Michelle Magorian

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Film, TV & Theatre

Agent: Charles Walker

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Charles Walker

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Associate Agent : Olivia Martin

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Film, TV & Theatre

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Michelle Magorian trained at The Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance for three years followed by a year at Marcel Marceau's L'École Internationale de Mime in Paris. She has a post graduate certificate in Film Studies (BFI/London University), was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Portsmouth University in 2005, made a Fellow of Rose Bruford College in 2013, and has twice been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (20018/19). While she was a student, she wrote plays and poetry and continued to write alongside her acting work, (Equity name Mikki Magorian). As well as appearing in dramas and comedies in repertory theatres and in London ( from A Collier's Friday Night, Danton's Death and Faust to The Norman Conquests, Abigail's Party and Rookery Nook), she has played a variety of roles in musicals and was asked to play Cicely Courtneidge performing on a London stage in the TV series Lillie. It was while she was working at the Northcott Theatre, writing on Sundays between rehearsing and performing six days and six nights a week, that she completed her first draft of Goodnight Mister Tom. This led her to her other novels.

Film & Television Rights

Production	Company	Notes
IMPOSSIBLE 2014	Troika Books	*Nominated for CILIP Carnegie Award 2016
JUST HENRY 2008	Egmont	Winner of the Costa Award Children's Book Award, 2008. Sunday Times Book of the Week. Adapted for ITV in 2011. Translated into Swedish and Spanish in 2009. Audible book read by Richard Mitchley
A SPOONFUL OF JAM 1998	Mammoth / Egmont	Number Three in the Irish Best-Seller list. *Runner up for the Lancashire Book Award.
CUCKOO IN THE NEST 1994	Methuen	Republished 2008 by Egmont
A LITTLE LOVE SONG 1991	Meuthen & Egmont / Harper and Row	Several translations. 25 Best books of the Year - Waterstones Bookshops. Selected for WH Smith teenage promotion. Voted favourite book and favourite Valentine's Day book by Swedish teenagers 2011 NOT A SWAN (American version) published 1992 Top Choice American Library Association. Best Books for Young Adult's list Audible books, read by the author (2011)
BACK HOME 1984	Puffin and Harper & Row / Harper Collins	Best Book for Young Adults (American Library Association) 1984. West Australia Young Readers Book Award (1987.) BBC Radio 4 series (1995). Broadcasts repeated until 2013 Adapted for television in 1989. Winner of the Gold Award at the New York Film and Television Festival in 1990 Adapted again (Acorn Studios) in 2001 Audio book: Read by the author and released in 2018. Publisher: Penguin Random House
GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM 1981	Puffin / Harper Collins	Guardian Children's Fiction Award 1982 (UK) International Reading Award 1982 (USA) West Australia Young Readers Book Award 1983 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) Commended for the Carnegie Medal (UK) At the Big Read BBC (2005) voted among the top 100 books, and at the Hay Festival (2010) Favourite Puffin Title of All Time It has been translated into several languages, currently Turkish and Chinese (2018) Adaptations: The musical version was a winner at the Quest Fest for New Musicals 1992. An abridged audio book was recorded by Patrick Malahide for Puffin and a full version by Christopher Saul for RNIB. It has been adapted for a radio series in Sweden and Norway and been made into a TV Drama 1998 by Carlton Television. Winner of the Silver Hugo Award for feature length television films at the 34th Chicago International Television. Best ITV/Channel5 Programme of 1998 Television and Radio Industries Award 1999. BAFTA 1999 Award. John Thaw voted the people's choice after picking up the Lew Grade Award for the Most Popular Television Programme of 1998. National Television Awards 1999 - Best Drama of 1998
Fiction for Dyslexic readers
THE FRONT ROOM 2016	Barrington Stoke	Translated into Swedish in 2018 Illustrator: Vladimir Stankovic
IN AT THE DEEP END 2016	Barrington Stoke	Illustrator: Peter Cottrill Translated into Swedish in 2017 and Turkish in 2018
THE SMILE 2015	Barrington Stoke	Illustrator: Sam Usher

Radio

Production	Company	Notes
IN DEEP WATER - A collection of short stories 1992	Puffin	Broadcast on Radio 4 as the Afternoon Play (1999). Dramatised by Malcolm McKee (who also composed the music) and directed by Sue Wilson. A trio of dramatised stories linked by the theme of water centred round a storm at sea, a devastating flood and a boat race - three teenagers are challenged by the power of water. " atmospheric ...terrifying ...riveting" THE OBSERVER

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IN DEEP WATER - A collection of short stories

1992

Puffin

Broadcast on Radio 4 as the Afternoon Play (1999). Dramatised by Malcolm McKee (who also composed the music) and directed by Sue Wilson.

A trio of dramatised stories linked by the theme of water centred round a storm at sea, a devastating flood and a boat race - three teenagers are challenged by the power of water.

" atmospheric ...terrifying ...riveting" THE OBSERVER

Theatre

Production	Company	Notes
SEA CHANGE		Book and Lyrics by Michelle Magorian. Music composed by Stephen Keeling
HELLO LIFE!	Greenwich Theatre	Book and Lyrics by Michelle Magorian and Heather Cairncross. Music composed by Alexander L' Estrange. Performed by Heather Cairncross. Pick of the Fringe at the Brighton Festival
TINSEL	Greenwich Theatre	Book and Lyrics by Michelle Magorian. Music composed by Robert Buckley
GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM		Book and Lyrics by Michelle Magorian. Music composed by Gary Carpenter. A winner at the Quest Fest for New Musicals 1992 Published by Josef Weinberger 2001