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Dean Stalham

DEAN STALHAM

  (1963 - )
Nationality:    English
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Discovered writing whilst serving 3 ½ years in prison. Won a Koestler Award after seeing a play and meeting its writer, Simon Stephens. Attended a script writing course organized by the Royal Court Theatre, run by Jane Bodie. Released in Jan 2006, first play 'sporadicity' featured in the Hampstead Theatres November 06 'start Night', went on to the Goldsmiths in Feb 07 and then onto the Pleasance in April 07. Last play 'senti-Mental' had a three week run at the Union Theatre in Southwark Feb 08. Michael Coveney reviewed that the writing was 'raw, gutsy and poetic'. Short play 'If the cap fits' will be showing at the Union Theatre June 3rd until June 24th 08. Short play 'take it or leave it' will be showing at this years Camden Fringe Festival and 'sporadicity (revisited and rewritten} will be showing at the Hen and Chickens in November 08.

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         Bobby's Girl         If the Cap fits         Senti-Mental         Sporacity
Bobby's Girl

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developed At the Royal Court

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If the Cap fits

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set in an East End Pub, all camp, glowering menace and surreal juxtapositions.

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part of Prose And Cons - A collection of plays presented in Association with the Koestler Trust

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Senti-Mental

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Erin, a run away from a remote Scottish Isle falls into clutches of London's oldest smack head in town, who eventually sells her to his grand son for the keys to a flat. the pair of them ends up in a dump of a flat in Brighton. Rob Steals an antique gramophone, that ends up sending him spiraling into madness.

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Dead fly in a beuno key productions

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Sporacity

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Wanda Wilson is a top glamour model who has fought her way to the top of the tree, she refuses to become a victim of circumstance and will not go down without a fight. Joseph Michael Beyzade is half Irish, half Turkish who has aspirations to be London's biggest heroin dealer. Together, they are man and wife.

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