The Workshop Theatre is happy to welcome Philip Meeks as our playwrighting fellow this semester. Students taking the playwrighting module will meet with Philip for the first time on Monday afternoon, and we hope soon to arrange events where a greater number of students in the School can meet him and discuss issues of creativity.
Philip has been a professional writer for five years. For theatre he recently received the prestigious Peggy Ramsay Foundation Award. His one man play Twinkle Little Star was nominated for a Stage Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006 and received a second production at York Theatre Royal and the Lakeside Nottingham in 2008. He is currently under commission to write a new play for York Theatre Royal called Elsewhere… set against the backdrop of a daytime soap, and has written a new supernatural play I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There. He’s currently developing three new plays, Died about former Princess Diana impersonators, Dubious Taste, a revengers’ comedy about food critics and an as yet untitled play about the fact that Quentin Crisp nearly passed away in his bed.
His credits for television include the last ever series of Heartbeat and Emmerdale where he wrote 45 episodes over a three year stint as a core member of the writing team. These episodes included the 35th Anniversary hour long special. His original six part drama series Mother Truckers was developed by ITV and has recently been optioned by the ABC network in Australia. His early work in film includes the screenplay A Bit of Glitter which was developed by Screen Yorkshire and won a Screen England Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.
Philip spent Christmas 2009 writing and directing Aladdin starring David Van Day and a crop of Scottish soap stars in Arbroath, Scotland.
Rehearsed reading of Philip Meeks’s ‘Elsewhere…’ » Theatre Studies, Life and Leeds[…] Elsewhere… at the Workshop Theatre. Elsewhere… is a new play by our Playwriting Fellow Philip Meeks, and has been commissioned by the York Theatre Royal. The rehearsed reading will take place on […]May 6, 2010 – 11:38 am
David SpanswickHello Philip Meeks I am not sure if you will ever read this but I do have a lot of faith in cyberspace. We actually met this morning on Worthing Pier outside the Denton, my favourite Watering Hole. At the other end of the pier some filming was in progress which we, disappointingly, discovered was for a new Sainsbury’s ad.
What was most astounding to me was that four hours later you came bouncing on to the stage at the Connaught theatre in Not Now Darling which I thoroughly enjoyed and have to congratulate you for your stamina, I was very aware that you were giving another performance in the evening!!
Good luck with the show you made a lot of people very happy. Earlier in the year I saw your play “I Met a Man” with Brian Capron in the lead ~ excellent piece of theatre.
I may have become a fan and shall look our for more of your business!!
had I but known…..
affectionately
David SpanswickAugust 31, 2011 – 9:02 pm