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Arinze Kene

ARINZE KENE

  (1987 - )
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

Arinze Kene was born and raised in London to Nigerian parents. He trained and still works as an actor. Arinze is currently writing an original television series SUNSHINe with Acme Films for Channel4 as well as finishing his original feature film, SeeKeRS for Film London/Microwave with Strays Films which will shoot later in 2013. He has recently been involved in the story-lining and development of the second series of YOUNGeRS for e4, in which he plays Ashley. Arinze was awarded a Pearson Playwrights Bursary in 2012 and worked in conjunction with the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith where he is now under commission as part of their Secret Theatre season. He is also under commission to the Bush Theatre and English Touring Theatre. Arinze's stageplay GOD's PROPeRTY ran at Soho Theatre earlier this year, co-produced with Talawa. Arinze wrote an episode for series three of e20 on BBC3 and was subsequently part of an eASTeNDeRS trial scheme. In 2012 he took part of Channel 4's invited Screenwriting Course. LITTLe BABY JeSUS, directed by Che Walker, ran at the Oval House Theatre in May 2011 where his play eSTATe WALLS ran in 2010. For eSTATe WALLS Arinze was named 'Most Promising Playwright' at the Off West end Theatre Awards 2011 having been nominated for Best New Play and Most Promising Playwright. WILD CHILD was performed in 2011 as part of the Rough Cuts season at the Royal Court. Arinze wrote a wrap-around piece to the play FISHBONe called US & theM for Nabokov at the Bush Theatre in 2010 and wrote a short play, SUFFOCATION as part of Oval House's annual 33% Festival. Arinze was a member of the Young Writers' Programme and a writer's Super Group at the Royal Court Theatre. He was part of Soho Theatre's Young Writers' Group and Soho Theatre HUB writer's programme. Arinze was shortlisted for Off West end's 2010's 'Adopt a Playwright Award' and the 2009 Alfred Fagon Award.

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         Defined By Design         Estate Walls         God's Property         Little Baby Jesus         Suffocation         Us And them         Wild Child         Woosah

Defined By Design

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a lyrical exploration of the theme of unrequited love. a play for four voices, we are taken on a journey through the eyes of the lover unloved, with the pain and pragmatic humour of a scorned heart amidst the break-up of a romance.

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Old Vic New Voices And Time Warner launch Time Warner Ignite - A two-year programme to spark creativity Among 18-25 year old emerging Artists with the production of four new plays on Friday 3rd December At 3.00pm At the new Waterloo east theatre. the 2-year programme offers workshops, commissions And theatrical And film production opportunities to members of the Old Vic's 18-25 year old emerging Artists programme - the New Voices Club. Around each of the Old Vic's four Annual main-house shows, four Club writers will be commissioned to write A short play response. these plays will be cast with Club Actors, directed by Club directors And produced As one-off special industry showings by Club producers in the 160-seater partner venue for the project, Waterloo east theatre. At each of the eight presentations, Audiences will vote for one of the four plays to be Adapted into films. Club Artists will work with emerging film-makers And industry mentors to create A professional short, which will be uploaded to the partner website. For the final Hollywood twist, four of these films will be selected via An online poll on the website to win A place At A VIP industry screening At Time Warner's New York offices in 2012, hosted by the Old Vic's Artistic director, Kevin Spacey. the production on 3rd December will be of plays written in response to the Old Vic's production of Design for Living

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Estate Walls

Synopsis:
Obi, Cain and Myles are 20 years young. More like brothers than friends, they spend their time hatching plans on the walls of the estate. When Cain returns from prison they all must decide where they're heading.

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June 2011 part of Central Lines- new plays in development, exposing And exploring contemporary life. Performed by A company of Actors in our studio space, Central Lines delivers two weeks of new writing At its freshest, funniest, most moving And thought-provoking At Stratford east

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http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXX (2010) Page 1046

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God's Property

God's Property
A timely and compelling play about race, brotherhood and the weight of past mistakes. It's 1982. London is restless, gripped by spiralling unemployment and inner city riots. Ska beats dominate the airwaves and in a flat in Deptford, two mixed-race brothers are unexpectedly reunited. When Chima returns home, he finds that his sixteen-year-old brother Onochie has become a skinhead who no longer thinks of himself as black. Chima has been blamed for the death of a white girl and the hostile world outside won't rest until it delivers its rough justice. But will Onochie side with the community he's tried so hard to belong to, or stand by the brother he barely knows?

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Albany, Aldwych, London WC2B 4DH    20 Feb 2013

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Talawa Theatre Company, Soho Theatre

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Little Baby Jesus

Little Baby Jesus
Little Baby Jesus is a lyrical triptych of monologues revealing the inter-connected lives of three inner-city teenagers, capturing the exact moment each becomes an adult. Kehinde has a passion for light-skinned girls or otherwise known as. . .Mixed-raced girl syndrome. My favourite was when that black African or Caribbean skin mixes with that white english or european skin. You get that sun kissed finish. Jodie is a mixed-race girl dipped in rudeness and rolled in attitude. Listen, old man, I'm not in the mood for romancing with some weirdo, ya get me, so don't waste your rotten breath init. and then there's Rugrat. He's the class clown. He really wants to be liked - even by the scariest boy in school. He was some Nigerian gangster! He laid it on the line! His voice echoed through the playground like a lion's roar, through the plains of the Serengeti. Blood clot! Three magnetic personalities and three remarkable stories from the poetic imagination of arinze Kene.

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part of the London to Lagos festival, celebrating the links between these two world cities

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Oval House Theatre in association with BeCreative and Spora Stories

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three monologues

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Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXXI (2011) Page 0577

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Suffocation

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It's emeka's 20th birthday and he's having a drink up at home while his parents are away. With all his closest mates by his side, the games begin: "So the objective of the game is to cut off the oxygen supply to the brain for the purpose of experiencing a brief high. the moment before passing out from suffocation is euphoric. Basically, when you see my eyes start rolling back thats when you let go init. And it ain't like weed cos it don't cost you f**k all. Lemme show you. . ." A gripping, touching one act piece exploring the extremities of peer pressure.

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Us And them

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written by Suzanne Heathcote And Arinze Kene

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Writers Response / Bush Theatre, London    2010

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Wild Child

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a teenage girl is denounced by her church, rejected by her family, and labelled as a witch. This play looks at the unholy marriage of distorted Christianity and an ingrained African belief in the spirit world; uncovering the shocking truth behind the exorcism of witch children' here in London.

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part of Rough Cuts - A regular mini season of short plays, experimental readings And works in progress by established As well As emerging writers, directors And Artists

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Woosah

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Old Vic's 24Hour Plays    2010

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