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Ali Taylor

ALI TAYLOR

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  

Ali is currently working on a new play created during an attachment at the National Theatre Studio and a television series as part of the ChAnnel 4 Screenwriting Course 2012. Ali's first play COTTON WOOL won the 18th Meyer Whitworth Award. Set on the east coast of Scotland, the play is a poetic and mythic story of two teenage brothers who spot their mother's body floating in the sea. It was Critics' Choice in Time Out and described as "poignantly funny" and "grittily poetic and thrillingly imaginative" by the Times. As well as being selected for the prestigious Berliner Festspiele in 2007, COTTON WOOL has also been produced at Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Theater Csiky Gergely in RomaniA. OVERSPILL was one of the winners of Metamorphosis08, a new play competition run by the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. It was performed at the Theatre in June 2008 before transferring to Soho Theatre. A poetic and explosive thriller, OVERSPILL follows a lads' night out which takes a Dramatic and terrifying twist when an explosion rocks the town centre, and a suspicious population points the finger at them. It was Critics Choice in Time Out, which described it as "a dazzling display of Dramatic virtuosity". the Stage heralded it as "the most exciting piece of new writing in London" and the Guardian called it "a gem". Critics praised its theatricality and the heightened poetic writing. the Independent said it created a "pulsating rhythm, beautifully attuned to the strutting beat of bravado, the pounding nightmare of paranoia and sudden outbursts of savagery" His writing for young people includes two plays for Polka Theatre, STICKS AND STONES, a verbatim piece about the riots and an adaptation of the MACHINE GUNNERS by Robert Westall (shortlisted for the Brian Way Award). He has also written HIVE 9 for Islington Community Theatre and SLICK for National Youth Theatre. Ali worked with the innovative Goat & Monkey on A LITTLE NECK, a site-sympathetic play which brought Hampton Court Palace to life by allowing audiences to experience the downfall of Anne Boleyn. Radio plays include EIGHT FEET HIGH AND RISING and CINDERS - both directed by Jessica Dromgoole for Radio 4's Afternoon Play. He trained at the Royal Court Young Writers' Programme and in December 2001, an excerpt of his play PORCELAIN was part of the Royal Court Theatre's Workers Writes festival. In 2002, Ali was selected to join the UK/Royal Court contingent at the years INTERPLAY Festival in Hungary, featuring the work of 50 emerging writers from across Europe. He is artistic director of Buckle for Dust theatre company.

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         59 Cups         America Street         Conspiracy         Cotton Wool         Eight Feet High & Rising         Fault Lines         Hive9         Last Pig, The         Little Neck, A         Machine Gunners, The         November         Overspill         Porcelain         Slick         Sticks And Stones

59 Cups

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Topos Allou, Athens    

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America Street

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Conspiracy

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Cotton Wool

Cotton Wool
"What we saw was real. It was oor mammy. She's come to find us." Callum and Gussie have just left their mother's funeral. On the beach, they see something floating in the sea. It can't be what it looks like. Can it? Cotton Wool is a lyrical tale of lives on the edge. It thrillingly weaves in mythic tales from Scotland's past to create an unforgettable Drama that manages to be both humane and fantastical.

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Buckle for Dust

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Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2008   978-1854595362

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Eight Feet High & Rising

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Fault Lines

Fault Lines
A razor-sharp new comedy that exposes the dilemmas of working in charity today and asks whether doing good is always the same as being good. 7.32am. Christmas Eve. Disasters Relief's staff parties are legendary - but their aftermath cataclysmic. Nick and Abi wake amidst the carnage to breaking news: a massive earthquake has struck Pakistan. Gathering their clothes - and dignity - the race with rivals Oxfam begins. Who can be the first to dispatch branded aid in full view of the world media? And how far are they willing to go? With the appalling spectre of last night's antics hanging over everything, the day rapidly spirals into a dizzying web of secrets and lies.

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comedy

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Hive9

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Last Pig, The

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Part of Frontline. In November 2003, Frontline presented A week of semi-staged readings At Soho theatre. This was the culmination of An exciting And far-reaching development process centred on the voices of 8 new playwrights collaborating with A team of directors And Dramaturgs.

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Little Neck, A

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perambulatory account of Anee Boleyn's downfall

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Hampton Court, London     14 Sep 2009

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Goat & Monkey

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Machine Gunners, The

Machine Gunners, The
It's 1940, and Britain is at war. Young Chas McGill has the second best collection of war souvenirs in town but desperately wants it to be the best. Amidst the bombs and air rAIDS, Chas and his friends plan their own war effort in their newly built bunker. Friendships are forged and loyalties tested, in the adventure of a lifetime. . .the Machine Gunners won the Carnegie Medal and was recently voted one of the 10 most important childrens novels of the past 70 years. This moving and touching story vividly re-creates life in Britain during World War II, and is guaranteed to resonate with children and adults today.

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November

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Overspill

Overspill
the play is an original story of three young men all set for a night out in Bromley when the demon of violence causes them to pursue very different agendas. Derek Nicholls said, "Overspill impressed the judges because of its energy, and the originality of its storytelling. the tale it tells of three young men and their relationship to their home town is both very funny, and poignantly thoughtful, with a surprising Dramatic twist at its climax.",

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joint winner of Bromley Metamorphosis 08

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Churchill Theatre, Bromley     18 Jun 2008

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Porcelain

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Slick

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Slick will shake up the politics of pollution in a site-specific immersive show with epic choreography and live music. Inspired by the continued debate on climate change and the global waste epidemic, the audience will be led on a journey to a brave new world.

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The Park Hill Estate, Sheffield     01 Sep 2011

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Sticks And Stones

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