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Freddie Machin

FREDDIE MACHIN

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Elaine Steel Management  

Freddies debut play, Chicken, was performed at Southwark Playhouse which he has since adapted for the screen. Starring Yasmin Paige and Morgan Watkins, the feature film premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015, was in competition at the Busan Festival, South Korea and won the Grand Jury Prize at the New Hampshire Film Festival. He wrote and performed an award winning one-man show about the young Winston Churchill. Winston on the Run, garnered 4 and 5 star reviews at Edinburgh 2012 before going on a UK wide tour. Other works of his have been performed at the Royal Opera House, Battersea Arts Centre and Northern Stage as well as a recent commission for Chichester Festival Theatre. He is currently developing a new verbatim cabaret about the closure of LGBTQ venues in London.

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

         12 Miles from Nowhere         Chicken         Dont Waste Your Bullets on the Dead         Jailbait         Pavlik Morozov         Revenge of Martha G         Twelve Miles From Nowhere         Winston On the Run

12 Miles from Nowhere

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Chicken

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Richard and Polly are brothers. Holed up in a knackered caravan on someone else's land, their chicken has stopped laying and Rickson, the new land owner, wants them gone. Richard longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother needs to keep moving. A chance meeting with seventeen year old Annabel, Rickson's daughter, leaves Richard besotted; whilst Polly befriends the guys who run a seedy travelling fair and decides to follow them to Nottingham. With or without Richard. Torn between loyalty as companion to his destructive brother or the chance of stability and working on the farm, Richard must make his decision before the fair leaves following the Easter weekend.

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comedy 70 min

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Dont Waste Your Bullets on the Dead

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Everyone expects Ellen Billingtons new play to be the theatrical sensation of the year. Everyone except Ellen. In the grip of writers block and with her deadline fast approaching Ellen finds inspiration in a surprising place. A sharp and witty comedy about the personal sacrifices people make in the name of art and whether theyre worth it.

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Vaults Festival 2016

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The Vaults, Leake St, Waterloo, SE1 7NN     10 Feb 2016

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comedy 55 min

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Jailbait

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Based on a real case, Jailbait is the story of a 14 year-old girl, who for better or worse, finds her destiny at the sharp edge of a blade. What sequence of events could possibly result in her perpetrating an act of murder? Can she ever be justified in violence? Does she deserve our applause or condemnation? In Jacobean tragedies we relish witnessing the cruellest of acts occurring to the most vulnerable. What makes us gasp and delight in horrific fictional detail and not do the same in our everyday life? the Young Murderess is about a young person in crisis, on the brink of the age of consent and on a precipice overlooking her fate

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part of 4 Play 2011

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Northumberland Theatre Company / InteraCT

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Pavlik Morozov

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Revenge of Martha G

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Twelve Miles From Nowhere

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my dad had this farm, passed down from his dad and it'll stay in this family. No way they're getting their greasy hands on it.' Since Michael and Emily's mother left, time has stood still. Their Father James is struggling and can't see a way forward. The farm is in a bad way and going under. . .Then Craig arrives with enough charisma and ambition to charm the birds from the trees. But is he really the answer to their dreams? Set on a remote northern farm, Twelve Miles from Nowhere is a moving and compelling account of what happens when a vulnerable, isolated family let an engaging young stranger into their lives. Merging the dreams and aspirations found in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men with the northern edge and humour of Barry Hines' Kes, this stunning new play about life on the edge is set against an unexpectedly gritty rural backdrop.

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written by Kevin Dyer, Sarah Calver, Freddie Machin, Doug Crossley and Ben Worth

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Action Transport Theatre, Whitby Hall, Stanney Lane, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire Ch 65     23 Sep 2013

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Karen Simpson Productions

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Play/Drama

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Winston On the Run

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the play is set in 1899 when escaped prisoner-of-war Winston Churchill is in a spot of bother - lost in the African savannah, circled by vultures and wanted dead or alive. This is the rollicking true story of how Britains greatest hero defeated the Boers, overcame his demons and grew his first moustache.

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created by FrEddie Machin And John Walton

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Pauper's Pit, Underground Venues, The Square, Buxton     20 Jul 2012

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short play

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