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Tim Price

TIM PRICE

  
Nationality:    Welsh
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Literary Agent:    Independent Talent Group Limited  

Writer Tim Price's television credits include: Casualty, Eastenders, Holby City, Doctors and River City (BBC), Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, Sold! and the New Worst Witch (ITV), Herman And Sherman (Films/Cartoon Network), Caerdydd and Y Pris (S4C).
For Y Pris, he won Best Drama at Celtic Film and TV Festival 2009, and was nominated for Best Screenwriter at BAFTA Cymru 2008, and Best Drama at Prix Europa 2008.
His Theatre credits include: Salt Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse, Trafalgar Studios, to be produced November 2011), For Once (Pentabus, Hampstead), Cafe Cariad (National Youth Theatre of Wales) and short plays: Teamwork (Paines Plough/Sherman Cymru), Under the Sofa (Paines Plough), Fairy Wands And Keys (Nabokov - Present: Tense), the Whole Truth (Act 1, Dirty Protest, performed at the Latitude Festival), From the Hip (Theatre 503, performed at the Green Man festival), and Sell Out Generation (Royal Court). His play Will and George has been shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2011.

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         Alex         Bells of Shoreditch, The         Burn         Cafe Cariad         Capitalism is Crisis         Come to Where I am From         Demos         For Once         Ignition         I'm With the Band         Insatiable, The, Inflatable Candylion         Praxis makes Perfect         Protest Song         Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, The         Real Valleys, The         Salt, Root and Roe         Teh Internet Is Serious Business         Under The Sofa         Where People Perform         Whole Truth, The         Will And George
Alex

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part of theatre Uncut (www.theatreuncut.com). theatre Uncut was created to encourage debate and galvanise action around political issues that affect all of our lives.

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Bells of Shoreditch, The

Synopsis:
Paul has been suffering from anxiety attacks. He can't stop himself throwing his property over bridges. He goes to work with no shoes. He's a man falling apart. So he puts an advert in the newspaper for a bedmate. Someone to sleep, to help him through the night. We follow Paul on his journey through London, with the loneliest people he can find.

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Dirty Protest

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Burn

Synopsis:
A full-length play set in Cardiff where a small-time porn peddler organises a robbery after discovering he is ill.

Notes:
Commissioned by Sgript Cymru

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-     2004

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Cafe Cariad

Synopsis:
Cafe Cariad is an epic bilingual musical Drama ranging between Northern Italy and South Wales before and during World War Two. When a brother and sister are forced to flee Mussolini's regime, these two communities find themselves united in this uplifting story of heroism, self-sacrifice and love. Set to a rich musical score, the National Youth theatre of Wales sets the stage alight with movement, song and emotionally-charged Drama to inspire challenge and delight.

Notes:
written by Tim Price And Greg Cullen; Music And Lyrics by Jak Poore And Greg Cullen

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National Youth Theatre of Wales

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Genre:
bi lingual musical Drama Musical

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Capitalism is Crisis

Synopsis:
Two worlds collide when a banker discovers the power of Occupy and an activist discovers the power of money.

Notes:
part of Theatre Uncut. Theatre Uncut was established in 2011 to encourage debate and galvanise action around political issues that affect all of our lives.

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Genre:
political piece

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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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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Paines Plough

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short play

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Demos

Synopsis:
In this new verbatim play, Tim Price presents an investigation of democracy that asks us to decide what sort of government is best. Written for a cast of over fifty, the audience will play a key role in the performance. Please bring a winter hat or gloves to the performance, as well as a tie or dress shirt.

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As part of Write Here, our festival in celebration of new writing

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Genre:
verbatim piece

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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For Once

For Once
In a place where everyone knows your name you can't forget who you are. Life, love and loss in a picture postcard town is laid bare in this heart-breaking but darkly comic new play. Through a series of interweaving accounts For Once cuts to the heart of a family, and a community, turned upside down by unimaginable tragedy. For Once examines the fallout after a car crash on a country lane takes the life of two local teenagers, through three interlaced monologues by their surviving friend Sid and his parents, April and Gordon, exposing the pre-existing faultlines in the family. Sid has been left partially sighted by the crash, and his account of his life before and since the accident gives an insight into why young people living in what seems like 'ideal' communities are driven to seek thrills elsewhere, sometimes with horrifying consequences. However, far from being depressing, Tim Price's skill at capturing the revealing inarticulacy of the teenager, as well as his troubled parents, makes for unexpected humour. For Once is a powerful and incisive look at life and death in a small market town.

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Pentabus

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Ignition

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Ignition returns for its third year, a week of brilliant new work, created from scratch, by the most exciting writers, actors and directors in dream combinations. Confirmed contributors include Jack Thorne and Hamish Pirie, Che Walker working with Omar Lyefook; Tim Price and Polly Findlay; Lydia Adetunji and Laura Farnworth; Jon Cooper; Gareth Farr; Kenny Emson and Laura Kriefman; Gbolahan Obisesan Tim Cowbury and Alice Lacey.

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Genre:
scratch work

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I'm With the Band

I'm With the Band
An Englishman, a Northern Irishman, a Scotsman and a Welshman walked into a recording studio, creating the Union. Commercially successful and critically acclaimed, the pioneering Indie Rock band is on the verge of breaking up. When financial disaster strikes and Scottish guitarist Barry leaves the band, artistic differences go head to head with alliances that run deep. Can the Union survive? Written by Olivier-nominated Tim Price, I'm With the Band is a witty response to our changing political landscape, with music from the four piece.

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Traverse Theatre Company & Wales Millennium Centre

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Genre:
music, political 1 hour 30 minutes

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Insatiable, The, Inflatable Candylion

Synopsis:
An immersive, festive treat from the creative minds behind the genre-bending Praxis Makes Perfect: Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys, writer Tim Price and director Wils Wilson team up to create a show like no other - a theatre gig for audiences of all ages, inspired by the seminal album Candylion. Featuring inflatable fat cats, a dalmatian on drums, pink candyfloss, blue audience members, a penniless penguin, and all led by Gruff Rhys himself - this is a festive show you'll be singing about for years to come!

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Conceived by Gruff Rhys, Wils Wilson and Tim Price from an original idea by Gruff Rhys, Pete Fowler and Mark James. Music & lyrics: Gruff Rhys

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Swalec Stadium, Cardiff     16 Dec 2015

Organisations:
National Theatre Wales

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Praxis makes Perfect

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Enter the unique world of Praxis Makes Perfect! Become part of an immersive gig imagining the life of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the millionaire Italian communist at the heart of many of the most extraordinary events of the twentieth century. Smuggle a manuscript out of Russia, be tortured by the CIA, play basketball with Fidel Castro! With Feltrinelli anything is possible.

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Cardiff: Secret Location     02 May 2013

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Neon Neon / National Theatre Wales

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Genre:
site specific play

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  many extras

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Protest Song

Protest Song
A monologue. Explores the reality of the Occupy movement. Based on a true story, the account of an unlikely hero allows us inside a remarkable political moment. Danny sleeps rough on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral. Has done for years. Then one morning he wakes to see a canvas city being erected in front of him. And Danny finds himself swept up in the last occupation of London.

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Bloomsbury Methuen, 2013   

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Play/Drama

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Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, The

Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, The
Bradley Manning is the 24-year-old US soldier accused of the release of thousands of US embassy emails to Wikileaks. On Friday 16th December 2011, his pre-trial hearing opened in Fort Meade in Maryland. Manning faces a maximum sentence of life in custody with no chance of parole. But just a few years ago, he was a teenager in west Wales. How does his story impact on the people he left behind, and who is responsible for his 'radicalisation'? the Radicalisation of Bradley Manning aims to place him in the pantheon of great Welsh radicals, from the Chartists to Aneurin Beva. This young soldier, who names the President of the United States as a defence witness, knows bus timetables around Haverfordwest. This young man who played a part in the Arab spring, knows the trials of schoolboy rugby. This young soldier who apparently chose his moral code over his military one, speaks rudimentary Welsh

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1st Produced:
Tasker Milward School, Haverfordwest Sa61 1Eq     12 Apr 2012

Organisations:
National Theatre of Wales

1st Published:
Methuen Drama, London   

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Play/Drama

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Real Valleys, The

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part of : Welsh writers are coming together for one night of explosive theatre reacting to MTV's the Valleys. the seven Valleys writers have each been commissioned by theatre company Dirty Protest to write a series of new short plays based on their hometowns.

1st Produced:
Bunkhouse, Cardiff     25 Oct 2012

Organisations:
Dirty Protest

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Genre:
short play

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Salt, Root and Roe

Salt, Root and Roe
Tim Price's Salt, Root and Roe is a heartbreaking, humorous tale of love and family set against a mythical backdrop. Set on the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales, identical twins Iola and Anest remain devoted to each other. Ageing fast, and with the time they have together more fragile by the day, they arrive at a desperate decision. Word of this reaches Anest's daughter Menna, who rushes to her long abandoned childhood home where her own ideas of love and compromise are tested to the limit. In spite of the sombre themes of death and bereavement, the writing is light, textured and at times very funny: picking out moments of joy and sadness with seemingly effortless grace. Touching relationships and believable characterisation provide a poignant backdrop to Salt, Root and Roe, where pragmatism, exhausted lives and childrens' fairytales collide in this exploration of grief, loss and acceptance.

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Second Donmar Trafalgar Season

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Methuen Drama, London   

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Genre:
Play/Drama 100 min

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Teh Internet Is Serious Business

Teh Internet Is Serious Business
A 16-year-old London schoolboy and an 18-year-old recluse in Shetland meet online, pick a fight with the FBI and change the world forever. Tim Price gets behind the code with the original Anonymous members and creates an anarchic retelling of the birth of hacktivism. A fictional account of the true story of Anonymous and LulzSec, the collective swarm who took on the most powerful capitalist forces from their bedrooms.

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Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (16 Sep 2014)   

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Play/Drama

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Male:  10            Female:  5            Other:  with doubling

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Under The Sofa

Under The Sofa
Under the Sofa is a mother's monologue about the experience of her son being in prison for a violent crime. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tim-price-plays-1-9781474221962/#sthash.V6zqcIOJ.dpuf

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1st Produced:
Script In Hand Reading As Part Of Paines Plough's Later Season At Trafalger Studios, London    

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Genre:
monologue

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Where People Perform

Synopsis:
where Bryan struggles to tell Joan a secret

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*Winner* of the best new play

1st Produced:
Cambridge Drama Festival     2004

Organisations:
Bawds

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One Act

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Whole Truth, The

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Act One performed At Sherman Cymru's Spring Board festival

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Will And George

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shortlisted for for the Verity Bargate prize Award 2011

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