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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| The Beacon | Adaptation of Susan Hill's novel about a misery memoir. To be broadcast in five parts in March 2010. |
| Torchwood: Asylum | Radio 4 Afternoon Play. BBC Wales Production. Radio prequal to TV series. Broadcast 2nd July 2009. |
| Bigtop Underworld | Music-theatre piece written for & with 60 sight/ hearing/ mobility impaired peformers. To be staged July 2009. |
| Homesick | Radio 4 Afternoon Play. Sweet Talk Productions. Broadcast March 11th 2009. |
| Mandrake | Radio 4 Afternoon Play. Sweet Talk Productions. Broadcast 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 have recently finished writing a commission for Theatre Royal Plymouth (about the hunting ban). I have been commissioned to adapt Susan Hill's novel 'The Beacon' for Radio 4 Women's Hour. I am also working on an Afternoon Play commission called 'Selfless' and a short reading in the Asimov 'Why, Robot' 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. 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-eight years old. I live in Sussex with artist Ben Fearnside, an Irish Jack Russell, a delinquent Chihuahua and twenty-nine over-sexed fish.
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