James Phillips (playwright)

{{Short description|British playwright, director and photographer}}

James Phillips (born 29 April 1977) is a British playwright, director and photographer.

Educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford, Phillips' first play, The Rubenstein Kiss, won both the John Whiting Award (2006){{cite news |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/14732/pair-collect-whiting-award-for-original-stage|title=Pair collect Whiting Award for original stage writing|last=Smith|first=Alistair|date=31 October 2006|work=The Stage|accessdate=24 June 2011}} and the TMA Award for Best Play. As a director he has worked extensively and was a recipient of the National Arts Endowment Award for his first professional production, Frank McGuinness's Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme at the Pleasance, London.{{cite web |url=http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/playwrights/james-phillips-iid-12426 |title=James Phillips |accessdate=25 December 2014 |website=Drama Online }}

Plays

The Little Fir Tree (2004) premiered at Sheffield Theatres, directed by James Phillips{{cite web |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/5627/the-little-fir-tree |title=The Stage / Reviews / The Little Fir Tree |accessdate=2014-12-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225200520/http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/5627/the-little-fir-tree |archivedate=2014-12-25 }}
The Rubenstein Kiss (2005) premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, directed by James Phillips
Wind in the Willows (2010) adapted for Latitude Festival, directed by Alan Lane{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/suffolk/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8831000/8831346.stm |title=BBC - In pictures: Latitude Festival 2010, Friday |publisher=BBC News |date=2010-07-17 |accessdate=2017-05-31}}
Time and the City (2011) premiered in Hull for Slung Low Theatre Company, directed by Alan Lane{{cite news|author=Nick Ahad |url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/yorkshire-living/arts/theatre-and-tv/review-mapping-the-city-1-3354892 |title=Review: Mapping the City ***** |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=2011-05-06 |accessdate=2017-05-31}}
Hidden in the Sand (2013) premiered at Trafalgar Studios, directed by James Phillips{{cite web|last=Cavendish |first=Dominic |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/10374679/Hidden-in-the-Sand-Trafalgar-Studios-review.html |title=Hidden in the Sand, Trafalgar Studios, review |publisher=Telegraph |date= 11 October 2013|accessdate=2017-05-31}}
City Stories (2013-ongoing) resident at St James Theatre, London, transferred to 59E59 Theaters, New York in May 2016,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/theater/review-writing-to-god-is-one-leap-of-faith-in-city-stories.html|title=Review: Writing to God Is One Leap of Faith in 'City Stories'|last=Gates|first=Anita|date=2016-05-17|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-07-12}} directed by James Phillips{{Cite web|url=http://www.stjamestheatre.co.uk/studio/city-stories-5/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141225191815/http://www.stjamestheatre.co.uk/studio/city-stories-5/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=25 December 2014|title=Stjamestheatre.co.uk}}
The White Whale (2014) premiered in Leeds for Slung Low Theatre Company, directed by Alan Lane{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/08/the-white-whale-review-moby-dick|title=The White Whale review – a delightful dystopian twist on Moby-Dick|last=Gardner|first=Lyn|date=8 September 2014|work=The Guardian|accessdate=25 December 2014}}
Camelot: The Shining City (2015) premiering at Sheffield Theatres, directed by Alan Lane{{cite web|url=http://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/event/camelot-the-shining-city-15/ |title=Sheffield Theatres |publisher=Sheffield Theatres |date= |accessdate=2017-05-31}}
McQueen (2015) premiering at St James Theatre, London, transferred to Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London in August 2015, directed by John Caird{{cite news|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2015/02/12/alexander-mcqueen-play-london-st-james-theatre-2015|title=Alexander McQueen: The Play|last=Milligan|first=Lauren|date=12 February 2015|work=Vogue|accessdate=14 February 2015}}
Flood (2017) premiering as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017, directed by Alan Lane{{cite web|url=http://flood.hull2017.co.uk/ |title=FLOOD |publisher=Flood.hull2017.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-05-31}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/01/flood-woman-overboard-hull-unveils-its-spectacular-floating-city-show|title=Woman overboard! Hull unveils its spectacular floating city show|work=The Guardian|accessdate=2017-03-01}}

Other work

If We Dead Awaken (2012), TV drama for Coming Up, Channel 4, directed by Luke McManus{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/coming-up/videos/all/coming-up-if-we-dead-awaken |title=Coming up - Videos - Coming up: If We Dead Awaken - Channel 4 |accessdate=2014-12-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225195625/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/coming-up/videos/all/coming-up-if-we-dead-awaken |archivedate=2014-12-25 }}
Nicosia: The Last Dividing Line (2013), book of documentary photography, published by En Tipis (Nicosia, Cyprus){{cite web|url=http://www.japancamerahunter.com/2014/05/get-featured-james-phillips/ |title=Get Featured - James Phillips |publisher=Japan Camera Hunter |date= 25 May 2014|accessdate=2017-05-31}}

References

External links

[http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/14732/pair-collect-whiting-award-for-original-stage The Stage article about James Phillips winning John Whiting Award]
[http://www.citystories.co.uk/ City Stories website]
[http://www.jamesphillips.net/ Photography]
[http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/james-phillips/ Bloomsbury Publishing author page]

Category:21st-century British dramatists and playwrights

Category:1977 births

Category:Living people

Category:British male dramatists and playwrights

Category:Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford

Category:21st-century British male writers