Biography of Anthony Neilson

Australian representation only: Cameron Creswell Agency

Radio plays include THE COLOURS OF THE KING'S and A FLUTTERING OF WINGS His first stage play ELFARE MY LOVELY was performed at the Traverse Theatre. His second, NORMAL, played at The Edinburgh Festival and transferred to the Finborough Arms. PENETRATOR (originally commissioned by Colin Ludlow as a BBC Screenplay) played the Edinburgh Festival '93, transferred to the Finborough and then to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in January '94. Further works include THE YEAR OF THE FAMILY (Finborough 1994), HEREDITY (Royal Court) and WHITE TRASH (National Theatre Studio). He directed his play THE CENSOR at the Finborough Theatre in April 1997 which transferred to the Royal Court, Duke of Yorks, had a third run at The Ambassadors and won the Writers Guild Award for Best Fringe Play 1997. Television credits include DEEPER STILL, a 10 minute film for C4 which he wrote and directed, A TERRIBLE COLDNESS (60') for the Granada Crime Story series, BIBLE JOHN an influential episode of In Suspicious Circumstances, a commission to write screenplay for CRACKER (spin-off from Granada series for theatric release) and a 2 hour Prime Suspect film, also for Granada. His film debut THE DEBT COLLECTOR was released in 1999. In 2002 the Theatre Royal Plymouth produced EDWARD GANT'S AMAZING FEATS OF LONELINESS which he also directed, he wrote and directed STITCHING for The Bush/Red Room which played at the Traverse at the Edinburgh Festival, transferred to The Bush and toured England and Scotland afterwards and for which he was nominated Evening Standard Most Promising New Playwright. His third new play in 2002, THE LYING KIND played in the main house, Royal Court. In Sept 2004, new play THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISSOCIA played at the Tron Theatre and Royal Lyceum Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh International Festival and then at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Currently he is working on a television commission for BBC Northern Ireland and is adapting the screen version of THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, to be called USED TO SNOW for Vestry Films/Tartan Video which he will also direct. Anthony directed the UK premiere of the John Adams opera THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER for Edinburgh International Festival/Scottish Opera which won a Herald Angel Award.