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MICHAEL ROSS |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: JFL Agency Ltd |
Michael studied Scriptwriting at Bournemouth University, as well as attending writing courses with the Royal Court and Soho Theatre. His first full length play 'Teachers' Playground' was performed at the Landor in May 2006 before transferring to Edinburgh in August that year.
Plays by Michael Ross
Daily Hell | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Red Lion Theatre, 418 St John Street, London EC1V 4NJ >>> | 02 Mar 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 | #127407 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy - Short | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performed as part of 'Redfest; a festival of new writing.' | |||||
Synopsis: | After writing "who reads this fascist shit?" on a colleague's Daily Mail, a man is accused of bullying in the workplace and must fight to keep his job. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dare Me To The Desert | ||
| 1st Produced: | King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>> | 2009 | ||||
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 | #95570 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | After a teacher is arrested in the Sudan for naming a teddy bear Mohammed, provocative English journalist Jack Feltham instigates a series of 'teddy bear picnic' protests outside mosques, one of which goes horribly wrong. As Jack deals with questions of responsibility, he is haunted by the ghost of Darren Isaacs, a soldier killed in Iraq whom Jack had inspired to enlist with his pro-war columns. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 503 (Latchmere Theatre), 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW >>> | 23 Jan 2012 | ||||
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 | #136660 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performed as part of the event 'Rapid Write Response to Man In The Middle.' | |||||
Synopsis: | Fictionalised account of US soldier Bradley Manning's last time on leave in Boston in early 2011. A one night stand turns into a terrifying military interrogation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Eyes Full Of Pornography | ||
| 1st Produced: | RADA, London. | 15 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | Eyebrow Productions | |||||
| 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 | #118275 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Short Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Also later performed as part of 'In An Instant' at Theatre503. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two men relate how they first met ten years ago in a Soho bar, where Dan leant over and whispered something in Matthew's ear which would change his life forever. A blackly comic look at how religion corrupts the innocent. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Handful of Mustard Seed, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rehearsed reading at The Bush Library, London. | 13 Oct 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 | #127408 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Ex-con and recovering alcoholic turned spirit medium Shelley Hughes invites you to take a seat and join her audience as she prepares to summon up the ghosts of your loved ones. But her own eventful past also haunts the evening, and it's not just the dead who drop in to disrupt proceedings. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hungry Heart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 12 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | Little Pieces of Gold | |||||
| 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 | #136661 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performed as part of the event 'Little Pieces of Love.' | |||||
Synopsis: | In a gay bar in Milwaukee, 1991, 17 year old Connor is looking for something 'meaningful' and thinks he's found it when he gets chatting to the quiet, enigmatic Jeffrey Dahmer. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Low Prices You Can Taste | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | In Company/Off Cut Festival 2011 | |||||
| 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 | #133444 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Satire on the all-powerful supermarket industry. A store manager grills a shelf-stacker about his commitment to the company. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rats Nests | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Old Vic Tunnels, London | 18 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | OTB Productions | |||||
| 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 | #136662 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Performed as part of the Vault Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | Told backwards, the story of couple Edward and Victoria, beginning as tramps in 2012, then as wealthy property developers in the 1980s, and finally as idealistic students in the 1970s. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shyness Can Stop You | ||
| 1st Produced: | Etcetera Theatre, 265 Camden High Street, London NW1 7BU >>> | 04 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Little Pieces of Gold | |||||
| 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 | #133445 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sian, a 'recovered' shy person, dispenses advice at her support group for the socially awkward. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Teachers' Playground | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #86594 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Education takes a back seat as the teachers plot, bully and bitch in the school staff room. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #114780 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A surreal night in the bed-sit of a failed comedian as a succession of ghosts from his past emerge from the wardrobe to perform stand-up routines in front of him. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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They Won't Kill You | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #86593 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Prime Minister has re-branded himself Team Leader, his country Team Britain and has declared war on all those who lack the Team Spirit. Shy, reclusive loner Malcolm Colefield suddenly finds himself an object of mob vilification. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tomorrow We Build Our Jerusalem | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dogstar, Brixton, London | 24 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | blank pages | |||||
| 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 | #118276 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | During rehearsals for a play to celebrate the centenary of the world's first all-female nation state, first founded by Suffragettes in 1910, fissures in the actresses relationship are opened up by their differing attitudes to history. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waterloo Sunset | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Corner House, Surbiton. | 2006 | ||||
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 | #86548 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The lives of two tramps, a suicidal young man and a Christian street preacher intersect on Waterloo bridge the day a whale swims past. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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