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DAWN KING |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Berlin Associates represented by Julia Mills |
Dawn King is an award winning writer who works in theatre, radio and film. She also teaches playwrighting and creative writing to adults and children. Her play Foxfinder won the Papatango new writing competition and will be produced at The Finborough from the 29th of November to the 22nd of December 2011. She was one of ten writers chosen for the BBC Writersroom 10 scheme, and through this received a seed commission to write for West Yorkshire Playhouse. Previous theatre work includes: Water Sculptures/ZOO double bill - The Union Theatre, Face Value - Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, The Bitches' Ball - Hoxton Hall, National Tour and Edinburgh Assembly Rooms and Doghead Boy and Sharkmouth Go To Ikea - The Junction, Cambridge. Dawn writes regularly for BBC Radio and is working on My One and Only, an afternoon play for broadcast next year. Her feature film script The Squatter's Handbook won the UK Film Council's 25 Words or Less pitching competition in 2005, and she currently has a short in development with the British Film Institute. Dawn was a member of both the Soho Theatre and Royal Court Theatre Young Writers' Programmes and has an MA distinction in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths University, London.
Plays by Dawn King
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| 1st Produced: | 14 Jul 2005 | |||||
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| 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 | #138230 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | War rages. Society is crumbling. What happens at the Zoo? Workshopped and developed at The Royal Court | |||||
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Arrival With Baggage | ||
| 1st Produced: | rehearded reading Royal Court, London | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Royal Court New Writing Festival | |||||
| 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 | #49213 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | When Will turns up on Alistairs doorstep covered in bruises and saying everything is OK, Alistair is completely out of his depth. | |||||
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Bitches Ball, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hoxton Hall, London | 23 Oct 2006 | ||||
Company: | Penny Dreadful Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #59382 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | Poet, courtesan, actress, royal mistress: Mary Robinson had a rather more exotic life than her name suggests, and it's told with fitting colour by Penny Dreadful, a company that gives obscure historical characters the devised treatment. Director Mick Barnfather brings to this comic biography all the physical zaniness and invention you would expect of his Complicite and Peepolykus credentials. Mira Dovreni's Mary begins the story with little more than a bundle of rags, pissing in a bucket; in an opium fug, we follow her flashback journey through eighteenth-century celebrity. Whirling us along through an endlessly surprising set -from Mary's schoolroom to her much-frequented boudoir - a comic ensemble create both high society and low, their caricatures as vibrant as their stripy pantaloons, and sing dirty ditties in Mozartian counterpoint. | |||||
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Chickpea | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Oct 2006 | |||||
Company: | part of ShorTheatre Companyuts 2006 | |||||
| 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 | #58578 | |||
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Genre: | Short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Upstart Undiscovered | |||||
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Dinosaur | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #138231 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Doghead Boy And Sharkmouth Go To Ikea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hotbed at The Junction, Cambridge | Jul 2006 | ||||
Company: | Menagerie Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #138232 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Disaffected youth meet wage slave and try to eat him. | |||||
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Early One Morning As The Sun Set | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford House, Bethnal Green, South Hill Park, Bracknell & Whitechapel Gallery | Dec 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #138233 | |||
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Notes: | Zephyr in Zanussi dance company. Dawn King worked with dancers to create text pieces and scenes. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Face Value | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Aug 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #134514 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Ophelia is a good actress, or at least she used to be. But old age is looming, she's received terrible reviews in her latest role and her daughter has packed her bags and moved out. A surgical 'new look' might be the only way to restore her confidence. Martin never misses one of Ophelia's performances. If Ophelia needs someone to reassure her that she's still attractive, still brilliant, still popular, who better than her biggest fan? But can Martin and Ophelia take each other at face value. | |||||
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Faster | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | during the Opera Festival | |||||
| 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 | #49214 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | collaboration with the theatre company Filter. Dawn King was one of two writers who worked on the first two stages of this devised show. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Foxfinder | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 27 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | Upstart Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422445 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129382 | |||
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Genre: | comic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of LabFest. Winner of the 2011 Papatango New Writing Competition(Finborough Theatre 29 Nov 2011) | |||||
| William Bloor, a foxfinder', arrives at Sam and Judith Covey's farm to investigate a suspected contamination. He is driven by his education and beliefs to unearth and destroy an animal that threatens man's civilisation, and to remain free from its influence himself. As his investigations proceed, the events that follow change the course of all their lives - for ever. | |||||
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Foxtrot | ||
| 1st Produced: | Development stage at Trestle Arts Base | May 2007 | ||||
Company: | Soma Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #138234 | |||
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Synopsis: | First stage of new devised play set during the Second World War. | |||||
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Garlic | ||
| 1st Produced: | rehearded reading Soho Theatre, London | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Soho Theatre Writer's Festival | |||||
| 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 | #49215 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Hacked | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 27 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #132176 | |||
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Genre: | collaborative piece | |||||
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Notes: | Playwrights: Ben Ellis, Marcelo Dos Santos, Dominic Cavendish, Dawn King, Anna Jordan, Matt Hartley. Curated by Derek Bond and Lisa Cagnacci | |||||
Synopsis: | All across London, phones are being hacked. Only now it's playwrights stealing the stories of brave volunteers. Will they score a scoop, or will they have to use a little artistic licence? And which will make the better story: the facts or the fiction? | |||||
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How To Live Forever | ||
| 1st Produced: | Extract performed at Hampstead Theatre Start Night | Oct 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #138235 | |||
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Synopsis: | A love, incest, body swapping, blackly funny horror play about a young Doctor whose selfishness makes monsters out of those in love with her. | |||||
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Little Deaths | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Tent, Latitude Festival, Suffolk | Jul 2006 | ||||
Company: | nabokov | |||||
| 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 | #138236 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Water Sculptures | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 13 May 2007 | ||||
Company: | Upstart Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #134515 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of London Caliing | |||||
Synopsis: | A flood destroys the 2012 Olympics and most of London with it. An artist, an athlete and an office worker find themselves on a rooftop, struggling to deal with their changed world. A surreal and darkly comic exploration of how we cling to our dreams, and how we cope without them | |||||
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Winter Tales | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Kings Arms, 11a Northington Street, London WC1N 2JF | 04 Dec 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #134516 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | written by Billy Barrett, Elizabeth Heery, Dawn King, Ant Stones and Cathy Thomas | |||||
Synopsis: | Five specially commissioned plays from five extraordinary writers. Returning to the tradition of winter storytelling, which spawned The Turn of The Screw and A Christmas Carol, Firstborn Theatre's next show Winter Tales will see us taking over a Central London pub to stage an evening of 5 chilling short stories told all around the building over the festive period. With mince pies and mulled wine to start, live music following, and a working bar throughout, this will be a cozy festive treat with a rich dark centre. Storytelling theatre at its simple best. | |||||
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Worms | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Red Lion Theatre, 418 St John Street, London EC1V 4NJ >>> | Jan 2006 | ||||
Company: | nabokov | |||||
| 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 | #138237 | |||
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Synopsis: | An event where writers wrote pieces in response to current events, which were performed a week later. | |||||
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Zoo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 May 2008 | |||||
Company: | Upstart Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #49216 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Imaginative, darkly comic and original, ZOO was read at the Royal Court Theatre in 25 Apr 2003, then played as part of the ShortCuts Festival at the Arcola Theatre and Hackney Empire. This is its first full production | |||||
Synopsis: | In the middle of an unidentified conflict, the animals in the park Zoo have found themselves abandoned. One last keeper stands between them and the outside world. When two mysterious strangers arrive in the middle of the night, the Tiger, the Chimp and the Slow Loris are forced to choose between the apparent safety of their cages and the uncertain freedoms of the outside world | |||||
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