Chloë Moss (born 1976 in

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) is an English

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and screenwriter.

Early life

Moss grew up in

and attended

Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester Metropolitan University is located in the centre of Manchester, England. The university has over 40,000 students and over 4,000 members of staff. It is home to four faculties (Arts and Humanities, Business and Law, Health and Educat ...

, where she studied film. She joined the

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programme and wrote her first professional play, ''

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''.

Career

She soon became a writer-in-residence at the Bush and is under commission to the

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Royal Exchange, the

, Paines Plough, Liverpool Everyman, and

Clean Break (theatre company) Clean Break is a feminist theatre company started in 1979 by Jenny Hicks and Jackie Holborough, while inmates of HMP Askham Grange. They expanded the prison's annual Christmas show into Efemera, a two-hour show about prison life. It was later perfo ...

. Other work includes '' How Love is Spelt'', which opened at the Bush Theatre London in November 2004 and Off-Broadway in August 2005; ''

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'' (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, November 2005, transferring to the Bush in February 2006); and '' The Way Home'' (Liverpool Everyman, November 2006). ''

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''—a collaborative piece written with four other playwrights ( April De Angelis, Laura Wade, Stella Feehily, and Tanika Gupta)—premièred at The Royal Court in December 2006. ''

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'' played at the Soho theatre in 2008. A commission from Clean Break (directed by Lucy Morrison), the play went on to a subsequent tour of women's prisons around the UK. ''The Gatekeeper'' premiered at the

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in February 2012. Moss has also worked in television, writing for series such as '' The Smoke'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Awards

Moss won the Susan Smith Blackburn Playwriting Prize in 2009 for her play ''

''.

Works

* ''

'' (2002) * '' How Love is Spelt'', (2004) * ''

'' (2005) * '' The Way Home (play)'' (2006) * ''

'' (2006) * ''Indigo'' (2007) * ''A Model Girl'' (2007) * ''

'' (2008) * ''The Gatekeeper'' (2012)

References

External links

*
"Chatting with Chloe Moss", ''Upstaged'', David Cote, 7 May 2009
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moss, Chloe 21st-century British women writers English dramatists and playwrights English screenwriters 1976 births Living people Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University British women screenwriters British women television writers