Jessica Dromgoole#Listen to the Words
{{Short description|British director (active 1988– )}}
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Jessica Dromgoole is a British director of contemporary theatre and radio-plays, as well as a former Artistic Director of the Finborough Theatre from 1988 to 1991. In 1991 she became New Writing Co-ordinator for BBC Drama, Entertainment and Children's programmes.
Early life
Dromgoole is the daughter of schoolteacher Jenny Davis and Patrick Dromgoole, a former managing director of Harlech Television. Dromgoole is the older sister of Dominic Dromgoole and Sean Dromgoole.{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jUdUZ67HCgC&pg=PA293 | pages= 293–4| title= Will & Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life | first= Dominic| last= Dromgoole| authorlink= Dominic Dromgoole | publisher= Pegasus Books | year=2007 | isbn= 978-1933648460 | access-date=11 March 2013| chapter= Acknowledgments | quote= My sister Jessica was extremely helpful, as she always is, with matters of tone, with extra material and with a large helping of extra jokes.}}{{Dead link|date=March 2022}}
Selected awards
Radio plays
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! colspan=6 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Radio plays directed by Jessica Dromgoole |
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! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Date first broadcast ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Play ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Author ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Cast ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Synopsis ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Station |
| id="The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body"
| 31 March 2007 | The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007gbcr BBC – The Wire – The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body]{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/downloads/scripts/incomplete_recorded_works.pdf |title=The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body – A radio play by Ed Hime (script) |access-date=21 December 2019 |archive-date=24 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124132436/http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/downloads/scripts/incomplete_recorded_works.pdf |url-status=dead }} | Ed Hime | Khalid Abdalla, Ameet Chana, Elaine Lordan, Saikat Ahamed, John Dougall, Mark Straker, Anthony Glennon and Jasmine Callan | Ed Hime's blackly comic fictional documentary combines a collage of deliberate recordings, from police surveillance tapes to an unfinished installation piece on pigeons, as it follows Babak Beyrouti, famous Iranian sound recordist and agoraphobic, as he braves London in his quest for lost love. | BBC Radio 3 The Wire[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006ts0g BBC – The Wire] |
| id="Listen to the Words"
| 18 June 2008 | Listen to the Words[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c197q BBC – Afternoon Play – Listen to the Words] | Ed Hime | Joe Dempsie, Lizzie Watts, Sam Crane, Lisa Stevenson, Nyasha Hatendi, Helen Longworth, Ben Crowe, John Rowe, Liz Sutherland, Stephen Critchlow and Dan Starkey | Tim has a problem with empathy, and justifies tapping fellow student Sophie's phone as the only way to understand her. When it all goes wrong, he books the media room of the secure unit where he is being held and creates a broadcast for his college radio station. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qrzz BBC – Afternoon Play] |
| id="The Shooting Party"
| 2 August 2010 – 6 August 2010 | The Shooting Party[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6ft2 BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Shooting Party] | Isabel Colegate dramatised by D J Britton | Olivia Colman, Ellie Kendrick, Sam Dale, Jaimi Barbakoff, Michael Shelford, Christine Kavanagh, Joshua Swinney, Sean Baker, Sally Orrock, Jude Akuwudike and David Seddon | Autumn 1913; a shooting party takes place on an Oxfordshire country estate. An error of judgement results in a death. | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy2s BBC – Woman's Hour Drama] |
| id="All the Blood in My Veins"
| 18 November 2010 | All the Blood in My Veins[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vy37d BBC – Afternoon Play – All the Blood in My Veins] | Katie Hims | Elaine Lordan, Shannon Tarbet, Tyger Drew-Honey, Katie Angelou, Alfie Browne-Sykes, Jude Akuwidike, Lloyd Thomas, Deeivya Meir and Shirena Watt | Viola, a 14-year-old girl, has responsibilities beyond her age. |
| id="Lost Property: The Wrong Label"
| 3 May 2011 | Lost Property: The Wrong Label[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010t6h0 BBC – Afternoon Play – Lost Property: The Wrong Label] | Katie Hims | Rosie Cavaliero, Alex Tregear, Katie Angelou, Daniel Cooper, Daniel Rabin, Stuart McLoughlin, Bethan Walker, Sally Orrock, Sean Baker and Joanna Monro | London, 1941, and Alice knows that to stop your children from being evacuated is tantamount to siding with Hitler. |
| id="Lost Property: The Year My Mother Went Missing"
| 10 May 2011 | Lost Property: The Year My Mother Went Missing[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010xzzm BBC – Afternoon Play – Lost Property: The Year My Mother Went Missing] | Katie Hims | Rosie Cavaliero, Shannon Flynn, Ceallach Spellman, Elliot Griffiths, Ralph Ineson, Daniel Rabin, Jane Whittenshaw, Sally Orrock, Stuart McLoughlin and Sean Baker | It's 1979, and it's not the first time that Ruthie's mother Queenie has gone missing, but usually she leaves a note. |
| id="Lost Property: A Telegram from the Queen"
| 17 May 2011 | Lost Property: A Telegram from the Queen[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112flb BBC – Afternoon Play – Lost Property: A Telegram from the Queen] | Katie Hims | Rosie Cavaliero, Edna Doré, Gary Beadle, Daniel Rabin, Stuart McLoughlin, Sean Baker, Jane Whittenshaw, Alex Tregear, Joanna Monro and Sally Orrock | It's 2011, and, as Alice's 100th birthday present, Ruthie sets out to put her family back together again. The final play in Katie Hims' trilogy of heartbreak and redemption. |
| id="A Tale of Two Cities"
| 26 December 2011 – 30 December 2011 | A Tale of Two CitiesDirected by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018g3n8 BBC – Afternoon Play – A Tale of Two Cities] | Charles Dickens dramatised in five parts by Mike Walker | Robert Lindsay, Jonathan Coy, Alison Steadman, Karl Johnson, Lydia Wilson, Andrew Scott, Paul Ready, James Lailey, Tracy Wiles, Simon Bubb, Carl Prekopp, Adjoa Andoh, Daniel Cooper, Clive Merrison, Gerard McDermott, Paul Moriarty, Christopher Webster, Adam Billington, Rikki Lawton and Alex Rivers | In London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, these five episodes show the plight of the French people under the brutal oppression of the aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality of the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the years immediately following. |
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;Sources
- [http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/jessica-dromgoole.html Jessica Dromgoole's radio play listing] at Diversity (suttonelms.org.uk)
- [http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/candc/d/dr/dromgoole_jessica.html Jessica Dromgoole's radio play listing] at RadioListings
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