Anita Sullivan
Award winning playwright"...an original talent to be watched ...would shame Ken Russell..."
Anita SullivanAward winning playwright"...an original talent to be watched ...would shame Ken Russell..." |
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| Mandrake | Radio 4 Afternoon Play. Sweet Talk Productions. To be broadcast 21st October 2008. |
| The Archivist | Music-theatre piece written for & with 60 sight/ hearing/ mobility impaired peformers. Staged July 2008. |
| Earthrise | Devised with Freewheeler's Theatre Co. Leatherhead Festival May 2008. Winner of Richard Houghton Award. |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | Adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel about a high-school shooting. Broadcast in ten parts in January 2008. |
| The Phantom Cosmonaut | Radio 4 reading, part of 'Sputnik' series. Broadcast October 2007. |
| The Key | Music-theatre piece written for & with 60 sight/ hearing/ mobility impaired peformers. Staged July 2007. |
| Envy | Radio 4 Afternoon Play. Sweet Talk Productions. Broadcast March 2007. |
| Forest | Music-theatre piece written for and with 40 sight/ hearing/ mobility impaired performers. Staged July 2006. |
| Consuming Desires | Radio 4 Woman's Hour play. Starred Frances Barber. Broadcast May 2006. |
| Pricked | Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2005, Assembly Rooms. Tour of South-West 2006. |
| Exiled from Paradise | Radio 4 afternoon play about the people of Diego Garcia. Winner of RIMA award. Broadcast June 2005. |
| Thin Walls | One-act stage-play for two actresses about inspired by 'The Yellow Wallpaper'. Staged April 2005. |
| The Owl Service | Adaptation of Alan Garner's classic '60's supernatural novel for stage. (Co-written with David Prescott). July 2004. |
| Full Blown | Radio 4 Friday Play for World AIDS Day. Starred Claire Skinner. Shortlisted for Imision Award. November 2003. |
| Freakshow | Devised show involving music and puppetry. |
| Chariot of Light | Large-scale site specific promenade community show. |
| Islands | Epic promenade adventure based on Shakespeare's 'Pericles'. |
| Monumental | Political love-story. A lost teenager meets Russian poet Mayakovsky and Yuri Gagarin. Staged in promenade. |
| Dangerous Curiosities | Adaptation of three ghost-stories by M.R. James for stage. |
| The Prince and the Pilot | Adaptation of Saint-Exupery's 'The Little Prince' for stage. |
| Streetplays | Historical physical-theatre for outdoor performance. |
| Solstice | Poetic drama about Eve and Judas. RSC commission. |
| Bored Reckless | Dark film comedy about love and fantasy. Shortlisted for Channel Four Film Challenge. |
| Clearance (or Audience with Queen) | Political fairy-tale set in Scottish Borders. Four theatre productions staged. |
| Last Supper of Doctor Faustus | Raunchy cabaret interpretation of Marlowe's story. Edinburgh Festival Scotsman Fringe First winner. |
| Hildegard | Poetic drama about Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Staged in Edinburgh Festival Fringe. |
| Crashing | Drama about domestic violence. |
| Just Whores | Realistic drama about the sex industry. Shortlisted for Questors Theatre award. |
| Short Plays | Five short theatre scripts for small casts. |
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I am currently working on a commission for Theatre Royal Plymouth (about the hunting ban). This will have it's first performance at the Ustinov Theatre Bath in November 2008. I have just finished recording 'Mandrake' a BBC Radio 4 afternoon play commission. A second afternoon play 'Homesick' will be broadcast in December/ January as part of a science-fiction series.
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My work is very varied but typically has a sociopolitical awareness and explores the connection between the past and the present. This is sometimes expressed naturalistically, sometimes more poetically or visually, but my work always embraces the multimedia nature of drama. I have a keen interest in community based projects and site specific shows. I often write for young people.
All of my 28 plays (except 'Islands') have been staged/ broadcast, many with repeat productions and tours. Several have won awards. I've had drama broadcast on BBC Radio 4. I've been commissioned by theatre companies as diverse as the Royal Shakespeare Company, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Pop-Up children's theatre, Eastern Angles and Borderline. I've taken part in workshop projects with the Performing Arts Lab, The Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre, TAG theatre company, Channel Four Film Challenge, Linea Trasversale, Welfare State International and The Working Party. I also ran my own company Radge Productions which produced three plays, two short films and co-ran a Fringe venue.
I am thirty-seven years old. I live in Brighton with artist Ben Fearnside, an Irish Jack Russell puppy and twenty-nine over-sexed fish.
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