Dave Windass
{{Short description|English playwright}}
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Dave Windass, born in west Hull in 1965, is an English playwright.
Windass is a former theatre critic for The Stage and a journalist for the Hull Daily Mail.{{cite news|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/theatre/From-RL-to-RNLI-.3712134.jp|title=From RL to RNLI – playwright is hoping for another winner|date=25 January 2008 |work=Yorkshire Post|access-date=21 February 2009}} While part of the new writers group at Hull Truck Theatre, he wrote his first full-length play in 2005, Kicked into Touch, about the 1980 Challenge Cup Final when Hull Kingston Rovers met archrivals Hull FC at Wembley, and then wrote the play Sully, a biography of the rugby league legend Clive Sullivan in 2006.{{cite news|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/culture/Tackling-the-life-story-of.1513570.jp|title=Tackling the life story of a legend|last=Ahad|first=Nick|date=19 May 2006 |work=Yorkshire Post|access-date=21 February 2009}} He became a full-time playwright in 2007, and received a grant from Arts Council England to write a play about J. Arthur Rank.{{cite news |first=Charles |last=Hutchinson |title=New play about great Yorkshireman J Arthur Rank |url=http://www.thepress.co.uk/news/1105346.new_play_about_great_yorkshireman_j_arthur_rank/ |work=The Press (York) |date= 5 January 2007 |access-date=1 August 2008 }} He used his experience of working at the Hull Daily Mail to tell the story of the community and people around the RNLI station at Spurn Point on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in the play On A Shout, which was premiered at Hull Truck Theatre in January 2008.{{cite news |first=Alfred |last=Hickling |title= review: On a Shout |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/jan/30/theatre2 |work=The Guardian |date=30 January 2008 |access-date=1 August 2008 }}
Plays
- Off Their Trolleys, a Hull Truck Blockheads! Production at Hull Truck Theatre in 2004.
- Kicked Into Touch, a Hull Truck Blockheads! Production at Hull Truck Theatre in 2005.
- Sully, a Hull Truck Production at Hull Truck Theatre in 2006.
- On A Shout, a Hull Truck Production at Hull Truck Theatre in 2008.{{cite news |title=On a Shout (Hull) |url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821201472060&title=On+a+Shout+%28Hull%29 |work=What's On Stage |access-date=1 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080330083526/http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8821201472060&title=On+a+Shout+%28Hull%29 |archive-date=30 March 2008 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=Review of On A Shout|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/theatre/Review-On-A-Shout-.3735853.jp |work=Yorkshire Post |access-date=1 August 2008 }}{{cite news |first=Kevin |last=Berry |title=Review of On a Shout |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/19694/on-a-shout |work=The Stage |date= 30 January 2008 |access-date=1 August 2008 }}
- Gagging For It, co-written with Morgan Sproxton for Humber Mouth at Hull Truck Theatre in 2009.
- Thinspiration, for Humber Mouth at Hull Truck Theatre in 2010.
- Ballroom Blitz, a Hull Truck Production at Hull Truck Theatre in 2012.{{cite news |title=Ballroom Blitz (Hull)|url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/theatre/london/E8831340354119/Ballroom+Blitz+%28Hull%29 |work=What's On Stage |access-date=21 June 2012 }}{{cite news |first=Alfred |last=Hickling |title=Review of Ballroom Blitz|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/jun/21/ballroom-blitz-review|work=The Guardian |date= 21 June 2012 |access-date=21 June 2012 }}
- Firestarter, for Ensemble 52 at 24:7 Theatre Festival in 2012.{{cite news |title=Firestarter (Manchester) |url=http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Story-Hull-serial-killer-Bruce-Lee-inspired-Dave/story-16547659-detail/story.html |work=Hull Daily Mail |access-date=17 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720022153/http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Story-Hull-serial-killer-Bruce-Lee-inspired-Dave/story-16547659-detail/story.html |archive-date=20 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}
- Euphoria, co-written with Morgan Sproxton for Ensemble 52 at Fruit and Humber Street, Hull in 2012.{{cite news |title=In the market for a play with a difference |url=http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/MARKET-PLAY-DIFFERENCE/story-16854699-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505102120/http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/MARKET-PLAY-DIFFERENCE/story-16854699-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2013 |work=Hull Daily Mail |access-date=17 September 2012 }}
- Revolutions, for Ensemble 52 in association with Hull Truck Theatre at Hull Truck in 2015, with a soundtrack of 9 original pieces written, recorded and produced by Steve Cobby.
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Category:English dramatists and playwrights