James Graham (playwright)

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James Graham , OBE , FRSL (born July 8, 1982 in Mansfield , Nottinghamshire ) is a British playwright and screenwriter.

Career

Graham grew up in a working class family in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and studied drama at the University of Hull . He became playwright-in-residence at the Finborough Theater in London, where he directed his first play Albert's Boy .

Graham's plays often deal with British politics. His breakthrough came in 2012 with This House , staged at the Royal National Theater and a commercial and critically acclaimed success. For This House Graham was first for an Olivier Award in the category Screenplay Best nominated. Due to the high demand, This House was performed again from 2016 to 2018, first in the West End and then as part of a tour of the United Kingdom. During the COVID-19 pandemic , This House was streamed for free on Youtube as one of 16 plays by the National Theater as part of the NT Live at Home series.

A performance of his drama The Vote , which depicts the events of a fictional London polling station in the final 90 minutes of the 2015 general election, was broadcast live on television on election day before the projections were published. This makes The Vote the first play that was staged at the time it was set.

Graham had his next big successes in 2018 with Labor of Love and Ink. Both pieces were nominated for several Oliviers in the same year and Labor of Love won in the category "Best New Comedy". Ink was staged and acclaimed on Broadway in 2019 and was nominated for six Tony Awards . Graham wrote the book for the Broadway musical Finding Neverland .

Graham has been writing regularly for television since 2015. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for the first time for his screenplay for Brexit: The Uncivil War . His play Quiz was filmed as a three-part film for television in 2020, Graham himself wrote the script for it. The play premiered in 2017, directed by Daniel Evans, at the prestigious Chichester Theater Festival. The year before, his older play This House ( premiered in 2012) had already celebrated a successful re-production there.

Awards

In May 2019 his play This House was voted "Play of the Decade" by Bloomsbury Verlag.

In 2020, Graham was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Elizabeth II .

Works

Plays

  • 2005: Albert's Boy
  • 2006: Eden's Empire
  • 2007: Little Madam
  • 2008: Tory Boyz
  • 2008: Sons of York
  • 2009: A History of Falling Things
  • 2009: SuddenLossOfDignity.Com (in collaboration with Zawe Ashton, Joel Horwood, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Michelle Terry)
  • 2010: Basset
  • 2010: Relish
  • 2010: The Man
  • 2010: The Whiskey Taster
  • 2012: This House
  • 2014: Finding Neverland ( Musical : Music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy )
  • 2014: The Angry Brigade
  • 2014: Privacy
  • 2015: The Vote
  • 2016: Monster Raving Loony
  • 2017: The Culture
  • 2017: Quiz
  • 2017: Labor of Love
  • 2017: Ink
  • 2018: Sketching

Movie and TV

  • 2015: Coalition
  • 2015: X + Y
  • 2019: Brexit: The Uncivil War
  • 2019: The Crown (TV series, ep.3.06 Tywysog Cymru )
  • 2020: Quiz (three-part television adaptation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ayes to the playwright James Graham interview. January 28, 2013, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ On my radar: James Graham's cultural highlights. January 14, 2018, accessed on July 31, 2020 .
  3. ^ Albert's Boy - Finborough Theater. Retrieved July 31, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ This House on tour in the UK from February 2018. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  5. ↑ This House five-star review - James Graham's thrilling political play returns. November 30, 2016, accessed July 31, 2020 .
  6. ^ NT at Home: This House | National Theater streaming on YouTube and NT Collection. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  7. ^ Hannah Furness: Live play set in the final minutes of the general election to be broadcast in TV first . November 3, 2014, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed July 31, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Masterclass | Nuturing New Talent. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ben Brantley: Review: In 'Ink,' a Mephistopheles Named Murdoch Takes Charge . In: The New York Times . July 7, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 31, 2020]).
  10. ^ Gwilym Mumford: Emmy nominations: the 2019 list . In: The Guardian . July 16, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed July 31, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Cynthia Littleton, Cynthia Littleton: ITV and AMC Order 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' Cheating Drama 'Quiz'. In: Variety. August 16, 2019, accessed on July 30, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Bloomsbury.com: This House. Accessed July 30, 2020 (English).
  13. ↑ Nicola Bartlett, Dan Bloom, PA Media: New Year Honors list in full - all the people rewarded for services to UK. December 27, 2019, accessed July 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Graham, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Mansfield , Nottinghamshire