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Simon Donald

SIMON DONALD

  (1959 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Simon was born in Lanark, Scotland in 1959. educated at Garrion Academy, Wishaw and Aberdeen University. He became a professional actor in 1983 working mainly in new plays at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and also in television and film. His credits as a writer include the stage plays A Tenant for Edgar Mortez, In Descent and Prickly Heat; television Dramas Deacon Broadie, the ebb-Tide, the Last Frontier, Low Winter Sun and Methuselah; feature films the Life of Stuff, My Life So Far, Beautiful Creatures, Sleep Without Dreams and Thylacine. He is married to the photographer Carol Gordon and they live in edinburgh

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         Disneyland         In Descent         Life Of Stuff, The         Prickly Heat         Tenant For Edgar Mortez
Disneyland

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.11524/17

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In Descent

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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh     1985

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.10577/33

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Life Of Stuff, The

Life Of Stuff, The
a brilliantly funny fly-on-the-wall snapshot of eight lives careering out of control. Small-time crook and aspirant pharmaceutical entrepreneur Willie Dobie's best laid plans unravel when human nature takes its predictably unpredictable course . . .

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won the evening Standards Drama Award, the London Critics choice Award And was nominated for A Best Comedy Olivier Award.

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Black Comedy Thriller Comedy

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.11524/16

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Prickly Heat

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in "First Run", Hern, London, 1989   

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - acc.9454/10

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Tenant For Edgar Mortez

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Abattoir Theatre     1984

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