Dan Rebellato
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Dan Rebellato is an English dramatist and academic born in South London
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He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London
and has written extensively for radio and the stage. He has twice been nominated for a Sony Award, and writes regularly for The Guardian
Theatre Blog.
South London
South London is the southern part of London, England, United Kingdom.According to the 2011 official Boundary Commission for England definition, South London includes the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Southwark, Sutton and...
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He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries...
and has written extensively for radio and the stage. He has twice been nominated for a Sony Award, and writes regularly for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
Theatre Blog.
Stage Plays
- Chekhov in Hell. 4-20 November 2010 at the Drum at the Theatre Royal, PlymouthTheatre Royal, PlymouthThe Theatre Royal in Plymouth, Devon, England is "the largest and best attended regional producing theatre in the UK and the leading promoter of theatre in the south west", according to Arts Council England...
, before transferring to the Soho TheatreSoho TheatreSoho Theatre is a theatre in the eponymous Soho district of the City of Westminster. It presents new works of theatre, together with comedy and cabaret....
, London 20 April-14 May 2011 - Beachy Head. Written with Emma Jowett and Lewis Hetherington. Analogue: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009; National Tour, 2011.
- Static. 22 April-10 May 2008 at the Soho TheatreSoho TheatreSoho Theatre is a theatre in the eponymous Soho district of the City of Westminster. It presents new works of theatre, together with comedy and cabaret....
, London - Theatremorphosis. Part of the CCA, Glasgow's Stage Fright event 4 April-23 May 2009.
- Mile End. Analogue: Edinburgh Festival, 2007. International tour, 2007. Southwark Playhouse, 2008.
- Here's What I Did With My Body One Day. Lightwork: Pleasance Theatre, London. National Tour, 2006.
Radio Plays and Adaptations
- My Life is a Series of People Saying Goodbye. BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4BBC 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...
, April 2011) - And So Say All of Us. Written with Linda McLean and Duncan Macmillan. (First broadcast on BBC Radio 3BBC Radio 3BBC 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...
on 2 May 2010) - Girlfriend in a ComaGirlfriend in a ComaGirlfriend in a Coma refers to:* "Girlfriend in a Coma " by The Smiths, issued as a single in August 1987 and subsequently featured on the album Strangeways, Here We Come...
. Adaptation of a Douglas CouplandDouglas CouplandDouglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...
novel by the same name. BBC Radio 3BBC Radio 3BBC 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...
, February 2008. - Cavalry. BBC Radio 4, March 2008.
- Dead Souls. Adaptation of novel by Nikolai GogolNikolai GogolNikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
. BBC Radio 4, April 2006. - The Midwich Cuckoos. Adaptation of novel by John WyndhamJohn WyndhamJohn Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes...
. BBC Radio 4, November 2003. [Released as a BBC Audiobook 2007]
Notable Publications
- 1956 and all That, London: RoutledgeRoutledgeRoutledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge...
, 1999. - Static, London: Oberon BooksOberon BooksOberon Books is an independent publisher which specialises in drama and the performing arts. Whilst the majority of Oberon's catalogue is made up of play texts, in recent years it has begun to publish theatrical biographies as well as books on ballet, opera, illustration, photography and...
, 2008. - Theatre & Globalization, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009.
- Contemporary European Theatre Directors, co-edited with Maria M. Delgado, London: RoutledgeRoutledgeRoutledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge...
, 2010. - Chekhov in Hell, London: Oberon, 2010 (rev. ed. 2011).
- Beachy Head, co-written with Emma Jowett and Lewis Hetherington. London: Oberon, 2011.