Hi there!
Welcome to my super exciting Ideastap profile.
If plays are your thing then do have a glance through my portfolio at some of the ones what I wrote. I've also listed them below along with some details and reviews so you can see where and when I've put them on and what people had to say about them (obviously I haven't included many negative comments, this is my page after all and I have Trotskied them out of history).
I am also one half of Misshapen Theatre with Lucy Jackson, and together with Claire Turner we curate and produce Blast Off! at the Soho Theatre - the galaxy's only science fiction theatre night. In the last year we've put on nearly twenty new plays by writers such as Kenny Emson, Gabriel Bisset-Smith, Melissa Bubnic, Sara Pascoe, Tom Morton-Smith and Ali McDowall.
Last year I was part of the writing team for Cartoon Network's BAFTA award winning show The Amazing World of Gumball, and my script Meanwhile, Ten Years Ago - which I wrote with Suzi Ruffell - was shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum. But if that sounds impressive I also worked on The Now Show for an episode and didn't have a single joke used, had two pitches rejected by Radio 4 because the commissioner 'couldn't see what was even supposed to be funny', and was fired from HMV for being really bad at working at HMV. So y'know, context.
Anyway, if you'd like something written, want to perform something I've already written, or just fancy getting in touch then please do, the email is jonathan.brittain (@) gmail.com.
Take care and drive safely!
Jon
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‘There has been a lot of advance talk about Jonathan Brittain’s play [The Wake], which won the Judges’ Award for Comedy in last year’s National Student Drama Festival. The talk has been worth it – as has the wait, since this is a sizzling piece of comic theatre.’
The Stage, August 2010
Resident Writer at Theatre503 on the 503Five scheme 2012-2013
Selected for Channel 4's 4Screenwriting Course 2012
Winner: Time Warner Ignite 2 - Old Vic New Voices 2010
Winner: Judges Award for Comedy, National Student Drama Festival 2009
Shortlisted: BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Form 2012
Shortlisted: Adrienne Benham Award 2011
Shortlisted: BBC Writersroom 10
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Blast Off 1, 2 and 3 (Curator/Writer/Director/Producer)
Theatre503 (1) and Soho Theatre (2 and 3), London 2012
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Shhhh...
Theatre503, London 2012
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The Sexual Awakening of Peter Mayo
The Pleasance Beside, Edinburgh 2011
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Phillipa and Will are Now in a Relationship
The Pleasance Attic, Edinburgh 2011
The Three and Ten, Brighton 2011
New Diorama, London 2010
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The Spies in Room 502
Latitude, Suffolk 2011
Waterloo East, London 2011
(Winner: Time Warner Ignite 2)
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The Wake
Embrace Arts, Leicester 2011
New Diorama, London 2010
Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh 2010
National Student Drama Festival, 2009
Scarborough
(Winner: Judges Award for Comedy)
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The Veteran (translation)
National Theatre Studio, London 2010
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The Aim of the Game (part of 24 Hour Plays: OVNV 2010)
The Old Vic, London 2010
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Everybody’s Doing It
RADA, London 2010
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The Small Hours
Soho Theatre, London (Reading) 2010
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Training
2009-2010
MA Writing for Performance (Distinction)
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
2005-2008
BA Hons Drama (1st Class)
University of East Anglia
Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ
Represented by
Ben Hall & Lily Williams for Curtis Brown
Haymarket House, 28-29 Haymarket, London SW1 4SP
ben@curtisbrown.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7393 4452
lily@curtisbrown.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7393 4452
