| Personal Details | Based: | Wilmslow, Cheshire | Work Sought: All enquiries to Nicky Lund, David Higham Associates, 5-8 Lower John Street, Golden Square, London W1R 4HA
email: DHA@davidhigham.co.uk | Theatrical Experience/Training Selected work (up to 2005)
John Chambers' stage plays include: Stiff Stuff; Shouting at the Radio; Raw Material; Albert Finney Doesn't Live Here Any More; Robin Hood - the Raven's Revenge - all at the Library Theatre Company, where he was Arts Council Resident Dramatist; Two Wheel Tricycle (Contact Theatre); Silver Lining (Oldham Coliseum); Yoiks Oiks (Bolton Octagon); The Marigold Trilogy (Real Life Theatre. M.E.N. Best Fringe Award); Balling the Blues (One Step); and most recently (Summer '04) Becks and Kecks (Northern Quarter).
John has written three epics for Lancaster Dukes Promenade Seasons - Tales of King Arthur, Jungle Book and The Three Musketeers, and several pieces for/with young people at Manchester Youth Theatre, where he was also resident writer.
Co-written theatre work includes: Scandals - The Life and Liver o Frank Randall with Keith Clifford (which John also directed); Crazy People with Marvin Close (LTC); I'm Marrying Ryan Giggs (Robbie Fowler in Liverpool!) with Dave Simpson (Liverpool Playhouse, Manchester Opera House and national tour); Koff with Brian Morgan (One Step).
He has written something like 100 hours of tele: The Bill; Emmerdale (including 10 hour-long specials and working on it during BAFTA best Soap Year 2001); Eastenders; Runaway Bay; 14 episodes of Children's Ward (Granada, including RTS Best Children's Drama Series season); 3 fifteen minute films for BBC Education's Turning Points (which won BAFTA and RTS awards); Away From Home, Daffodils Make Me Sneeze and Grease Lightning - 30 minute plays for BBC2. |
