• Carl Grose writes OEDIPUSSY with Spymonkey; touring UK
  • Buy the official biography of KING EDWARD VIII by Philip Ziegler
  • See Sue Kelvin In TRAVELLING LIGHT at the National and on tour
  • Helen Goddard designs ROMEO & JULIET for Headlong Theatre's UK Tour
  • James Perkins designs FLOYD COLLINS at the Southwark Playhouse
  • Buy SELECTED POEMS by Roy Fuller, in bookshops now
  • See Bijan Sheibani's HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA at the Almeida.
  • David Armand and Elizabeth Berrington in Absent Friends
  • Polly Sullivan designs THE BOMB at the Tricycle Theatre
  • Lauren Samuels is Scaramouche in WE WILL ROCK YOU!
  • THE DARKER SIDE OF LOVE by Jessica Ruston is in bookshops now
  • SEX WITH A STRANGER at Trafalgar Studios 2 until 25th February
  • THE STAG AND HEN WEEKEND by Mike Gayle is in bookshops now
  • Douglas O'Connell designs videos for THE BOMB at the Tricycle Theatre
  • Nicolas Kent directs THE BOMB at the Tricycle Theatre
  • James Cotterill designs MACBETH at the Bolton Octagon
  • Robert Icke directs ROMEO & JULIET for Headlong Theatre's UK Tour
  • John Hodge's COLLABORATORS at The National Theatre
  • Richard Bean's ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at the Adelphi Theatre

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Chris Lee
© SHALLOW SLUMBER @ Soho Theatre Studio

Chris Lee

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About

Plays include HUMMINGBIRD that was mounted at The Old Red Lion (1996), THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER that went on at The Finborough (1997), EAT THE ENEMY at The Old Red Lion (1999) and in the US, at TheaterLab, Houston, Texas, THE ELECTROCUTION OF CHILDREN at the Peacock, Dublin (1998) for which he won the Stewart Parker New Playwright Award and THE MAP MAKER'S SORROW that was mounted in Autumn 1999 also at the Peacock.

In 1999 he was appointed Writer-in-Association with the Abbey Theatre. In 2000 he was awarded a Pearson New Playwright's Bursary for an attachment to the Finborough. His fifth play ON LINE & PARANOID IN THE SENTIMENTAL CITY opened at the Finborough in September 2000. COLD VINTAGE was given a rehearsed reading by the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in October 2002. VERMILION DREAM (directed by Nina Raine) opened at Salisbury Playhouse in October 2004. THE ASH BOY (directed by Gene David Kirk) had a sell-out run at Theatre 503 in April 2006 and THE WATER HARVEST, played at the Theatre 503 (directed by Elizabeth Freestone) in June 2007.

Gallery
Theatre
ProductionCompanyNotes
SHALLOW SLUMBER
(2011)
Supporting Wall / Soho Theatre UpstairsDirected by Mary Nighy
Published by Methuen
AND NOW FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
(2011)
The Horse, London15 minute play as part of April Showers
ZOZO
(2011)
Stendhal University, Grenbole, France
THE FOUNDATION OF TRUST
(2011)
The Rondo Theatre, Bath* Winner of The Rondo Theatre playwrighting competition 2011
THE WATER HARVEST
(2007)
Theatre 503Directed by Elizabeth Freestone
THE ASH BOY
(2006)
Theatre 503Directed by Gene David Kirk
VERMILION DREAM
(2004)
Salisbury PlayhouseDirected by Nina Raine
ONLINE AND PARANOID IN THE SENTIMENTAL CITY
(2000)
Finborough Theatre
THE MAP MAKER'S SORROW
(1999)
Peacock Theatre, Dublin
THE ELECTROCUTION OF CHILDREN
(1998)
Peacock Theatre, DublinStewart Parker New Playwright's Award
THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER
(1997)
Finborough Theatre
HUMMINGBIRD
(1996)
Old Red Lion Theatre
Radio
ProductionCompanyNotes
THE PARALLAX OF JAN VAN EYCK
(1996)
RTE
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