associate artist (playwright)

Colin Teevan joins the Playhouse from 1 December as Associate Artist (Playwright). As well as a commission for a new play, Colin will be working with emerging writers, taking part in discussions and special events, and consulting on the programming of the Playhouse.

Colin's stage plays include Don Quixote (with Pablo Ley), How Many Miles to Basra? (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Bee (Soho Theatre/Setagaya Theatre,Tokyo), Missing Persons: Four Tragedies and Roy Keane (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh/Trafalgar Studios), Cock of the North (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Monkey (Young Vic/Dundee Rep),  The Walls (National Theatre), Svejk (The Gate/The Duke, New York), Vinegar and Brown Paper (Abbey, Dublin), The Big Sea (Galloglass, Ireland/Riverside Studios). Stage translations include: Bacchai (National Theatre/Epidaurus, Greece), Cuckoos (The Gate/Barbican), Marathon (The Gate), Iph... (Lyric Theatre, Belfast). Radio plays include Iph..., Tricycles, The RoyKeaneiad Parts I&II, Medea: The Last Word, How Many Miles to Basra?, Glass Houses. His new version of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt for National Theatre of Scotland recently premiered at Dundee Rep.

bbc writer on attachment

Oliver Emmanuel's play, Magpie Park was seen as part of the Northern Exposure season at the Playhouse.Oliver studied at the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds and holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. As well as being the current BBC Writer on Attachment at West Yorkshire Playhouse, he is co-Artistic Director of Leeds-based Silver Tongue Theatre. Theatre includes: Gemini, IZ, Bella and the Beautiful Knight and Shiver, Oliver's new work for Silver Tongue Theatre, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2006. Much of his work has also been performed in Austria by the Vienna Theatre Project. Radio includes: By The Light Of The Moon (BBC).

plays commissioned for 2007

Don Quixote
Adapted by Pablo Ley and Colin Teevan               

Tender Dearly 
By Jodie Marshall             

Safe
By David Hermenstein      

Magpie Park
By Oliver Emmanuel    

The Yellow Doctress
By Marcia Layne   

Back When I Was Beautiful 
By Chris Thorpe
Co-commission with Soho Theatre
Set in back of bar in Manchester. Mid-life crisis of a 40-something one-time successful musician

Mela 
By Tajinder Hayer
Play set during Bradford Mela. Black British soldier comes into contact and conflict with Bradford Asians, Moslem and Sikh

Legacy
By Marcia Layne
Family comes together after death of  Father they haven’t seen in years

Day Breaks Night Falls
By Aisha Khan
Pakistani family struggle to live in 1970s Slough

Pendle Witches
By Alice Nutter 
Pendle witch play centring on the child that betrayed them

Refugee Boy
By Lemn Sissay
Adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah book

The Hounding of David Oluwale
By Oladipo Aboluaje
Adaptation of the book by Kester Aspden about the life and death of  David Oluwale in 1960s Leeds

Don’t You Leave Me Here 
By Clare Brown
Play about relationship between Tony Jackson and Jelly Roll Morton two of earliest Jazz pianists

Dust
By Kenneth Yates
About Armley Asbestos Factory

In Development

Company Along the Mile
By Tom Bidwell
About the odd friendship between two old childhood friends, meeting again in a Blackpool hotel.