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Michael Ross

MICHAEL ROSS

  
Nationality:    English
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Michael studied playwriting with the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme, and in 2012 he was chosen by the Writers Guild & RADA for the 'Plays of Innocence And Experience' development programme, resulting in a rehearsed reading of the full length 'Hungry Heart'. In 2013 'saving Souls In Soho' was selected to open the inaugural 'the Band Plays On' festival at Greenwich Theatre. His debut short film Dawn Rescue premiered at the 2012 Portobello Film Festival.

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         Armed Forces Day         Cities with no Children         Daily Hell         Dare Me To the Desert         Don't Ask, Don't Tell         Eyes Full Of Pornography         Handful of Mustard Seed, A         Happy To Help         Hungry Heart         Love, Hate and Human Rights         Low Prices You Can Taste         Nothing But Mammals         Preoccupied         Protect And Survive         Rats Nests         Saving Souls In Soho         Shyness Can Stop You         Teachers' Playground         That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore         they Won't Kill You         Tomorrow We Build Our Jerusalem         Utility People         Waterloo Sunset         Work Makes You Free

Armed Forces Day

Synopsis:
A train carriage. A British soldier is applauded by passengers. But why is there blood on his uniform? And why isn't the train moving?

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Off Cut Festival/In Company

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Short play

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cities with no Children

Synopsis:
The future and everyone can now live forever. To stop over population nobody is allowed to have children anymore. When Eno and Ariel become the first couple in a million years to have a baby they must pay the price

Notes:
part of Festopia. Utopia or Dystopia? Playwrights imagine the future in a festival of new plays. From over 250 submissions, 19 plays from emerging and more established playwrights staged across five days this January.

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short play

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Daily Hell

Synopsis:
After writing "who reads this fascist shit?" on a colleague's Daily Mail, a man is accused of bullying in the workplace and must fight to keep his job.

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Performed As part of 'Redfest; A festival of new writing.'

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Genre:
Comedy - Short

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dare Me To the Desert

Synopsis:
After a teacher is arrested in the Sudan for naming a teddy bear Mohammed, provocative English journalist Jack Feltham instigates a series of 'teddy bear picnic' protests outside mosques, one of which goes horribly wrong. As Jack deals with questions of responsibility, he is haunted by the ghost of Darren Isaacs, a soldier killed in Iraq whom Jack had inspired to enlist with his pro-war columns.

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Genre:
Gay one act

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Synopsis:
Fictionalised account of US soldier Bradley Manning's last time on leave in Boston in early 2011. A one night stand turns into a terrifying military interrogation.

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Performed As part of the event 'Rapid Write Response to Man In the Middle.'

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Short play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Eyes Full Of Pornography

Synopsis:
Two men relate how they first met ten years ago in a Soho bar, where Dan leant over and whispered something in Matthew's ear which would change his life forever. A blackly comic look at how religion corrupts the innocent.

Notes:
Also later performed As part of 'In An Instant' At theatre503.

1st Produced:
Rada, London.     15 Jun 2010

Organisations:
Eyebrow Productions

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Genre:
Gay one act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Handful of Mustard Seed, A

Synopsis:
Ex-con and recovering alcoholic turned spirit medium Shelley Hughes invites you to take a seat and join her audience as she prepares to summon up the ghosts of your loved ones. But her own eventful past also haunts the evening, and it's not just the dead who drop in to disrupt proceedings.

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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading At The Bush Library, London.     13 Oct 2010

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Happy To Help

Happy To Help
A destitute farmer sells his land to the supermarket chain that drove him out of business. Fifteen years later and a bustling supermarket stands on the same spot. UK managing director Tony is coming to work undercover at the store for a week. Branch manager Vicky is determined to give him a more grimly authentic experience than he'd ever dared wish for. Shelf stacker Josh dreams of escape and rock stardom. Union organizer Elliott dreams of Josh. By Friday, nothing will ever be the same for them again.

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1st Produced:
Park Theatre, London     14 Jun 2016

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1st Published:
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (14 Jun. 2016)   

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Hungry Heart

Synopsis:
In a gay bar in Milwaukee, 1991, 17 year old Connor is looking for something 'meaningful' and thinks he's found it when he gets chatting to the quiet, enigmatic Jeffrey Dahmer.

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Performed As part of the event 'Little Pieces of Love.'

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Little Pieces of Gold

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Genre:
Gay one act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Love, Hate and Human Rights

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Low Prices You Can Taste

Synopsis:
Satire on the all-powerful supermarket industry. A store manager grills a shelf-stacker about his commitment to the company.

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In Company/Off Cut Festival 2011

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Nothing But Mammals

Synopsis:
Zoe and Simon have had a baby. But their daughter Izzy isn't entirely what they expected (she's a rat). A darkly comic play exploring the limits of parental love.

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Finalist for Best Play and winner of Best Cast and Best Director.

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REDfest: the Off West End New Writing Awards 2012

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Preoccupied

Synopsis:
Occupy activists Millie and Finn break into an abandoned building, hoping to open it up to the homeless, but when creepy things starts to happen, it seems it may not be unoccupied after all.

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1st Produced:
The Vaults, London.     01 Mar 2015

Organisations:
FOH Theatre

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Genre:
Drama/Horror

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Protect And Survive

Synopsis:
England, 1984. The Cold War casts a shadow across the country. Taking its title from the British government's public information booklet about what to do in the event of a nuclear attack, 'Protect and Survive' is set amidst the apocalyptic hysteria of the early 1980s. Jack, the son of a local farmer, lives with the knowledge of a secret government facility hidden deep beneath his family's farm. One summer's day he meets Kirsty, a young girl who has recently arrived in the village from London with her brother Charlie, and their widower father. Jack tells Kirsty about the bunker and invites her and Charlie to explore it, the three embarking on a dangerous journey that uncovers entombed guilt, grief and sexual desires. Buried deep underground, not everyone survives.

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Vaults Festival 2016

1st Produced:
The Vaults, Leake St, Waterloo, SE1 7NN     02 Mar 2016

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Genre:
Play/Drama 60 min

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rats Nests

Synopsis:
Told backwards, the story of couple Edward and Victoria, beginning as tramps in 2012, then as wealthy property developers in the 1980s, and finally as idealistic students in the 1970s.

Notes:
Performed As part of the Vault Festival.

1st Produced:
The Old Vic Tunnels, London     18 Feb 2012

Organisations:
OTB Productions

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Saving Souls In Soho

Synopsis:
Is being gay the same as being a homosexual? The last day of term and 17 year old Matthew heads for Soho. At the Admiral Duncan the barman whispers something in his ear. That is the start of barman Dan and Matthew's mission to save souls. At night they cruise gar bars and clubs and whisper the words to anyone who looks 16 or 17 and a virgin. Sometimes they have success - others a bloody nose. Then Matthew meets Zack. Matthew claims he slipped and that Zack had seduced him but is that really what happened

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part of the BAND PLAYS ON, a festival of new gay-themed playwriting named in honour of Mart Crowley's 1968 classic and presented in partnership with award winning writer and director Patrick Wilde (What's Wrong With Angry).

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Genre:
Gay, theme/character, one act

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Shyness Can Stop You

Synopsis:
Sian, a 'recovered' shy person, dispenses advice at her support group for the socially awkward.

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Little Pieces of Gold

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Teachers' Playground

Synopsis:
Education takes a back seat as the teachers plot, bully and bitch in the school staff room.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

Synopsis:
A surreal night in the bed-sit of a failed comedian as a succession of ghosts from his past emerge from the wardrobe to perform stand-up routines in front of him.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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they Won't Kill You

Synopsis:
the Prime Minister has re-branded himself Team Leader, his country Team Britain and has declared war on all those who lack the Team Spirit. Shy, reclusive loner Malcolm Colefield suddenly finds himself an object of mob vilification.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Tomorrow We Build Our Jerusalem

Synopsis:
During rehearsals for a play to celebrate the centenary of the world's first all-female nation state, first founded by Suffragettes in 1910, fissures in the actresses relationship are opened up by their differing attitudes to history.

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1st Produced:
Dogstar, Brixton, London     24 Aug 2010

Organisations:
blank pages

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Play/Drama

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Utility People

Synopsis:
A couple find immigrants hiding in their utility cupboard. They hire them as servants

Notes:
Performed with another one act play under the overall title: "Fresh Off The Boat"

1st Produced:
Hen And Chickens Theatre, London     08 Oct 2013

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Genre:
One act

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Waterloo Sunset

Synopsis:
the lives of two tramps, a suicidal young man and a Christian street preacher intersect on Waterloo bridge the day a whale swims past.

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1st Produced:
The Corner House, Surbiton.     2006

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Work Makes You Free

Synopsis:
Adam loves his job as Employment Minister, Kirsty cries in the shower every morning before heading off to work at the Job Centre, Willow must toil unpaid in a pound shop or lose her benefits, and Jane is disgusted by the sight of her neighbours closed curtains as she leaves for her high powered job in the City every morning. Four interweaving monologues exploring different attitudes to work.

Notes:
Rehearsed reading of a full length play. Originally a short performed at the Park Theatre as part of 'A Bad Case Of The Mondays' by Paradigm Theatre in January 2014.

1st Produced:
Rada, London     01 Aug 2014

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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