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Steve King

STEVE KING  (1976 - )

 Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Giles Smart


Steve King previously served on the National Theatre's Script Panel, freelanced as a reader for Soho Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and Carlton TV's THE PLaY'S THE THING and was a producer for a number of shows including the Fringe First winning 100 (Smirnoff Underbelly, 2002).

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below is a list of Steve King's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Book Of Man, The         Emperor And The Postman, The         Incident         Mortalled         Titanic Orchestra, The         Well-Made Life, The         Yellow Lines

Book Of Man, The

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Part of Miniaturists 30 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today. written by Declan Feenan And Steve King

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Emperor And The Postman, The

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Written And directed by Steve King. Shortlisted for the Arches Award (2003)

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Incident

Steve King
When an engineering executive's boyfriend is killed in a car crash, she refuses to accept his death as an accident and compromises her job to find out the truth.

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a significantly revised version was staged At the Cochrane Theatre, London, in September, 2004

1st Produced:
Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow    08 Mar 2002

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Strathclyde Theatre Group

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Mortalled

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Mike wakes on Easter Sunday to a hangover and the taste of bad mints. Last night is a savage blur of strange words and a girl. and with a knock on the door - its not the Jehovahs Witnesses - his past is about to come flooding back. Dark and funny, Mortalled is a play about faith, hope and whats worth living for when life stops making sense.

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Script Factory

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Titanic Orchestra, The

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Four tramps huddle together on a derelict railway platform, fighting, necking vodka and scheming, without a hope in hell, to leap aboard the next train that hurtles through. But the trains never stop. a stranger is hurled from a carriage and into their midst. He claims hes the great Houdini and promises that, together, they can pull off the most incredible escape act the world has ever seen.

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from work by Hristo Boytchev

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adaptation

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Well-Made Life, The

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about a creative writing lecturer who tries, and fails, to live by the rules of dramaturgy.

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Part of Miniaturists 23 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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Yellow Lines

Steve King
The story of a corporate worker-bee, Colin, who specialises in "crowd-flow dynamics" and develops a street-management system that manipulates public behaviour in emergency situations.
Brian Logan, Time Out, London

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Human Resources

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