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Phelim McDermott

PHELIM MCDERMOTT

  (1963 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Amanda Howard Associates  

Phelim McDermott (born 21 August 1963) is an English actor and stage director. He has directed plays and operas in Britain, Germany, Spain, the United States, and Australia. McDermott was a co-founder of the Improbable theatre in 1996.

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         70 Hill Lane         Alex Live on Stage         Cinderella - A New Telling Of An Old Story         Coma         Gaudete         Get Off My Foot!         Ghost Downstairs, The         Hanging Man, The         Hunchback of Notre Dame         Institute, The         Lifegame         Panic         Pirate Project, The         Shockheaded Peter         Spirit         Sticky Devised         Sweet Shop Owner, The         Theatre Of Blood         Vinegar Works, The

70 Hill Lane

Synopsis:
It is ostensibly a reminiscence about Mr. McDermott's youth; specifically, one day when he was about fifteen years old a poltergeist visited his home and wreaked bizarre but temporary havoc on it. Around this tale Mr. McDermott weaves stream-of-consciousness musings about his family, his unrequited search for a "beloved," the creation of this play, and the current, cluttered disarray of his existence.
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Notes:
devised by Phelim McDermott, Steve Tiplady, And Guy Dartnell

1st Produced:
P.S. 122, New York    1998

Organisations:
Improbable Theatre

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Piece, 85 min Piece

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Alex Live on Stage

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Cinderella - A New Telling Of An Old Story

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Written by Phelim McDermott; Lee Simpson and Julian Crouch

1st Produced:
Lyric, Hammersmith    27 Nov 1998

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Coma

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1st Produced:
Purcell Room, London    1999

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Gaudete

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Get Off My Foot!

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Ghost Downstairs, The

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Adapted By Phelim McDermott And Lee Simpson

1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>    1992

Organisations:
London International Mime Festival 2001

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Mime

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Hanging Man, The

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Scripted By Phelim McDermott, Lee Simpson & Juilan Crouch

1st Produced:
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, Uk    2003

Organisations:
Improbable Theatre

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Genre:
Devised Piece

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Hunchback of Notre Dame

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adapted from novel by Victor Hugo by Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott

1st Produced:
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, Uk    1994

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adaptation

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Institute, The

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created by Dereck, Dereck (Julia Bardsley / Phelim Mcdermott). London International Mime Festival. The first Festival took place at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977. In that year the event was called The Cockpit Festival of Mime and Visual Theatre. It is now the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986, the Festival has taken place each year, featuring, in addition to workshops, films, debates and special events, performances by the following artists and companies.

1st Produced:
London International Mime Festival    1990

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Genre:
Mime

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Lifegame

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Devised by Phelim McDermott from improvisational work of Keith Johnstone

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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Panic

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Created by Phelim McDermott, Lucy Foster, Matilda Leyser, Tamzin Griffin, Phil Eddolls, Lee Simpson, Julian Crouch, Colin Grenfell, Nick Powell And Lysander Ashton

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Improbable Theatre

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Pirate Project, The

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Improbable Theatre

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Shockheaded Peter

Synopsis:
Some background: Shockheaded Peter is inspired by the Struwwelpeter, a collection of short stories written by a German doctor named Heinrich Hoffman in 1844 to amuse his young son. Dr. Hoffman's sense of what would tickle a child's fancy is rather different than, say, Dr. Seuss's: the stories are outlandishly nasty and gruesome: unsettling little fables in which children who do not do what they are told meet frightening, violent deaths.

Notes:
written with Julian Crouch

1st Produced:
Bt Studio - Belfast    1998

Organisations:
Cultural Industry Production

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Genre:
Junk Opera Opera

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Spirit

Synopsis:
Three performers play three brothers who break bread together and wait for their story to begin. The performers wait too. And when did a story not happen to three brothers? Spirit takes you to a Improbable world of ugly improvisation, headless puppets, fractured storytelling and visual imagery to find out what happens to three brothers, who are in a simple story that gets complicated when things don't turn out the way they should. If drama is conflict, is conflict still drama when the performers don't agree? That is really don't agree.

Notes:
Created by Julian Crouch, Phelim McDermott, Lee Simpson, Guy Dartnell And Arlene Audergon

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Improbable Theatre

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Genre:
Devised Piece

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Sticky Devised

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1st Produced:
Purley Way, Croydon    2001

Organisations:
Improbable Theatre

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Sweet Shop Owner, The

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Play/Drama

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Theatre Of Blood

Synopsis:
Seven self-regarding critics assemble at a disused theatre in response to a mysterious invitation. Too late they discover its gruesome purpose as Edward Lionheart, an actor frenzied by a lifetime of sneering reviews, hacks his revengeful way through the bloody works of Shakespeare, assisted by a gang of murderous tramps. the laws of theatre supersede the laws of physics in this macabre exhibition of putty noses, Kensington gore and some very large acting indeed.

Notes:
written by Lee Simpson And Phelim McDermott. Based on the film by Stanley Mann And John Knott And the screenplay by Anthony Greville-Bell

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Organisations:
collaboration with Improbable

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Genre:
Film Adaptation Mystery. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  chorus of tramps

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Vinegar Works, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
created by Dereck, Dereck (Julia Bardsley / Phelim Mcdermott). London International Mime Festival. The first Festival took place at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977. In that year the event was called The Cockpit Festival of Mime and Visual Theatre. It is now the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986, the Festival has taken place each year, featuring, in addition to workshops, films, debates and special events, performances by the following artists and companies.

1st Produced:
London International Mime Festival    1989

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Mime

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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