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ROGER MORTIMER-SMITH
Nationality: Englishemail: Click here to contact Website: Click here
Literary Agent: Gordon Dickerson
Roger Mortimer-Smith was born in London, England. Along with Guilty Secret, he is the author of Why Don't You Just Sing Jazz?, Trauma, The Telephone and The Ties That Bind. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Spanish and Polish. He lives in London with his wife, opera singer Nadine Mortimer-Smith.
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Guilty Secret Telephone, The Ties That Bind, The Trauma Why Don't You Just Sing Jazz?Guilty Secret
A four character thriller. Two east-end chancers, George and Lennie, have kidnapped wealthy heiress Charlotte Chamberlain and taken her to a remote farmhouse. George is confident her father will pay five million to get her back safely. But why did he insist on renting the farmhouse in Lennie's name? Does he plan to double cross Lennie, frame him for the crime and keep all the money himself? Will slow-witted Lennie work out what's going on in time to save himself? Or is the kidnap only a feint to disguise an infinitely more devious scheme? And who is really pulling the strings? This intriguing new drama will chill and thrill you and keep you guessing until the last nailbiting moment.
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thriller
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Top of PageTelephone, The
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A short four character comedy. To the humble stagehand of a small regional theatre, it seemed a sensible precaution to check the onstage telephone was working. But it might have been better to do it before the play had started. . .
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The Telephone was shortlisted for the 5th Annual Ted Walters International Competition playwriting category. It was Also selected to be performed At the Future Ten Play Festival in Pittsburgh, PA in November 2011 And Awarded A staged reading At the Naked Stage Festival in Cambridge on 20th November 2011.
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scratch performance at the Blackshaw Social Club Sep 2011
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short play
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Top of PageTies That Bind, The
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What could be more horrifying than your one night stand dying of a heart attack during the act? Perhaps the discovery that he was your best friend's husband...
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The Ties That Bind won 2nd prize At the Actors And Writers Group's short play competition in December 2011
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5 minute radio comedy
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Top of PageTrauma
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A three character psychological thriller. Who was the young woman who broke into Dr Beckmann's office in the middle of the night? What was the file she was so desperate to read? Why did she show no sign of recognition when Beckmann called her by name? And how, after Beckmann stabbed her to death, did she turn up alive and well the next morning? These events are only the beginning of a descent into a nightmare in which nothing is certain least of all, whose nightmare it is.
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Top of PageWhy Don't You Just Sing Jazz?
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An educational play for four black opera singers (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone) and three black actors. Olivia, a young black girl, returns home from a singing lesson, upset because her teacher has laughed at her ambition to be an opera singer. She asks her aunt surely there are black opera singers? Of course, her aunt replies. Over the course of the evening, Olivia learns all about Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Robert McFerrin, Grace Bumbry and Jessye Norman, and hears the music that made them famous performed by modern day black opera singers playing their historical counterparts.
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opera
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