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ELLA CARMEN GREENHILL (1984 - )
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British
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United Agents represented by Lindsy Bender
Ella Greenhill is a Liverpool based playwright and was a member of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers' Programme. She is currently writer on attachment with both The Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Paines Plough Theatre company in collaboration with Channel 4. Ella has also worked with The atlas Company, BBC radio Merseyside, almanac, Hampstead Theatre and The Internationalists Theatre Company. Her play, Fallen, was part of LOST Theatre's Festival in May this year. Last year her plays Into the Water and Fallen were short listed for Theatre Centre's adrienne Benham award and The Internationalists Playwriting Competition. She is currently working on two new plays, a Deafening Silence and First Class which are due to have readings in Liverpool and London 2012. She is represented by United agents.
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Broken
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In Broken, May is desperately searching for something, whilst Helen had everything she ever wanted and saw it all snatched away. As May searches for meaning, for something to hold, she finds herself torn between two people and two agonising choices.
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Organised Chaos Productions
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Deafening Silence, The
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Liverpool Everyman Theatre's Annual Everyword festival for new writing And Aspiring writers has been relocated to the Liverpool Playhouse for this year while the Everyman undergoes extensive refurbishment.
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Fallen
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May is looking for something. . .a connection. . .a life. But is it safer to be alone? "Some people get so lost They don't find their way at all" May meets Carla on a freezing day in January and they connect. Instantly. Carla likes the spring and has forgotten her gloves. May wears two pairs. Tom tells May he loves her and buys her a stick of rock. Someone is calling May. Does she need them? Or do they need her? a play about life and teetering on the edge. Sometimes we all need to escape. But just how far can we go?
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Rehearsed reading of excerpts at Hampstead Theatre, London Feb 2009
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Into The Water
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It's the year 2051. a tsunami off the east coast of Britain has forced many to flee inland to escape the flooding. Jack and Leah sit uncomfortably in their unfamiliar bedsit, watching the rain, eating grey food, waiting for Isaac. Indian born amina, heavily pregnant, chats with Jack over lunches of Turkey paste sandwiches and hot water with milk. With the world falling apart, can two people hold each other together? a play about losing and finding people.
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Rehearsed Reading, Liverpool Everyman Theatre. May 2010
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Mind The Gap
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Nina is a young, Liverpool woman on a London tube carriage, when the carriage shudders to a halt it's obvious that something serious has happaned. Trapped, Nina and her fellow passengers have to talk. Pimento Theatre invite you to immerse yourself and experience the character's external and internal thoughts and watch as their interlocking stories unravel. An innovative theatrical experience, in a story exploring modern Britain today and the gaps that exist between ourselves and others.
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Written and created by Ella Carmen Greenhill, Rachel Worsley and Joe Ward Munrow
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Pimento Theatre
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Perfect Christmas, A
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It's Christmas Day. Sylvia and John are the perfect cheery couple making their fluffy roast potatoes a la Delia and setting the table together. But who is the old woman who disrupts their day and forces Sylvia to confront her demons? as Sylivia's dream world collides with the harsh realities of her life, who can we trust and what has really happened to this perfect couple?
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Part of Miniaturists 26 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today
1st Produced:
The Cornerstone Theatre, Liverpool 20 Nov 2010
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almanac and The Miniaturists
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Dark comedy
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Plastic Figurines
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part of Word:Play/NWxSW
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Box of Tricks
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Unspoken
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a short play looking at a mother and daughters difficult relationship after years of not speaking.
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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool Jul 2009
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