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STEVE TRAFFORD

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

Steve Trafford was a founder member of Red Ladder Theatre, writing and cowriting their work over a number of years. Plays included: Nerves of Steel (dir: Chris Rawlence), Taking Our Time (dir: Michael Attenborough), Ladders to the Moon (dir: Annie Castledine). He wrote Marie  The Story of Marie Lloyd for Elizabeth Mansfield, and it's radio adaptation for BBC Radio 4. Marie ran twice in the West End at the Fortune Theatre, where Elizabeth was nominated for an Olivier Award as Best Actress in a Musical. He wrote the music theatre piece, Hymn to Love  Homage to Piaf, and adapted it for BBC Radio 3. His most recent play, A Cloud in Trousers, about the Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, was co-produced by Ensemble and York Theatre Royal. Steve has translated Bertolt Brecht's The Mother, re-setting the songs to Hanns Eisler's original score. Also a new translation of Ay Carmela! by Jose Sanchis Sinisterra, which was co-produced by Ensemble and York Theatre Royal. As a founder member of Red Ladder, Steve was instrumental in drafting the first Fringe and Small Scale Touring Theatre Agreement between the Arts Council and Equity. Also as a founder of Red Ladder, he was collectively responsible for the application for, and management of, their Arts Council funding, for over ten years. These were substantial revenue grants, maintaining a company of twelve employees, engaged in year-round, national, small scale touring. With Elizabeth Mansfield (and co-production partners such as York Theatre Royal) he has produced a number of Arts Council funded national tours, as well as a run of his play Marie in the West End. As a freelance artist for twenty years, Steve has managed personal taxation and VAT registered accounts. Steve is presently Consultant to the setting up of the Audio Visual Interactive Learning Project, for the voluntary sector, at the Cass Business School, City University, London. Steve has taught screen and theatre writing at the London Metropolitan University, Goldsmiths College, and Leeds Metropolitan University. He was Consultant to the setting up of the School of Film and Television at Leeds Metropolitan, along with Richard Woolley. He has also been Fellow in Creative Writing, at the University of Reading, working with undergraduates on screen writing. Steve worked with Amber Films in Newcastle, scripting the Channel 4 feature film T.Dan.Smith. He also wrote the six part drama series Bombay Blue for Channel Four and has written extensively for many popular TV series including: The Knock, Heartbeat, Medics, Wycliffe, Rockface, The Bill, and the BBC series Between The Lines, for which he won a Writer's Guild Award. He has also written several episodes of Midsomer Murders for Bentley Productions.

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below is a list of Steve Trafford's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Anybody Sweating         Ay, Carmela!         Cloud In Trousers, A         Hymn To Love : Homage To Piaff         Marie         Mother, The         Nerves Of Steel         Power Mad         Restoration of Nell Gwyn, The         Taking Our Time