Alan Harris
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Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright. His play A Good Night Out in the Valleys launched the new National Theatre Wales in March 2010 and he has worked with theatre companies throughout the United Kingdom.
His most recent work, Manga Sister, a contemporary dance opera, was staged at The Yard, London.
The Journey, an opera for the Welsh National Opera
, was commissioned by the company’s MAX department and staged in June, 2010.
BBC Radio 3
broadcast his play, The Gold Farmer as part of The Wire season in February 2010 and in September, 2011, BBC Radio 4
broadcast The Lighthouse.
Harris was commissioned by Paines Plough
as part of their Come To Where I’m From tour (summer 2010).
His debut stage play, Orange, was commissioned and produced by Sgript Cymru
and he has worked with companies including Pentabus, Hijinx Theatre, Sherman Cymru, Paines Plough
, and The Operating Theatre Company.
A former journalist who was educated at Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive School, Harris has worked with the Welsh National Opera
since 2008 on a range of projects and has also worked with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain as a writing workshop leader and with prisoners at HMP Cardiff on a radio play entitled I Forgot To Tell You, a platinum Koestler award winner.
Harris is also a new writing tutor and mentor at the Sherman Cymru theatre.
He is the winner of a prestigious Creative Wales Award 2010/11 from the Arts Council of Wales
His most recent work, Manga Sister, a contemporary dance opera, was staged at The Yard, London.
The Journey, an opera for the Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera is an opera company founded in Cardiff, Wales in 1943. The WNO tours Wales, the United Kingdom and the rest of the world extensively. Annually, it gives more than 120 performances of eight main stage operas to a combined audience of around 150,000 people...
, was commissioned by the company’s MAX department and staged in June, 2010.
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...
broadcast his play, The Gold Farmer as part of The Wire season in February 2010 and in September, 2011, BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
broadcast The Lighthouse.
Harris was commissioned by Paines Plough
Paines Plough
Paines Plough is a London-based British touring theatre company founded in 1974 by writer David Pownall and director John Adams. They named the company after their favourite pub, the Plough, where they would drink pints of Paines....
as part of their Come To Where I’m From tour (summer 2010).
His debut stage play, Orange, was commissioned and produced by Sgript Cymru
Sgript Cymru
Sgript Cymru is a Welsh theatre company that specialises in new writing in Welsh or English by Welsh and Wales-based playwrights.The company was created in 2000 and is based in the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff...
and he has worked with companies including Pentabus, Hijinx Theatre, Sherman Cymru, Paines Plough
Paines Plough
Paines Plough is a London-based British touring theatre company founded in 1974 by writer David Pownall and director John Adams. They named the company after their favourite pub, the Plough, where they would drink pints of Paines....
, and The Operating Theatre Company.
A former journalist who was educated at Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive School, Harris has worked with the Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera is an opera company founded in Cardiff, Wales in 1943. The WNO tours Wales, the United Kingdom and the rest of the world extensively. Annually, it gives more than 120 performances of eight main stage operas to a combined audience of around 150,000 people...
since 2008 on a range of projects and has also worked with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain as a writing workshop leader and with prisoners at HMP Cardiff on a radio play entitled I Forgot To Tell You, a platinum Koestler award winner.
Harris is also a new writing tutor and mentor at the Sherman Cymru theatre.
He is the winner of a prestigious Creative Wales Award 2010/11 from the Arts Council of Wales
Arts Council of Wales
The Arts Council of Wales is a Welsh Government sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales.Established by Royal Charter in 1946, as the Welsh Arts Council , when it merged with the three Welsh regional arts associations...
Plays
Harris's work includes:- Orange (2006)
- Brute (2007)
- Burberry (2008)
- Miss Brown To You (2009)
- Cardboard Dad (2009)
- The Gold Farmer (radio, 2010)
- The Journey (oratorio, 2010)
- A Good Night Out in the Valleys (2010)
- The Lighthouse (radio, 2011)
- Manga Sister (2011)