Alice Nutter (writer)
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{{Infobox writer
|name = Alice Nutter
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|7|10|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Burnley, Lancashire, England
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|nationality = British
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|occupation = {{hlist|Musician|screenwriter}}
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|module = {{Infobox musical artist
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| occupation =
| instrument = Vocals, percussion
| years_active = 1982–2004
| label = {{flatlist|
- Agit-Prop
- One Little Indian
- EMI
- MUTT Records/No Masters
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| associated_acts = Chumbawamba
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}}Alice Nutter (born Anne Holden; 10 July 1962)[http://webspace.webring.com/people/ku/um_2959/cwfaq.html Chumbawamba FAQ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425054948/http://webspace.webring.com/people/ku/um_2959/cwfaq.html |date=2015-04-25 }} Accessed 2011{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jan/14/chumbawamba-alice-nutter-trust-tv |title=How Alice Nutter went from Chumbawamba to prestige TV |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=3 May 2019 |date=14 January 2019 |first=Sam |last=Wollaston}} is an English retired musician, best known as part of the anarchist music group Chumbawamba, and writer for theatre, radio and television.
Early life
Musical career
Nutter joined Chumbawamba in 1982, not long after the band formed, and took up residence in their squat in Armley.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/chumbawamba-they-got-knocked-down-793921.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512002213/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/chumbawamba-they-got-knocked-down-793921.html |archive-date=2008-05-12 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=Chumbawamba: They got knocked down...|date=11 March 2008|access-date=1 September 2009|work=The Independent|first=Tim|last=Cumming}}; Steve Bottoms, 'Struggling to be Human', in the programme for the 2013 West Yorkshire Playhouse production My Generation. With her music and politics closely integrated, Nutter picketed during the 1984-85 miners' strike and the 1986 Wapping dispute. In 1997, the band had an international hit with their song "Tubthumping", on which Nutter was a vocalist. She performed with the band on numerous international television shows and at the 1998 BRIT Awards. Nutter left Chumbawamba in 2006 to start a new career as a playwright.Steve Bottoms, 'Struggling to be Human', in the programme for the 2013 West Yorkshire Playhouse production My Generation. In 2012, she returned to the band for their final live performance at the Leeds City Varieties, recorded on the live DVD Going, Going – Live at Leeds City Varieties.
Writing career
Her theatre work includes Foxes (2006) at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Where's Vietnam? (2008) for Red Ladder Theatre Company at West Yorkshire Playhouse. Her radio work includes the afternoon play Snow In July (2008) for Radio 4 and the play My Generation (2012) for Radio 3. In 2013, My Generation was brought to the West Yorkshire Playhouse by its artistic director James Brining in the first full-scale, main-stage production of Nutter's work.Steve Bottoms, 'Struggling to be Human', in the programme for the West Yorkshire Playhouse production [http://www.wyp.org.uk/what's-on/2013/my-generation/ My Generation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131028161345/http://www.wyp.org.uk/what's-on/2013/my-generation/ |date=2013-10-28 }}. Staged October 5–26, 2013 In 2016, the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds staged Nutter's play the Barnbow Canaries about women munition workers in Barnbow, Leeds, during the First World War. The factory the women were working in exploded one day in December 1915 and killed 35 and injured many more.{{cite news|last1=Long|first1=Chris|title=Barnbow Canaries: Telling the stories of WW1 munitions workers|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36558506|access-date=21 June 2016|work=BBC News|date=21 June 2016}}
For television, Nutter has written an episode of Jimmy McGovern's series The Street (2007) and an episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty (2009). She has also written an episode of Moving On, Jimmy McGovern's series, Accused and period drama The Mill. Nutter wrote a biographical drama based on the life of the Mancunian comedian Bernard Manning, but cuts to the BBC4 budget led to the piece never being filmed.
In March 2014, Spanner Films announced that Nutter would be one of the writers for Undercovers, a television drama series about the undercover police officers who infiltrated the British activist scene for 50 years, and the women who unknowingly had long-term relationships and even children with the spies. The series was also written by Simon Beaufoy, and was to be produced by Tony Garnett.{{cite news | title = Spanner Films press release | date = 7 March 2014 | url = http://spannerfilms.net/undercovers | access-date = 2014-03-13 | archive-date = 13 March 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140313064000/http://spannerfilms.net/undercovers | url-status = dead }} The project did not come to fruition, but she later worked on the FX series Trust with Beaufoy about the Getty family and the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, broadcast on BBC2 in 2018. With Beaufoy, she wrote the sequel television series to the 1997 film The Full Monty, produced by FX on Hulu and Disney+.{{cite web|title=The Full Monty: Disney+ Revives 1997 BAFTA-Winning Film As Limited TV Series; Original Cast Including Robert Carlyle & Tom Wilkinson To Return|url=https://deadline.com/2022/03/disney-revives-full-monty-robert-carlyle-1234987731/|work=Deadline Hollywood|last=Goldbart|first=Max|date=28 March 2022}}{{cite web|title='Taking their clothes off was a metaphor': The Full Monty creators on the return of their Sheffield strippers
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/19/full-monty-disney-plus-simon-beaufoy-alice-nutter|work=The Guardian|last=Nutter|first=Alice|date=19 May 2023}}
Personal life
She changed her name by deed poll, feeling "an affinity" to the woman accused and hanged as a result of the 17th-century Pendle witch hunt.{{Cite web|url=http://endeacott.com/interviews/alice-nutter-interview/|title=Alice Nutter interview | Robert Endeacott|website=Endeacott.com|access-date=23 September 2024}}
Nutter is an atheist."Singer and atheist Alice Nutter, a Jewish student and an Anglican businessman each join a Muslim family in Bradford to experience Ramadan first hand, and through some hard conversations get a unique view of what it's like to be a Muslim in contemporary Britain." [http://www.trilt.ac.uk/ TRILT]: 'Fast Friends, BBC1, Sunday 14 Nov 04, 23:45 (35 mins)' (accessed May 22, 2008).
Writing credits
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| The Street
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| Casualty
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|BBC One |
| Moving On
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|BBC One |
| Accused
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|BBC One |
| 32 Brinkburn Street
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|BBC One |
| Justice
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|BBC One |
| The Mill
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| The White Princess
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| Trust
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|FX |
| The Full Monty
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|FX |
Awards and nominations
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| 2011
|Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award |Best Television Drama Series (with Jimmy McGovern, Daniel Brocklehurst and Esther Wilson) |{{nom}} | |
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141112084425/http://www.mbalit.co.uk/author/157 MBA Literary and Script Agents: Alice Nutter]
- [http://endeacott.com/interviews/alice-nutter-interview/ Alice Nutter interview]
- {{IMDb name|2857187|Alice Nutter}}
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Category:English dramatists and playwrights
Category:English television writers
Category:English screenwriters