Jim Cartwright
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Jim Cartwright is an English dramatist, born at Farnworth
Farnworth
Farnworth is within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is located southeast of Bolton, 6 miles south-west of Bury , and northwest of Manchester....

, Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

, England
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. Cartwright's first play, Road
Road (play)
Road is the first play written by Jim Cartwright, and was first produced in 1986.The play explores the lives of the people in a deprived, working class area of Lancashire during the government of Margaret Thatcher, a time of high unemployment in the north of England...

, won a number of awards before being adapted for TV and broadcast by the BBC
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.

His Bed was performed at the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
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 and directed by Julia Bardsley.

Plays

  • 1986 Road
    Road (play)
    Road is the first play written by Jim Cartwright, and was first produced in 1986.The play explores the lives of the people in a deprived, working class area of Lancashire during the government of Margaret Thatcher, a time of high unemployment in the north of England...

     - Winner of: George Devine Award; Plays and Players Award; Drama Magazine Award; Samuel Beckett
    Samuel Beckett
    Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...

     Award
  • 1988 Bed
  • 1989 Two, originally named To - Winner of: Manchester Evening News
    Manchester Evening News
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     Theatre Award for Best New Play
  • 1990 Baths
  • 1991 Eight Miles High
  • 1992 The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
    The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
    The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a 1992 play written by English dramatist Jim Cartwright. Sam Mendes directed stars Jane Horrocks and Alison Steadman at the Royal National Theatre before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End....

    - Winner of: Evening Standard
    Evening Standard
    The Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...

     Award for Best Comedy of the Year; Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy
  • 1994 Stone Free (renaming of Eight Miles High) Nominated for The Theater Management Association Best Musical Award.
  • 1996 I Licked A Slag's Deodorant - Nominated for Critics Circle Award.
  • 1999 Prize Night
  • 2000 Hard Fruit

Films

  • Road (1987) Winner of Golden Nymph Award
  • Bed (1995)
  • Vroom (1988) Chosen as Centre Piece at the London Film Fstival
  • Strumpet (2001)
  • Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
    Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise
    Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise, is one of two TV films directed by Danny Boyle in 2001; the other was Strumpet. A satire on door-to-door salesmen, it features Timothy Spall and Michael Begley in the lead roles.-Cast members:*Katy Cavanagh...

    (2001)
  • Johnny Shakespeare(2008) BBC 1. Winner of two Royal television Society awards. His novel, Supermarket Supermodel, was published in 2008.

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