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STEVE BURBRIDGE (1973 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Steve graduated from the University of Sunderland with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication. As a freelance journalist, specialising in showbiz and entertainment, he regularly contributes to the Evening Chronicle, The Journal, Sunday Sun, The Northern Echo, The Shields Gazette, the Sunderland Echo and Metro in his native North East England, as well as being published in local newspapers throughout the UK, including The York Press, The Grimsby Telegraph, The Basingstoke Observer, The Basingstoke Gazette, The South Wales Evening Post and The Greenwich News Shopper. He has also written features for local and national magazines and has been a popular regular guest broadcaster for BBC Radio Newcastle and Radio Teesdale, over the past few years, to preview and review theatre productions in his home region. Once a budding thespian, Steve trained at the Newcastle College Performance Academy. His credits while in training include 'Brent Boyd' in The Lounge, 'Nick Bottom' in A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 'David' in The Rivals, 'Dottore' in Commedia dell'arte and 'Paul' in The Break of Day. Other theatre credits include the RSC's production of Richard III (Theatre Royal, Newcastle), 'Herbert Quale' in South Pacific (Whitley Bay Playhouse), 'John, Duke of Bedford' in Henry V (The People's Theatre, Newcastle), 'Mac' in Annie Get Your Gun (The Jubilee Theatre, Gosforth), 'Harold Crompton' in Spring and Port Wine, 'Fred Dyson' in When We Are Married, 'The Waiter' in Strangers on a Train and 'Ed Cleckner' in The Golden Girls: T'was The Nightmare Before Christmas (all for Tynemouth Priory Theatre). Dying for Fame marks Steve's debut as a playwright.
Plays by Steve Burbridge
Dying For Fame | ||
| 1st Produced: | To be confirmed | 2012 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Productions Limited | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129412 | |||
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Genre: | Psychological Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | Five well-known actresses arrive at a remote mansion in the English countryside to attend a weekend workshop with Maxwell de Santorra, a mysterious, reclusive movie producer. Each of them are desperate to win the role that promises to resurrect even the most flagging of careers and propel one lucky actress to super-stardom. But, the elusive producer is nowhere to be found and the mansion is inhabited by only an ageing butler and a religiously devout housekeeper. Things take a sinister turn when a black-clad figure is spotted roaming the grounds. Soon, two in the house will be dead and the remaining occupants will have to put aside professional rivalry and their suspicion and paranoia of one another if they are to survive their ordeal, and discover who has brought them together and the reason why. Dying for Fame is a taut psychological thriller, with elements of high camp and comedy, that contains a combustive mix of characters and explores the fascinating cult of celebrity; the fickleness of fame, the contradictions between the fear of being stalked and the desire for notoriety, and using and being used by the media. | |||||
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