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Jemma Kennedy

JEMMA KENNEDY

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Giles Smart

Jemma Kennedy is a playwright, novelist and screenwriter. She was Pearson Playwright at the National Theatre Studio in 2010 and part of the inaugural Soho 6 writing scheme with the Soho Theatre Company in 2011. She is currently under commission to the Unicorn Theatre. Her novel Skywalking was published by Penguin/Viking in 2003. She has two films in development with Hardy Pictures and a third with director Amanda Boyle. Jemma recently wrote the National Theatres New Views online playwriting course for young writers.

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         Don't Feed the Animals         Evensong         Gift, The         Goldfish Bowl, The         Grand Irrationality, The         Honesty Bar         Locust Bean Gum         Prince and the Pauper, The         Seagull, The         Second Person Narrative         Summer Book, The         Windmill, The

Don't Feed the Animals

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Sparks Circus is on its way down. the owners have been forced to sell their star attraction Tiny the elephant and a rival circus is poaching their artistes. With a busy bank holiday weekend approaching, its down to acrobatic twins Zack and Missy to fill the house and stop their family business from going under. When a local gang of bored youths volunteers to help them, the twins are faced with the task of training an un-trainable mob in circus skills.

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Dorchester Youth theatre

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Evensong

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Landscape Productions    2006

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Gift, The

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In the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, a kingly gift sparks a deadly struggle for the future. When the warriors return victorious from battle, they bring with them a great gift - gold, stripped from the weapons of their defeated enemies. They plan to use the treasure to build a new way of life and to gain the favour of their king. But the women think the price is too high, and are determined to hold on to the world they know. And, when the argument turns murderous, each must choose their own fate, risking all they have for freedom and for love.

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one act

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Goldfish Bowl, The

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Part of Miniaturists 16 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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Grand Irrationality, The

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in development

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Honesty Bar

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runner up, Write#2 Festival

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Locust Bean Gum

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Prince and the Pauper, The

Prince and the Pauper, The
You are a Prince, not a pauper. And before too long the whole of england will be in your hands. . .Set in a Tudor London so vibrant you can smell the potato peelings, poor Tom Canty has a chance meeting with the young heir to the throne, Prince Edward  and by pure coincidence they find they look almost identical. Mark Twain's classic tale of confused identities tells the story of what happens when the one is mistaken for the other: Tom Canty is forced into the world of the court and power, while Edward is cast down into a world of poverty and thieves, from which he must fight his way back to the Court. Part traditional and part fantastical, join us this Christmas for the story you've heard but never seen on stage before.

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by Mark Twain, adapted by JEmma Kennedy

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Methuen Drama (30 Nov 2012)   978-1472515636

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Seagull, The

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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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Second Person Narrative

Second Person Narrative
You're born a girl. You grow up. You grow old. You die. But who is in control of your life story? Can you actually choose your destiny? And how do you forge your own identity along the way?

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This Changes Everything by Joel Horwood is part of Platform, a new initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at addressing gender imbalance and inequality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by school, college and youth-theatre groups.

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Summer Book, The

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Set on a remote island in Finland, six year-old Sophia and her grandmother while away the summer months together, and gradually a fierce yet understated love emerges between the two  one that encompasses not just their relationship but the island itself, with its mossy rocks, windswept firs and unpredictable seas.

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The Unicorn Theatre marks the centenary of Swedish writer and novelist Tove Jansson (creator of the Moomins) with a dramatization of her novel The Summer Book. (translation by Thomas Teal)

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Windmill, The

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Rehearsed reading commissioned As part of A Jerwood / Arvon Young Playwright's Apprenticeship

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