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- What I do... (Actor, director, designer, teacher etc?)
- I'm a playwright and poet.
- My Quick CV
- Before finding his feet as a playwright, Ed had spent several years working as a binman, occasional stand-up poet and (for one unbearably cold season) as a husky trainer in Lapland. He became one of The Old Vic's New Voices in 2004 with his first play, SUGARED GRAPEFRUIT. The next year he became Writer-on-Attachment at Chichester Festival Theatre where his epic play LUCY won the Chichester Festival Theatre Slams. He is a published poet and has performed his poetry on Radio 4 ("A Hot New Talent", The Radio Times). Ed is currently writing A MONGREL ISLAND a stage play for Soho Theatre. Last year, his play NEVER EVER AFTER was short-listed for the Meyer-Whitworth prize for new writing.
Ed has studied playwrighting under Stephen Jeffries at RADA and more recently attended workshops by On Theatre at Soho Writer’s Centre. He regularly works as a mentor and dramaturg at drama schools such as East 15, Rose Bruford, The Academy of Creative Training and for writers/devising groups at The Nightingale Theatre and Otherplace Productions. He is currently Writer-in-Residence at Upstairs at Three and Ten, Brighton.
Radio:
THE MOMENT YOU FEEL IT
RADIO 4: Afternoon Play
MAY 2009 Starring Richard Briers and Rory Kinnear.
Directed by Jonquil Panting
‘A beautifully written, magnificently acted tragi-comedy,’
- Chris Campling, The Times, radio choice
‘The skill of the writing lies in the way it wraps past and present, conveying the episodic, disjointed, random nature of memory… done with great care and compassion from start to finish,’
- Paul Donovan, The Sunday Times, Pick of the day
AROMATHERAPY
RADIO 4: Afternoon Play
APRIL 2009 Starring Martin Freeman
Directed by Chris Wallis
PORSHIA
RADIO 4: The Friday Evening Play
APRIL 2007 Starring Robert Webb and Laura Rogers
Directed by Graham Frost
‘Observant, sexy and astute,’
– The Telegraph
‘Undoubtedly the drama of the week… With lines like ‘but hope recedes like hairlines into well-behaved side-partings,’ lingering long after the audio orgasm has faded,’
- Jane Anderson The Radio Times
ABSOLUTE SILENCE
BBC 7: ‘The 7th Dimension’
Directed by Colin Guthrie
Theatre
TOTAL
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL FRINGE
MAY 2008. SQUAREMOON LTD
Directed by Lora Davies
‘Totally unique, beguiling and cutting edge theatre,’
- 3Weeks (4 STARS)
‘Ed Harris's vibrant, undulating dialogue is given the all the pace and space it needs to smack you between the eyes one minute and run it's fingers through your hair the next. A hymn to the human condition circa 2008...’
- Fringe Review (4 STARS)
THE COW PLAY
ARTS COUNCIL FUNDED 3 WEEK TOUR OF THE SOUTH
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2007.
Directed by Andrea Brooks
‘The disgustingly talented Ed Harris has gone from enfant terrible to the leading light of Brighton’s theatre scene…’
– Insight Magazine
LUCY
THE BRIGHTON PAVILION, BRIGHTON DOME
APRIL 2007, ACADEMY OF CREATIVE TRAINING
Directed by Andrea Brooks
Lucy has also been performed by The National Youth Theatre (Brighton Fringe Festival 2006, directed by Tessa Walker), and in 2005 won the Chichester Festival Theatre’s Playwright Slams (in a rehearsed reading directed by Tom Hescott).
NEVER, EVER AFTER
A RURAL TOUR with venues including
THE THEATRE ROYAL, MARGATE and THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
Directed by Philip Dart
FEBRUARY - APRIL 2007
Never Ever After was short-listed for the Meyer-Whitworth prize for new writing 2008.
‘Poignant… a promising young playwright… Clear sighted and clear voiced’
– The Stage
SUGARED GRAPEFRUIT
Rehearsed reading at the first The Old Vic's New Voices season of plays in 2004, and showcase performances at THE OLD VIC, THE THEATRE ROYAL BRIGHTON AND THE KOMEDIA
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Posted on February 24, 2009 at 3:30pm —
Total
Posted on May 8, 2008 at 12:14pm —
Total
Following on from their massively successful tour of The Cow Play in late 2007, Squaremoon Ltd are playing The Brighton Fringe Festival this May.
Part play, part poetry. Total is a lyrical and haunting new piece by Ed Harris ('The Disgustingly Talented' - Insight Magazine / 'Observ… Continue
Posted on April 21, 2008 at 9:23am —
The Cow Play
The Cow Play is a darkly comic and provocative play about identity, love, networking at funerals and a woman who is turning into a cow. Squaremoon Ltd have got their Arts Council funding, and are touring The Cow Play in September this year. If you do get the chance, please please please do come and see it!
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… ContinuePosted on July 25, 2007 at 3:47pm —
Porshia, The Friday Evening Play, Radio 4 (27.04.07)
'When was the last time you heard a woman orgasm on Radio 4? [Porshia] is no ratings-grabbing piece of sordid titillation, however... It twists the traditional assumptions of what men like about women and women like about men. Given the raw subject matter, the language is surprisingly poetic, with lines like "But hope recedes like hairlines into well-behaved side partings" lingering long after memories of the audio orgasm have faded. Undoubtedly the drama of the week." - The Radio Tim
… ContinuePosted on April 21, 2007 at 1:28pm — 1 Comment
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