Nell Leyshon

Nell Leyshon (* 1962 in Glastonbury , Somerset , England ) is an English playwright and author .

Life

Leyshon graduated from the University of Southampton with an honors degree in English literature . Since 2002 she has published her plays, some of which were first broadcast as radio plays on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3 . Two of her novels and two short stories in one volume were published between 2004 and 2008.

Leyshon was visiting professor at the University of Southampton in 2011. She lives in the county of Dorset .

Works

Plays / radio plays, all published by Oberon Books , London

• 2002: Milk. with Stephen McAnena ; honored with the Richard Imison Memorial Award in 2003
• 2002: The Farm. performed at the Southwark Playhouse , London
• 2003: Glass Eels. 2007 at the Hampstead Theater , London
• 2003: Documentation: The Home Field
• 2005: Comfort me with Apples. performed at the Hampstead Theater; honored with the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award
• 2007: winter. listed in Newfoundland , Canada
• 2007: based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier Don't Look Now which was commissioned by the Sheffield Theaters . In the performance at the Lyceum Theater in Sheffield with music by J. Peter Schwalm led Lucy Baily Director. Further performances took place at the Lyric Theater Hammersmith , London.
• 2009: Paradise. with the Salt Factory drama collective from Dorset was performed in the south west of England.
• 2010: Bedlam. at the Globe Theater in London. It is the first play by a female author to be performed in the Globe since it was founded in 1599 and is set in the 18th century in the London insane asylum Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as Bedlam , which still existed in Bromley in 2011 . It premiered at the Globe on September 5, 2010.

Books

• The Farm . Oberon, London 2002, ISBN 1-8400-2329-5 .
• Black Dirt . Picador, Pan Macmillan, London 2004.
• Comfort Me with Apples . Oberon, London 2005, ISBN 1-8400-2633-2 .
• Devotion . Picador, Pan Macmillan, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-330426411 .
• Glass Eels . Oberon, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84002-753-2 .
• The Voice. Picador, Pan Macmillan, London 2008 with the two short stories The Voice and F Sharp .
• based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier: Don't Look Now. Oberon, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84002-730-3 .
• Bedlam . Oberon, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84943-052-4 .
• The Color of Milk . Ecco, New York City, USA 2012, ISBN 978-0-062245823 .
  • Translation: The color of milk . German by Wibke Kuhn , Eisele Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-96161-000-6 .
• Memoirs of a Dipper . Fig Tree, 2015
• The forest . German by Wibke Kuhn , Eisele Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3961610525 .

Web links

• Short biography (en.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Writing for the Building in: Financial Times, August 28, 2010, Life & Arts p. 12.