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Simon Harris

SIMON HARRIS  

 Nationality:    Welsh
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  represented by Charlotte Knight


Simon Harris is a dramatist and theatre director. Born and brought up in Swansea, Simon studied English at University College, London and originally trained as an actor at RaDa. Until 2007, Simon was artistic Director of the national company for new writing in Wales - the multi-award-winning Sgript Cymru, which he then followed with participation on the prestigious Clore Leadership Programme - one of only a small number of theatre directors to be involved so far. as a dramatist, Simon's first original play Badfinger premiered at The Donmar Warehouse and was nominated in The Most Promising Playwright category of The Evening Standard Drama awards in 1997. He then went on to write Wales>alaska for The Royal National Theatre Studio and Garageland, which toured Wales andEngland with the Steel Wasps. Subsequent commissions include Milk and Honey for Soho Theatre Company and Mog's Rock - a comedy series for Presentable Productions/BBC Wales. In 2000, Simon founded Sgript Cymru and began work as its associate Director. He became artistic Director in 2001, responsible for over twenty new productions and a rolling programme of writer development. His directing work for Sgript Cymru includes Franco's Bastard by Dic Edwards (Best New Play TiW awards 2003), past away by Tracy Harris, Indian Country by Meic Povey (Best actress and Best Newcomer TiW awards 2004), Gary Owen's Ghost City(Best New Play and Best actress TiW awards 2005), which took the company to New York for the first time, Crossings by Clare Duffy, which played in Wales, London and Edinburgh, and Meic Povey's Life of Ryan& and Ronnie (Best Production and Best actor TiW awards 2006), which featured in a BBC Wales documentary and will soon be a major new film for S4C. acqua Nero by Meredydd Barker was his seventh and final production for the company before its successful merger with The Sherman Theatre, Cardiff's main producing theatre. His other directing credits include Forever Yours Marie Lou (BaC), Nothing to Pay, which he also adapted from the novel by Caradoc Evans (BaC and tour), The Dresser (Plymouth Theatre Royal) and Badfinger (Swansea Grand Theatre and tour).

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 Badfinger         Garageland         Milk And Honey         Nothing To Pay         Wales>Alaska

Badfinger

Synopsis:
Set within the confines of a Swansea bric-a-brac shop during a rain-sodden 48 hours, the action centres on its owner, Meyrick, a man who has spent a lifetime believing in the value of things that others deem worthless. This undisputed maestro of the amateur musical scene takes a homeless teenager, Johnnie, under his wing - an innocent man-child with a beautiful singing voice. Yet Meyrick is a volatile character with ambitious plans for his prodigy. When another mixed-up and vulnerable boy, Leyton, arrives on the scene questions begin to be asked - is Meyrick a sad and lonely man preying on the young and vulnerable or is there a more innocent explanation. add to this a sinister minister and the stormiest night in Welsh history and you have an equation that can only equal an electrifying night of darkly comic mayhem

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Thin Language

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Garageland

Synopsis:
Based on a true story of a man with numerous stab wounds to his back who drove his car over the Severn Bridge

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toured Wales    1999

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Steel Wasp Theatre Co

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Milk And Honey

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Soho Theatre Company

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Nothing To Pay

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based on novel by Caradoc Evans

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adaptation

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Wales>Alaska

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Royal National Theatre Studio, London    1998

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Royal National Theatre Studio

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