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Laura Lomas

LAURA LOMAS

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Laura Lomas is from Derby. She studied English at the University of Nottingham and completed an MPhil in Playwriting at the University of Birmingham. Her first play A Background Noise headlined the Momentum Young Writers Festival in 2005. Since then she has worked with the Royal Court and BBC writersroom on 'the50' and '24 degrees' projects and most recently was selected for the BBC Radio Sparks residential. Her first full length play Wasteland was produced in March '09 by New Perspectives and she is currently under commission from Nottingham Playhouse in association with the European Theatre Convention and the Det Norske Teatret, Oslo.

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         10,000 Metres Deep         Background Noise, A         Bird         Blister         Come to Where I am From         Hood         Island, The         Joanne         Love And Violence         Open Heart Surgery         Traces         Us Like Gods         Wasteland

10,000 Metres Deep

Synopsis:
Today is Claire's 19th Birthday and it's the day that she and Jason are going missing. He's nicked them a car and they've driven from Sheffield to Fife, to the place Claire used to visit. Before it all went wrong. But neither banks on who they find on the edge of a cliff, at the end of the world, where memories run as deep as sea waters.

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Paines Plough

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One act

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Background Noise, A

Synopsis:
"My starting point was an article I read in the paper about a group of boys who had attacked a young Muslim at a bus stop. I wanted to explore the lives and relationships of these boys to see what would drive them to commit such acts of violence. Yet I found that the more I wrote the more the play seemed to be about the relationship between the boys rather than the attack." - Laura Lomas

Notes:
the original production was directed by Giles Croft, Artistic director of the Nottingham Playhouse, As part of the Momentum Young Writers Festival, the first event of its kind in the east Midlands.

1st Produced:
Nottingham, England     2005

Organisations:
Theatre Writing Partnership

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Short Play One act

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Bird

Synopsis:
I feel my heart beating like birds wings flapping and then he's asking 'What's your name?' And he look at me, right into me, and so I tell him. 'My name's Leah, Leah Bird.It's four in the morning and Leah Bird is alone in a flat in Derby waiting for her boyfriend to call. Over the course of a single night she tells us what it's like to be fourteen, fearless and full of love. But everything isn't what it seems, and as the sun comes up, Leah begins to unpick the true nature of her relationship. A cutting edge play that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain

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Blister

Synopsis:
If I could give you all the blood in my body. . .go back. . .make it undone. . .undo what happened, I would do. An ordinary summer's day. Liam is about to make a decision he will spend a life time regretting. One day. One mistake. Seven lives sent spiralling. From service stations to sea fronts, BLISTER examines one moment and its ripple effects through a galaxy of lives.

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1st Produced:
Royal Welsh College Of Music And Drama, Bute Theatre, Cardiff     01 Apr 2014

Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Come to Where I am From

Synopsis:
Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.

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Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Hood

Synopsis:
Based on the legend of Robin Hood, a specially commissioned play will premiere at the Theatre Royal in September. In a unique collaboration, the Theatre Royal will be working with local theatre company, New Perspectives, and seven of the region's most talented playwrights to create a series of new stories, taking the world's most famous folklore hero on a journey through a century and a half of Nottingham's vibrant and colourful history from 1865 to the present day.

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written by Andy Barrett, Tim Elgood, James Graham, Laura Lomas, Mufaro Makubika, Brian Mitchell, Joseph Nixon

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Organisations:
New Perspectives Theatre Company

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Island, The

Synopsis:
a solitary stranger is washed up on the shore of a remote island. No-one speaks his language or knows where he comes from. the fisherwoman and her daughter want to help him, but the community just wants to send him back. . .

Notes:
adapted by Laura Lomas from Armin Greder's picture book

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Organisations:
Roundabout

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TYA

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Joanne

Joanne
Accidents. Puzzles. Coincidences. The moments that have defined her, that have led her to this kitchen tonight, standing in front of me, shaking, saying going back to prison will break her. I can feel the weight of her whole life in my hands. Five characters share a common thread: Joanne. But it's not about her. It's about Stella, whose tomorrow is as far away as winter from summer. It's the way Grace finds her song on the footpath between two cars. It's about Alice's MBA wasted on plugging holes, Kath's patients crawling alongside her after the night shift and it's Becky caught in the crosshairs of what's best and what's right for her students. But what about her? What about Joanne?

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The play comprises five interconnected short plays for a solo performer, written by Deborah Bruce, Theresa Ikoko, Laura Lomas, Chino Odimba and Ursula Rani Sarma.

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Nick Hern Books, London   978-1848425446

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Love And Violence

Synopsis:
An epic story of an ordinary life, we follow Lisa over the course of 20 years; at 17, 21, 36 and finally 16 again. Fights, crushed dreams, and what we inherit from the world around us collide in a play that raises tricky questions about our capacity for love when we're surrounded by violence.

Notes:
Part of the Royal Exchange Theatre Hodgkiss Award which is the only scheme of its kind in the north that celebrates the unique collaboration between a writer and director. It offers a theatre maker of outstanding promise the chance to direct a new piece of work - by a writer of their choice - in a production fully supported by the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in 2014. And in its inaugural year, the Award received 108 submissions from directors based the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland! We were overwhelmed with the breadth and scope of ideas and the quality of proposals. It makes us feel incredibly excited about the future of new work in our theatres and the ambition and dedication of directors working in a variety of ways across the UK. It was fascinating to see such a range of ideas and for us to really interrogate how we make work for our audiences at the Royal Exchange Theatre.

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Open Heart Surgery

Open Heart Surgery
Open Heart Surgery, in which a wounded young woman sits by her fiance's bed trying to "make the best of it", that if you remove the heart of a society all you end up with is a corpse
- Lyn Garnder, Guardian

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Part of theatre Uncut. Across the country thousands of people Are involved in protests And debates, sparked into Action by the largest cuts to public spending since World War Two. theatre Uncut is A national theatre event in response to these cuts, bringing together some of the UK's leading Dramatists.

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Reclaim Productions, in association with Meeting Point Productions

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short play

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Traces

Synopsis:
It's the hottest day of the year. Leanne returns home to a small town in search of the past. Meet the frappuccino-swilling Goth, the young girl longing to meet her idol, the guitar-playing agoraphobic, and the man just looking for love, as they come together on a day that will change all their lives forever.

Notes:
Written by Lucinda Cardey, Laura Lomas, Penelope Skinner, Adam Taylor, Danielle Sibley And Tom Wells

1st Produced:
The North Wall, Oxford, Oxfordshire     10 Jul 2009

Organisations:
National Youth Theatre with Future Perfect 2009, Paines Plough

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Us Like Gods

Synopsis:
No one had even noticed him, but when we turned our heads, and faces to the music. There in the corner, at the back of the bus, was a boy. Skinny like a mouse. All amber in the sunlight. A bus crashes. 11 friends alone, lost and afraid in the growing darkness. One boy offers to lead the way.

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Heat&Light

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Wasteland

Synopsis:
It's about time someone said no - someone like you' Jamie's dad's just been sent down. Megan's planning to run away to find her real dad. Clayton's back in town and keen to play the Father figure. When three lost souls find themselves washed-up on the banks of a disused canal, it quickly becomes clear that there are some big choices to be made this summer - life and death choices. Inspired by the real-life events leading up to the killing of Fred Barras by farmer Tony Martin, up and coming Derby born playwright Laura Lomas has written an unsettling portrait of teenage life on the edge of a Midlands market town - a gripping drama of revenge and redemption. More New Perspectives' on life in the rural East Midlands from the region's favourite touring theatre company, this time in a bold new production that will be of particular interest to teenage and young adult audiences.

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1st Produced:
Darwin Suite Of Derby Assembly Rooms     30 Apr 2009

Organisations:
New Perspectives

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