Stephen Wyatt

Wyatt was raised in Ealing, West London.{{cite web |last=Wyatt |first=Stephen |title=About Stephen |url=http://www.stephenwyatt.co.uk/about-stephen/ |work=www.stephenwyatt.co.uk |year=2010 |accessdate=1 September 2011}} He was educated at Latymer Upper School and then Clare College, Cambridge. After a brief spell as lecturer in Drama at Glasgow University, he began his career as a freelance playwright in 1975 as writer/researcher with the Belgrade Theatre Coventry in Education team.

Full listings of his work can be found on his website www.stephenwyatt.co.uk.

His subsequent young people's theatre work includes The Magic Cabbage (Unicorn Theatre, 1978), Monster (York Theatre Royal, 1979) and The Witch of Wapping (Half Moon, 1980).{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

In 1982 and 1983, he was Resident Writer with the Bubble Theatre for whom he wrote Glitterballs and The Rogue's Progress.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

His other theatre work includes After Shave (Apollo Theatre, 1978), R.I.P Maria Callas (Edinburgh Festival Fringe / Hen and Chickens, 1992), A Working Woman - from Émile Zola’s L'Assommoir (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 1992), Pick Yourself Up (Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, 2011), A Victorian Mikado (Krazy Kat Theatre, 2011), The Standard Bearer (Waterloo East Theatre, London / Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre, Los Angeles, 2014), The Devil in the Belfry - libretto after a scenario by Claude Debussy (Gottingen 2013), and Told Look Younger (Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 2015).{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

He also collaborated with Jeff Clarke on The Burglar's Opera for Opera della Luna (2004) "stolen from an idea by W. S. Gilbert with music nicked from Sir Arthur Sullivan" and with the Weaver Dance Company on The Loves of Mars and Venus and The Loves of Pygmalion.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

His new comedy Two Cigarettes in the Dark starring Penelope Keith and directed by Alan Strachan opens at the Chichester Festival Theatre in February 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news/two-cigarettes-in-the-dark-uk-tour-starring-dame-penelope-keith/|title=Two Cigarettes in the Dark UK Tour starring Dame Penelope Keith|date=31 August 2021}}

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Wyatt's first work for television was Claws, filmed by the BBC in 1987, starring Simon Jones and Brenda Blethyn. He was then commissioned by Andrew Cartmel to write two scripts for the science-fiction series Doctor Who, which were Paradise Towers and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, both starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. His other television credits include scripts for The House of Eliott and Casualty.

In 2020 Big Finish brought out The Psychic Circus, Stephen's audio drama prequel to The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

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He has worked for BBC Radio since 1985 as both an adapter and an original playwright.

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• Sketches by Boz (1998–1999)
• The Old Wives' Tale (2003)
• Gilbert without Sullivan (2003–2004)
• Vanity Fair (2004)
• Oblomov (2005)
• Tom Jones (2007)
• The Talented Mr Ripley (2009)
• Alice Through the Looking Glass (2012)
• The Divine Comedy (2014)

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• Fairest Isle (1995, Sony Award Winner)
• Gray's Elegy (2000)
• Party Animal (2003)
• Dr Brighton and Mr Harding (2006)
• Memorials to the Missing (2007)
• Gerontius (2011)
• Finlandia (2015)
• The Psychic Circus (Big Finish 2020)
• The Seven Ages of Woman (2021)
• Breaking the Rules: A House Called Insanity (2024){{Cite web |title=Breaking the Rules - A House Called Insanity - BBC Sounds |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021h4c |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-GB}}

• Three plays by Pinero - Introduced by Stephen Wyatt (Methuen, 1985){{Cite web |last=bloomsbury.com |title=Pinero: Three Plays |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pinero-three-plays-9780413572905/ |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=Bloomsbury |language=en}}
• Paradise Towers (Target Books, 1988){{Cite web |title=Doctor Who |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/1481254-doctor-who-paradise-towers-target-doctor-who-library-no-134 |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=www.goodreads.com}}
• The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (Target Books, 1989){{Cite web |title=Doctor Who |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/1374833-doctor-who-the-greatest-show-in-the-galaxy-target-doctor-who-library |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=www.goodreads.com}}
• Memorials to the Missing (London, 2007){{Cite web |title=Memorials to the Missing |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/19452640-memorials-to-the-missing |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• R.I.P, Maria Callas and other monologues for stage and radio (London, 2007){{Cite web |title=R.I.P. Maria Callas |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/19452639-r-i-p-maria-callas |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=www.goodreads.com}}
• Gilbert without Sullivan (London, 2007){{Cite web |title=Gilbert Without Sullivan |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/5016268-gilbert-without-sullivan |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• L'Assommoir (London, 2007){{Cite web |title=L'Assommoir |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/3807552-l-assommoir |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• The Speculator (London, 2009){{Cite web |title=The Speculator |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/14835947-the-speculator |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• So You Want To Write Radio Drama? with Claire Grove (Nick Hern Books, 2013){{Cite web |title=So You Want to Write Radio Drama? |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/26177310-so-you-want-to-write-radio-drama |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=www.goodreads.com}}
• The World and His Wife: A true story told by two unreliable narrators (Book Guild 2019){{Cite web |title=The World and His Wife: A true story told by two unreli… |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/71694077-the-world-and-his-wife |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• Hurst on Film with Caitlin Smith (Quartertoten 2021)
• 'The Secret Life of Caretaker Number 112 Stroke 9 Subsection 7' in Build High for Happiness (Obverse Books 2021)
• The Wallscrawler and Other Stories (Obverse Books 2022){{Cite web |title=The Wallscrawler and Other Stories – Stephen Wyatt |url=https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/the-wallscrawler-and-other-stories-stephen-wyatt/ |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=Obverse Books |language=en-GB}}

His play Memorials to the Missing (2007) won the Tinniswood Award for best original radio script of 2007 and Silver in the Best Drama category of the 2008 Sony Radio Academy Awards.

His radio drama Gerontius (2010) won the 2011 Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Drama Script.{{cite web |last=Writers' Guild of Great Britain |title=Audio Drama Award winners announced |url=http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/radio/263-audio-drama-award-winners |work=www.writersguild.org.uk |year=2012 |access-date=30 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205071604/http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/radio/263-audio-drama-award-winners |archive-date=5 February 2012 |df=dmy-all }}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.stephenwyatt.co.uk Official Website]
• https://writersguild.org.uk/find-a-writer/
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160709172721/http://www.bestbritishtv.com/?p=335 Stephen Wyatt Interview at Best British TV]}}
• [https://archive.today/20121223013604/http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/authors/wyat/wyatt.htm Biography of Stephen Wyatt at On Target]
• {{IMDb name|0943584}}
• {{ISFDB name|id=3705|name=Stephen Wyatt}}
• [http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/swyatt.html 'Diversity' radio play listing: Stephen Wyatt]

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