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Tim Fountain

TIM FOUNTAIN

  (1967 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Tim Fountain (born 23 December 1967, in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire) both teaches playwriting and is a playwright himself - his Resident Alien and Julie Burchill is Away are published by NHB - as well as having been literary manager at the Bush Theatre, London, where he encountered hundreds of hopeful plays and playwrights. He achieved notoriety with Sex Addict in Edinburgh and the Royal Court, London.

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         Arrivederci Barnsley         Beyond the Fringe         Dandy In the Underworld         Deep Rimming in Poplar         Harold's Day         H-O-T-B-O-I         How To Lose Friends And Alienate People         Julie Burchill Is Away         Julie Burchill: Absolute Cult         Last Bus From Bradford, The         Midnight Cowboy         Queen of the Nile         Resident Alien         Right Pair         Rock         Sex Addict         Tchaikovsky In the Park

Arrivederci Barnsley

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Channel 4 Sitcom Festival

1st Produced:
Riverside, London >>>    08 Jul 1998

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Genre:
short play

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Beyond the Fringe

Synopsis:
about the Guardian-reading bien-pensants it sets out to satirise. - Guardian

Notes:
part of "Walking the Tightrope: The tension between art and politics"

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Offstage Theatre Production, in association with Theatre Uncut

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Genre:
10 min political play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dandy In the Underworld

Dandy In the Underworld
With a childhood surrounded by alcoholism and petty cruelties, an adolescence of rebellion and punkish anarchy and an adulthood peppered with heroin addiction, voluntary crucifixion, failed suicide and a penchant for sex with prostitutes, Sebastian Horsley's life was always destined to become a work of art. an artist, dandy and author who was perhaps best known for having undergone a voluntary crucifixion in the Philippines before beginning a regular column in the erotic Review Horsley's memoirs focused on his dysfunctional family, his drug addictions, sex, and his love of prostitutes, and unsurprisingly became a cult literary sensation. Soho theatre's theatrical version, has been adapted from Horsley's no-holds-barred memoir and directed by fellow moral delinquent Tim Fountain.

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1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>    978-1849431149

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Deep Rimming in Poplar

Synopsis:
A comedic look at the whole business of internet sex and what it means to be an older gay man living in London in 2004. the play concerns a 60-something ex club performer living with his partner of 25 years who gets his first computer. Struggling to master the internet, he ends up on Gaydar's dating website where he discovers and unimagined world of free sex. He befriends a younger guy and nervously he agrees to have lunch with him. . .

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Genre:
Gay, full length

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Harold's Day

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1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>    1989

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Play/Drama

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H-O-T-B-O-I

Synopsis:
Sixty something working class Reg is having an affair with a twenty-one year old guy

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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How To Lose Friends And Alienate People

Synopsis:
Back in the mid-1990s, Toby Young was a well-connected London journalist. then he landed a job on Vanity Fair and thought that New York was his for the taking. New York took him and spat out the pips; Young promptly turned the experience into a bestselling book about failure, casting himself as a self-deprecating englishman up against a city and culture obsessed with wealth and celebrity. Mostly, though, it was poor Toby moaning about how he couldn't get into the best parties or get laid, and showing off his english superiority over all those shallow New Yorkers. - Lyn Gardner, Guardian

Notes:
adaptation of Toby Young book

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Organisations:
Soho Theatre Company, London

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Julie Burchill Is Away

Synopsis:
From her humble beginnings as a 'hip young gunslinger' on the NMe, Julie Burchill went on to become Britain's highest paid 80's hack and the iconoclast of her generation. Her distinctly un private life has become the stuff of media legend.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Fat Bloke Productions

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2002   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Julie Burchill: Absolute Cult

Synopsis:
The Queen of Spleen reigns supreme! Tim Fountain (Sex Addict, Resident Alien) brings you this uproarious sequel to 2004 smash Julie Burchill is Away. Starring Lizzie Roper. Director: Mike Bradwell. 'A cracker' (Spectator). 'Disgusting' (Sunday Times).

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1st Produced:
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    30 Jul 2014

Organisations:
Tim Fountain, Lizzie Roper, Seabright Productions, Gilded Balloon, Festival Highlights

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Genre:
Comedy, True-life, 1 hour

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Last Bus From Bradford, The

Synopsis:
Its 1977, Silver Jubilee year and Starsky and Hutch are on TV - but for Tom its more than a programme its more a way of life. But when Tom is sent to a local private school all that is to change. . .

Notes:
Winner of the 1996 Pink Paper Play award (best lesbian or gay play)

1st Produced:
Chelsea Theatre, London >>>    22 Apr 1997

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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Midnight Cowboy

Synopsis:
based on the novel which inspired the triple Oscar-winning film. Joe Buck is the handsome, naive cowboy seeking his fortune as a gigolo in New York City, where he meets a small-time con with big dreams - Ratso Rizzo. their unlikely friendship transcends their lonely, dog-eat-dog experiences on the hard-luck streets of Manhattan. a classic portrayal of the dark underbelly of the American Dream.

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based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy And the MGM movie.

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Genre:
adaptation. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Queen of the Nile

Synopsis:
Debbie is 40 and single, she's behind on her Christmas hamper money and has served one too many sausages to her customers in 'Burger Off' in Wakefield. When her best friend gives her the chance to escape, she grabs it with both hands. A week in a five star hotel on the banks of the river Nile seems like the perfect way to escape her Full english life. enter Mahmoud - a sexy young boat captain who might be just a little too young for her - but is he the man of Debbie's dreams? Or is he simply taking her up the Nile?

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Resident Alien

Resident Alien
a biography of Quentin Crisp in his New York Flat

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1st Produced:
Bush Theatre, London >>>    10 Nov 1999

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>    978-1854596574

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Right Pair

Synopsis:
A celebration of the life of two gay men, partners onstage and off over 30 years. Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw have been partners both offstage and on since the late 1970s. In this whistle stop tour of their life together they explore some of their favourite scenes, some obscure gems and some things completely new. Join them for the triumph and despair, the giddy high heel moments and occasional down at heel moments of what it means to be - A Right Pair - onstage and off

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with others

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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Rock

Synopsis:
Rock brings the seamy world of 1950's Hollywood to vivid life. Rock Hudson was the biggest screen idol in 1950's La - the ultimate Hollywood hunk. But his career was perpetually under threat from Confidential Magazine, every gay actor's nemesis: and only one man stood between stardom and oblivion. Rock is the story of Henry Willson, the man who made a star of Rock Hudson; the most unscrupulous agent in Los Angeles; the man who would do anything to protect his money-spinning protege.

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Bette Bourne Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  additional voices

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Sex Addict

Synopsis:
the form of the show is distressingly simple. First, Fountain reports back on the previous evening's sexual encounter: we even get to see the videotaped post-coital verdict of his east end male date, who somewhat crushingly announces: "You can't expect too much from a stranger." Online applicants to Fountain's personal website are then invited, along with any member of the audience who so wishes, to have sex with him. Pressed into voting, we overwhelmingly chose a fellow spectator who dutifully went off to the dressing rooms to furnish our hero with his nightly fix. - Billington, Guardian

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2004

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Genre:
Solo Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tchaikovsky In the Park

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Springboard

1st Published:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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