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Playwright Anita Sullivan Radio

"All the words and action frame one still, quiet moment where

everything changes."

Anita Sullivan
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NEXT BROADCAST: THE MOSQUITO

 Radio 4 drama. A hapless energy minister dodges activists and lobbyists at a climate conference in Paris. An access-all-areas mosquito has an agenda of her own.  The project was supported by OKRE  (Wellcome Trust),  and subject experts Omnia El Omrani MD (COP28 Health Envoy), and Andy Morse FRSA (Liverpool University).​ Broadcast/ BBC Sounds November 12th 2024, to coincide with COP29 Azerbaijan.

Read the blog here.

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COMING SOON: GIRL OF THE SEA OF CORTEZ

Peter Benchley is the author of Jaws, but he was also a marine conservationist and wrote a beautiful eco-warrior, coming-of age story. I read Girl of the Sea of Cortez when I was 10 and it's stayed with me across decades. Delighted to be adapting it for BBC Radio 4. In production with Afonica,  broadcast / BBC Sounds December 8th 2024. Features an Opening Lines pre-interview with me and John Yorke about the novel.​

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IN 6O PLAYS

I'm an award-winning writer of radio and theatre plays, short-stories, podcasts and video screenplays. All of my 60+ scripts have been staged or broadcast. I'm also a digital storyteller, creating interactive narratives for VR and gamified worlds.

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Writing is exploration. Experience the world as an octopus, a bee, a fox hunter, a musician from Diego Garcia, a companion-robot or a 130 year old woman. Enter a carnivorous beach-hut, swim The English Channel or orbit Earth with Gagarin.

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My Radio 4 plays are often recorded on location, my theatre work site-specific. I like to work collaboratively, blending script, documentary and improvisation.

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I've given MA Creative Writing seminars and run courses at the Bishopsgate Institute.

p.s I love my job!

Dramatic audio experience, falling through space

IN DEVELOPMENT​

Freewheeler's  The Other Library. Twenty stories of disability in a touring multimedia installation.

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A book for publication. Behind a big NDA.

 

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RECENT PROJECTS

SILOS a future-fiction serial where national-service hibernation is used to limit climate impact. A stasis lawyer can't let it rest.  April 2024

 

Interview for Opening Lines  'Heart of Darkness' as a prequal to the re-broadcast of my adaptation. March 2024

 

Model Village. Proud to be write New Perspective's 50th year touring show. A model village rebels! November 2023

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End of Transmission. Award winning Audio drama, history of HIV told from the point of view of the virus. Multi award-winning. New Society of Authors video interview.

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A GRAY SPACE

I'm a core collaborator on a website and creative community inspired by Scottish novelist, playwright and artist Alasdair Gray.

 

It celebrates his work and ethos by encouraging creative contributions and collaborations, with the aim of making people and things better. An ongoing project with Alasdair's niece Kat Rolley, launched at the International Alasdair Gray Conference in June 2022. To view a trailer for one of our projects, press play >

LISTEN NOW...

Silos five part series  A future-fiction where hibernation is used to adapt to climate change
 
End of Transmission Jude confronts her HIV virus about past secrets. Multi awards.

Two on a Tower Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's astronomy novel

Heart of Darkness  Contemporary reimagining of Conrad's novel

Ring Classic Japanese horror by Koji Suzuki, adapted in binaural sound

The Bee Maker  Honey bees are dying. 'Frequent flyer' syndrome hits the human population 

We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver's novel adapted in 10 parts for Woman's Hour.

Rock of Eye Three elderly tailors make a suit for a very dangerous customer.

Mandrake  A dispute over a hedge, a 100 year old woman and a tree with a voice.
 

Full Blown A woman with a life-changing diagnosis.  Finalist for Imisson Award

The Octopus  Drama with a octopus as the lead character.  Nominated for Radio Drama award.

Try typing 'Anita Sullivan' into YouTube. People put my plays up, BBC takes them down. You never know what you might find. You'll also find an American poet and piano tuner with the same name, who isn't me. And a racehorse. Enjoy! 

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