Chloe Moss
Encyclopedia
Life
Ms. Moss grew up in LiverpoolLiverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
and attended Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is a university in North West England. Its headquarters and central campus is in the city of Manchester, but there are outlying facilities in the county of Cheshire. It is the third largest university in the United Kingdom in terms of student numbers, behind the...
, where she studied film. She joined the Royal Court
Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...
's Young Writers programme and wrote her first professional play, A Day In Dull Armour. She soon became a writer-in-residence at the Bush
Bush Theatre
The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 above The Bush public house by Brian McDermott, and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world. An intimate venue renowned for its close-up...
and is under commission to the Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
Royal Exchange, the Royal Court
Royal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...
, 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....
, Liverpool Everyman and Clean Break Theatre Company.
Other work includes How Love is Spelt
How Love is Spelt
How Love is Spelt is a 2005 play written by Chloe Moss.-Production:It was first produced at the Bush Theatre in London and is available in print from Nick Hern Books....
, which opened at the Bush Theatre London in November 2004 and Off-Broadway in August 2005; Christmas Is Miles Away (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, November 2005, transferring to the Bush in February 2006); and The Way Home
The Way Home
The Way Home is an award-winning 2002 film written and directed by Lee Jeong-hyang. It tells the heart-warming story about a grandmother and her city-born grandson who comes to live with her in a rural village...
(Liverpool Everyman, November 2006). Catch—a collaborative piece written with four other playwrights (April De Angelis
April De Angelis
April De Angelis is a British dramatist of part Sicilian descent. She is a graduate of Sussex University who trained at East 15 Acting School....
, Laura Wade
Laura Wade
Laura Wade is a British playwright. Wade grew up in Sheffield, where her father worked for a computer company....
, Stella Feehily
Stella Feehily
Stella Feehily is a London-born Irish playwright and actor. Her plays include "Game" 2003 produced by Fishamble Theatre company-Dublin -published in an anthology of first plays by New Island. ISBN 978-1-84840-020-7...
, and Tanika Gupta
Tanika Gupta
Tanika Gupta, MBE is a British playwright of Bengali origin. Apart from her work for the theatre, she has also written scripts for television.-Background and education:...
)—premièred at The Royal Court in December 2006.
Her most recent play This Wide Night played at the Soho theatre in 2008. A commission from Clean Break (directed by Lucy Morrison), the play went on to a subsequent tour of women's prisons around the UK.
Awards
Moss won the Susan Smith Blackburn Playwriting Prize in 2009 for her play This Wide Night.Works
- A Day In Dull Armour (2002)
- How Love is SpeltHow Love is SpeltHow Love is Spelt is a 2005 play written by Chloe Moss.-Production:It was first produced at the Bush Theatre in London and is available in print from Nick Hern Books....
, (2004) - Christmas Is Miles Away (2005)
- The Way Home (play) (2006)
- Catch (2006)
- Indigo (2007)
- A Model Girl (2007)
- This Wide Night (2008)