Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright.
Career
Has written plays for theatres throughout the United Kingdom, including
Paines Plough and
National Theatre Wales.
He won a Judges’ Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for his play ''How My Light is Spent'' at the
Royal Exchange, Manchester. He also wrote ''The Opportunity of Efficiency'', the first international collaboration for
National Theatre Wales with the
New National Theatre Tokyo. The play was staged at the
New National Theatre Tokyo's The Pit stage in 2013 and was directed by NTW artistic director John McGrath.
In 2011 he set up
liveartshow, a company specialising in new theatre with music with director Martin Constantine and composer Harry Blake. The company staged ''Manga Sister'', a contemporary dance opera, at The Yard, London and the same venue staged a re-telling of ''
Rhinegold'' by the same company in 2012.
Liveartshow also presented ''The Future For Beginners'', a co-production with the
Wales Millennium Centre, at Summerhall at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as The Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, or Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest arts and media festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 dif ...
in 2014 along with a national tour. The production won a Musical Theatre Network Award while at Edinburgh.
International work includes ''Marsha'' at the
Capital Fringe Festival in
Washington DC
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and ''A Scythe of Time'', a collaboration with United States composer Mark Swanson.
He wrote the television drama ''The Left Behind'' for
BBC Three
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/
BBC Studios which won the
BAFTA for Best Single Drama in
2020
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as well as the
Royal Television Society award in the same category.
Radio plays include ''The Gold Farmer'' for
BBC Radio 3
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's The Wire season and plays for
BBC Radio 4
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.
His debut stage play, ''Orange'', was commissioned and produced by
Sgript Cymru
Sgript Cymru was a Welsh theatre company that specialised in new writing in Welsh or English by Welsh and Wales-based playwrights.
The company was created in 2000 and was based in Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. It received its main funding from ...
.
He is the winner of a Creative Wales Award from the
Arts Council of Wales[Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Award winners 2010, http://www.artswales.org.uk/artsinwales/arts-creativity/creative-wales/awards-2010/alan-harris ] and represented by Emily Hickman at The Agency, London.
References
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Welsh dramatists and playwrights
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)