Stephen Lowe

Stephen Lowe has worked as an actor, director, artistic director as well as a playwright. Born in Nottingham, he graduated from Birmingham University where he also did post-graduate research in "Consciousness and the Artist".  He received an honorary doctorate from Nottingham University, is president of UNESCO Nottingham City of Literature and recently had a tram named after him.

His plays have been staged at the Royal Court, (Touched, Body and Soul, Glasshouses, Tibetan Inroads) by the Royal Shakespeare Company (Divine Gossip), at most of England's leading repertory theatres as well as with touring companies like Joint Stock (Ragged Trousered Philanthropists) and his own company, Meeting Ground. He has worked with directors and producers including Alan Ayckbourn, Richard Eyre, Bill Gaskill, Steven Daldrey, Danny Boyle, David Leveux, Annie Casteldine, Alan Dossor, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Michael Wearing and composers like Rachel Portman and Michael Nyman. For screen: FleaBites starring Nigel Hawthorne, Ice Dance with Warren Clarke, the BBC’s Scarlet and Black starring Ewan McGregor and Rachel Weisz, and numerous episodes of Coronation Street (including the 2003 Christmas Day special).  His 2005 play about Brian Clough, The Spirit of the Man broke Nottingham Playhouse’s Box Office records. His new musical Changing Fashion tour in early 2018.