Oliver Emanuel | |
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Born | Oliver Robert Michael Emanuel (1980-04-04)4 April 1980 Kent, England |
Died | 19 December 2023(2023-12-19) (aged 43) |
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Alma mater | |
Spouse |
Victoria Beesley (m. 2023) |
Children | 2 |
Oliver Robert Michael Emanuel (4 April 1980 – 19 December 2023) was a British playwright and radio dramatist.
Early life and education
Oliver Robert Michael Emanuel was born in Kent on 4 April 1980; his mother was a drama teacher and his father was a solicitor. He attended St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School in Tunbridge Wells, studied English and Theatre Studies at University of Leeds, and received an MA from the University of East Anglia.
Career
Emanuel was Writer-on-Attachment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2006 and Writer-in-Residence for BBC Radio 4 Children in Need in 2010. He lived in Glasgow from 2006. He was Reader of Playwriting at the University of St Andrews, an Associate Playwright at Playwrights' Studio Scotland, and Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library.
In addition to his radio and stage plays below, Emanuel wrote two plays for Polmont Young Offenders Institute, Ship of Shadows (October 2009) and John (7 May 2010), and scripted the short film This Way Up.
Personal life and death
In April 2023, Emanuel was diagnosed with brain cancer, and died from the disease on 19 December 2023, at the age of 43.
Emanuel had two children with Victoria Beesley; he and Beesley married in late 2023, shortly before his death.
Works
Radio plays
Theatre
Date | Title | Director | Cast | Theatre Company | Notes |
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August 2001 – 18 August 2001 | Gemini | Victoria Glass and Claire Davies | Stage By Stage | ||
3 August 2003 – 25 August 2003 | Iz | Daniel Bye | Grae Cleugh and Nick Jesper | Silver Tongue Theatre / Pleasance Theatre | |
June 2004 – | Grae Cleugh and James Gitsham | Silver Tongue Theatre / Tron Theatre, Glasgow | |||
August 2006 – 28 August 2006 | Shiver | Daniel Bye | Kay Bridgeman and Grae Cleugh | Silver Tongue Theatre / Pleasance Courtyard | |
28 May 2007 – 7 June 2007 | Marcia Battise | Theatre 503 | |||
6 August 2005 – 28 August 2005 | Bella and the Beautiful Knight | Daniel Bye | Grae Cleugh, Sally Kent, Nicholas Cowell | Silver Tongue Theatre / Gilded Balloon Teviot | |
May 2006 – | Tron Theatre, Glasgow | ||||
19 May 2007 – 8 June 2007 | Magpie Park | Sam Brown | Alison Pargeter and Liam McKenna | West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds | |
August 2007 – 26 August 2007 | Man Across the Way | Daniel Bye | Grae Cleugh, Nicholas Cowell, John Milroy and Harriette Quarrie | Silver Tongue Theatre and Theatre 503 | |
April 2008 – 11 April 2008 | The Severed Head of Comrade Bukhari | Daljinder Singh | Arches Theatre, Glasgow | ||
16 April 2008 – 19 April 2008 | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | ||||
June 2008 – | Flit | Alison Peebles | National Theatre of Scotland | ||
13 October 2008 – | Videotape | Joe Douglas | Robbie Jack and Sam Young | Òran Mór, Glasgow | |
March 2011 – | One night in Iran | Nabil Stuart and Amiera Darwish | Òran Mór, Glasgow | ||
21 June 2011 | Henry & Ingrid: Some Words For Home | Tron Theatre, Glasgow | |||
2011 – | Spirit of Adventure | Dundee Rep / Òran Mór, Glasgow | |||
2012 – | Random Objects Flying Through The Air | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / Playwrights' Studio, Scotland | |||
2012 – | End of The World | Red Note Ensemble | |||
2012 – 2013 | Titus | Macrobert / Playwrights' Studio, Scotland / Imaginate / Edinburgh Festival Fringe | New English version of Jan Sobrie's text. | ||
2013 – | The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish | Lu Kemp | National Theatre of Scotland | Adaptation of the book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (created by Lu Kemp and Abigail Docherty) | |
2013 – 2015 | Dragon | Vox Motus / National Theatre of Scotland / Tianjin People's Arts Theatre, China | Conceived by Jamie Harrison, Oliver Emanuel and Candice Edmunds | ||
4 December 2014 – 4 January 2015 | The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot | Gareth Nicholls | David Ireland and Alasdair Hankinson | Macrobert The Arches, Glasgow |
Co-created with Gareth Nicholls |
2014 – | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Visible Fictions | |||
13 May 2015 – | The Lost Things | Ross MacKay | Arran Howie and Alex Bird | Tortoise in a Nutshell | |
21 March 2016 – 26 March 2016 | Prom | Gareth Nicholls | Ryan Fletcher, Helen MacKay, Martin McBride and Nicola Roy | A Play, a Pie and a Pint Òran Mór, Glasgow |
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29 March 2016 – 6 April 2016 | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | ||||
24 May 2016 – 11 June 2016 | The 306: Dawn | Laurie Sansom | Scott Gilmour, Josef Davies and Joshua Miles | National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre with funding from 14–18 NOW | Composed by Gareth Williams |
5 May 2017 – 3 June 2017 | The 306: Day | Jemima Levick | Dani Heron, Amanda Wilkin, Fletcher Mathers, Wendy Somerville, Angela Hardie and Steven Miller | National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre and Stellar Quines Theatre Company with funding from 14–18 NOW | Composed by Gareth Williams |
4 August 2017 – 27 August 2017 | Flight | Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds | Nalini Chetty, Farshid Rokey, Emun Elliott, Maryam Hamidi, Robert Jack, Rosalind Sydney, Waleed Akhtar and Adura Odashile
Herald Angel Award 2017. |
Vox Motus Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh |
Based on the novel Hinterland by Caroline Brothers |
29 January 2018 – 30 September 2018 | McKittrick Hotel, New York | ||||
5 October 2018 – 21 October 2018 | Melbourne International Arts Festival | ||||
4 May 2019 – 23 May 2019 | Brighton Festival | ||||
18 January 2020 – 2 February 2020 | ASU Gammage | ||||
10 October 2018 – 27 October 2018 | The 306: Dusk | Wils Wilson | Sarah Kameela Impey, Ryan Fletcher and Danny Hughes | National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre with funding from 14–18 NOW | Composed by Gareth Williams |
3 October 2019 – 19 October 2019 | The Monstrous Heart | Gareth Nicholls | Charlene Boyd, Christine Entwisle and Tanya Moodie | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough | |
22 October 2019 – 2 November 2019 | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh |
Short stories
- Nude
Other work
- Desperate Run
Awards
- Daniel and Mary received a Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama in 2010.
- Dragon won Best Show For Children and Young People at the UK Theatre Awards in 2014.
- His version of Titus won the People's Choice Victor Award in 2015 at IPAY.
- A History of Paper was shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award 2017.
- When The Pips Stop won the Tinniswood Award in 2019.
- The Truth About Hawaii won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Series or Serial in 2019.
References
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- Desperate Run
- UK Theatre Awards 2014 winners announced, The Stage, 19 October 2014
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- "International Association of Performing Arts for Youth – Victor Award". Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
External links
- Oliver Emanuel
- Oliver Emanuel at IMDb
- Oliver Emanuel at United Agents
- Oliver Emanuel at Oberon Books