduled for Germany in 2011. His current commissions include a new play commissioned by West end Producer, arden entertainment. For the BBC, he has been a script reader, comedy consultant, stand-up judge, and writing tutor. Other corporate clients have included Scottish Media Group, Diageo, British airways, British Telecom, and Scottish enterprise. He has been a guest lecturer at Baruch College, City University New York and, in 2008 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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

         Bonnie And Clyde         Dyin' For It         Frances & Ethel         Geordie         Heaven Can Wait         Three Steps To Heaven         When A Star Falls         Woodturner, The

Bonnie And Clyde

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book by David Cosgrove, lyrics by Peter callander, music by Geoff Stephens

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Germany    

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Dyin' For It

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a group of teenagers have just left school and are all dying for "it". Shona - the good time girl; gay enzo and Natalie who is still a virgin.

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Gay, theme/character, full length

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Frances & Ethel

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Ethel was no good for anything except to create chaos and fear. - Judy Garland about her mother. April 1961, a little rehearsal room in Manhattan, and Judy Garland is a day away from playing what will become the legendary Carnegie Hall concerts. Struggling under the crushing weight of expectation, not fully recovered from illness, she calls on her old friend Sal to keep her company, calm her nerves. Of course, Ethel shows up too - being dead is just a detail. Mothers and daughters, it's never easy.

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A Play, a Pie and a Pint

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short play

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Geordie

Synopsis:
Geordie is bullied at school because of his size so he sends away for a body building course

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Based on the book by David Walker

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Scottish Youth Theatre     2008

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Heaven Can Wait

Synopsis:
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and pilot Roger find themselves at the Celestial Soda Fountain. the last thing they can remember is leaving the Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake and boarding a plane

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From Idea By Simon Hart

1st Produced:
Perth/Tour, London     2003

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Josef Weinberger   978-0856762543

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Three Steps To Heaven

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Gateway, Chester     1994

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Compilation Musical

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When A Star Falls

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Is there intelligent life in Glasgow? One of the questions pondered by a group of teenagers who meet each Friday to star gaze

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Woodturner, The

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Mull     1999

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Play/Drama

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