Tony Dunham

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Tony Dunham (born April 9, 1956 in London ) is a British author , actor and director . He moved to Germany in 1989 and has lived in Cologne ever since .

Life

Tony Dunham grew up in his native London and completed his school education there. After high school he studied theater and literature at the UK University of Warwick in West Midlands . In addition to his studies, he continued his self-taught from the actor. From mid-1980 to early 1981 he worked as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London; He then worked from February 1981 to July 1981 as an acting teacher at the US University of California, Irvine . After his return to England he worked from September 1981 to June 1982 as an acting therapist in four different psychiatric clinics of Shape London Ltd. in London.

In 1981 he founded the comedy group Confederacy of Fools in London together with actor and director Robert Siān , with which he moved to Cologne in 1989. Dunham has been the artistic director of the comedy group since its inception . As the House author he wrote a year regularly in comedy - genre a new play , which he directed and in which he also appeared as an actor. He worked with a co-writer on two plays, in 1981 (Marathon) with Robert Siān and in 1984 (The wonderful, wonderful, sexy World of Theater) with Richard H. Reeves. In addition to being a writer, director and actor, he was also a producer and tour manager for Confederacy of Fools. As before in England , the comedy group had numerous appearances all over Germany and individual engagements in other European countries after moving to Cologne.

From 1981 to 2016, Dunham wrote 27 pieces in English, almost half of which were translated into German. His 1990 single comedy Traumfrau desperel sucht was shown by Confederacy of Fools in more than 800 performances in Germany until 2016; Numerous other German theaters had the comedy on their own staging. Since 1992 the comedy group has performed several times in the Theater am Sachsenring (TAS) in Cologne . On behalf of the TAS, Dunham wrote the plays Cloudbuster , Stumm! and really brecht , all three of which were staged by Joe Knipp , the artistic director of the TAS.

In addition, from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, Dunham took on individual directing and writing assignments for the stage and television . He also appeared as an actor in supporting roles in two feature films (1993, 2013), had speaking roles in a video game (2010), was portrayed in a short documentary film and acted as the narrator in another short documentary (both 2010).

Tony Dunham lives and works in Cologne.

Plays for Confederacy of Fools (selection)

Tony Dunham's plays for Confederacy of Fools are all in English . Some of them are also available in German translation and were listed in German:

  • 1981: together with Robert Siān: Marathon , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: Marathon , VVB - sales office and publisher of German stage writers and stage composers , Norderstedt)
  • 1982: Ruth Erect , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm
  • 1983: Intercourse , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm
  • 1984: together with Richard H. Reeves: The wonderful, wonderful, sexy World of Theater , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: The wonderful, wonderful, sexy world of theater , VVB, Norderstedt)
  • 1985: Skeeter and the Boy
  • 1986: Mess , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: Doktor-Spiele , VVB, Norderstedt)
  • 1987: Love-A psychological Perversity , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: Love, Sex and Therapy , VVB, Norderstedt)
  • 1988: A Pile of Dogs , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm
  • 1989: The Underpant Revue
  • 1990: Heartland , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: dream woman desperately wanted , VVB, Norderstedt)
  • 1991: Phil Noir , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: Schnüffler, Sex und Schöne Frauen , VVB, Norderstedt)
  • 1992: Flux , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: women, frustration and fertility , VVB, Norderstedt)
  • 1993: F ... Access all Areas and Passion , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: Extase , VVB, Norderstedt)
  • 1994: Bing Sings and on your Bike , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm
  • 1995: Bad Manners , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm
  • 1996: Cloudbuster , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: Cloudbuster: the function of orgasm , VVB, Norderstedt)
  • 1997: Silents Please! , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: Stumm!, VVB, Norderstedt)
  • 1998: Great Expectations , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm
  • 1999: Tarara Boom , Fischer Verlag, Berlin
  • 2000: What's the Mata Hari? , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm
  • 2001: Echt brecht , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm (in German translation: Echt brecht )
  • 2002: Struttin 'an Frettin' , Literatten-Verlag, Ulm

Further directorial work

stage

  • 1994: Die Flurk , Fakkelteater, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1998: Black Comedy , Burghofbühne Dinslaken , State Theater in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Wesel
  • 2002: Griess against Griess , Cologne

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d See information on: Tony Dunham. In: vvb.de. Distribution office and publishing house of German stage writers and stage composers (VVB), Norderstedt, 2016, accessed on August 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Cf. “Information on the author”: Tony Dunham . In: Theater Bohème (Ed.): Program for the Dunham play "Love, Sex and Therapy" . Aachen 1996 ( facsimile ; PDF, 3.11 MB [accessed on August 8, 2016]).
  3. ↑ a b Confederacy of Fools. (No longer available online.) In: theaterszene-koeln.de. Kölner Theaterkonferenz, Cologne, 2016, archived from the original on July 7, 2016 ; accessed on August 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterszene-koeln.de
  4. ↑ See information on: Tony Dunham in the Internet Movie Database (English) . Retrieved August 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Dunham, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH London