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Ella Carmen Greenhill

ELLA CARMEN GREENHILL

  (1984 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Lindsy Bender

Ella was writer on attachment with both Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Paines Plough and is a Royal Court Studio writers group alumnus. She is one of the winning writers for ITV's Coronation Street Original Voices for BAME writers. She is currently one of the 503Five Writers in residence and her play, Straw House was longlisted for the 503 Playwriting Award. Her play, Made in Britain, was at the Old Red Lion Theatre in January 2015 and received 4 stars from the Times who described her as "a talent of tremendous promise" and described the play as "incendiary". Her new play Plastic Figurines will tour with Box of Tricks Theatre in spring 2015 and will be published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. She is currently developing work with Sheer Drop and Theatre Renegade. As well as across the UK, Ella's work has been performed in Mexico, New York, Madrid and Romania.

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below is a list of Ella Carmen Greenhill's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Broken         Deafening Silence, The         Fallen         Into the Water         Made In Britain         Mind the Gap         Pages From My Songbook         Perfect Christmas, A         Plastic Figurines         Unspoken

Broken

Synopsis:
In Broken, May is desperately searching for something, whilst Helen had everything she ever wanted and saw it all snatched away. As May searches for meaning, for something to hold, she finds herself torn between two people and two agonising choices.

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Organised Chaos Productions

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short play

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Deafening Silence, The

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Liverpool everyman theatre's Annual everyword festival for new writing And Aspiring writers has been relocated to the Liverpool Playhouse for this year while the everyman undergoes extensive refurbishment.

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Fallen

Synopsis:
May is looking for something. . .a connection. . .a life. But is it safer to be alone? "Some people get so lost they don't find their way at all" May meets Carla on a freezing day in January and they connect. Instantly. Carla likes the spring and has forgotten her gloves. May wears two pairs. Tom tells May he loves her and buys her a stick of rock. Someone is calling May. Does she need them? Or do they need her? a play about life and teetering on the edge. Sometimes we all need to escape. But just how far can we go?

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Rehearsed Reading Of Excerpts At Hampstead Theatre, London    Feb 2009

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Into the Water

Synopsis:
It's the year 2051. a tsunami off the east coast of Britain has forced many to flee inland to escape the flooding. Jack and Leah sit uncomfortably in their unfamiliar bedsit, watching the rain, eating grey food, waiting for Isaac. Indian born amina, heavily pregnant, chats with Jack over lunches of Turkey paste sandwiches and hot water with milk. With the world falling apart, can two people hold each other together? a play about losing and finding people.

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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading, Liverpool Everyman Theatre.    May 2010

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Made In Britain

Synopsis:
Our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners, it hasn't told us about the gutters or the suicides. - Charles Bukowski What if one day you woke up and realised that no one cares what you have to say? That there's no real way for you to make your mark? That you haven't got a chance and, more importantly, you never had a chance? What would you do, finally, to get your point across? Danny's had enough, he's been told all his life to follow his dreams but it's all been a lie. After the death of his father he decides he must do something. With not a penny in his pocket and with anger in his heart, he makes his way down to London to the G8 summit with a can of petrol and some matches. Nina's mum's ill and she's off to London to meet the one other person that made her; she's off to see her estranged father. But instead of a family reunion, she finds herself covered in blood, slumped on a patch of grass, surrounded by G8 protestors. These two characters meet and form an unlikely friendship. In a world of so much ugliness and anger can they save each other, or is it just too late for both of them? Made in Britain explores the disenfranchisement of today's youth, pain, friendship and the politics of protest.

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Mind the Gap

Synopsis:
Nina is a young, Liverpool woman on a London tube carriage, when the carriage shudders to a halt it's obvious that something serious has happaned. Trapped, Nina and her fellow passengers have to talk. Pimento theatre invite you to immerse yourself and experience the character's external and internal thoughts and watch as their interlocking stories unravel. An innovative theatrical experience, in a story exploring modern Britain today and the gaps that exist between ourselves and others.

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Written and created by Ella Carmen Greenhill, Rachel Worsley and Joe Ward Munrow

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Pimento Theatre

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Pages From My Songbook

Synopsis:
North West professional playwrights collective the Alligator Club is set to stage a festival of short plays inspired by music at the Studio at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre on July 19-20. Pages From My Songbook is billed as a mix tape of theatre, with 18 short plays featuring live music, all the length of a song, which explore love, life, loneliness and lager. Against the backdrop of a dusky festival night, it will immerse the audience in stories that blur the lines between a theatrical and festival experience, as short stories and musicians evoke the spirit of a festival.

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Written by Miriam Battye, Ella Carmen Greenhill, Becky Prestwich, Lee Thompson, Jennifer Tuckett and Kim Wiltshire.

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Organisations:
Alligator Club

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Music by Alice Kirwan, Irfan Rainy, Vidar Norhei

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Perfect Christmas, A

Synopsis:
It's Christmas Day. Sylvia and John are the perfect cheery couple making their fluffy roast potatoes a la Delia and setting the table together. But who is the old woman who disrupts their day and forces Sylvia to confront her demons? as Sylivia's dream world collides with the harsh realities of her life, who can we trust and what has really happened to this perfect couple?

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Part of Miniaturists 26 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

1st Produced:
The Cornerstone Theatre, Liverpool    20 Nov 2010

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almanac and the Miniaturists

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Genre:
Dark comedy

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Plastic Figurines

Synopsis:
Rose loves her brother Mikey. Mikey loves Rose, Bruce Willis films and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but he hates change. When their mum is diagnosed with Leukemia, their world is plunged into chaos. Rose returns home to find a very different brother to when she left. But today is his eighteenth birthday and Rose wants everything to be perfect, but life with Mikey isn't ever that simple. Inspired by events in the playwrights own life, Plastic Figurines is a funny and moving play that explores the relationship between siblings with very different views on the world.

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Plastic Figurines began life as a short as part of Word:Play with Box of Tricks. Bolton: Octagon Theatre, England 02 mar 2013

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Box of Tricks

1st Published:
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (08 April 2015)   978-1474258401

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Genre:
drama

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Unspoken

Synopsis:
a short play looking at a mother and daughters difficult relationship after years of not speaking.

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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool    Jul 2009

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