Dan Rebellato (born 1968) is an English dramatist and academic born in

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. He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at

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and has written extensively for radio and the stage. He has twice been nominated for a

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, and writes regularly for ''

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'' Theatre Blog.

Stage plays

*''Here's What I Did With My Body One Day''. Lightwork: Pleasance Theatre, London. National Tour, 2006. *''Mile End''. Analogue: Edinburgh Festival, 2007. International tour, 2007. Southwark Playhouse, 2008. *''Static''. 22 April–10 May 2008 at the Soho Theatre, London *''Theatremorphosis''. Part of the CCA Glasgow's Stage Fright event 4 April–23 May 2009. *''Beachy Head''. Written with Emma Jowett and Lewis Hetherington. Analogue: Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009; National Tour, 2011. *''Chekhov in Hell''. 4–20 November 2010 at the Drum at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, before transferring to the Soho Theatre, London 20 April–14 May 2011

Radio plays and adaptations

*''The Midwich Cuckoos''. Adaptation of novel by

John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (; 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his name ...

. BBC Radio 4, November 2003. eleased as a BBC Audiobook 2007*''Dead Souls''. Adaptation of novel by

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

. BBC Radio 4, April 2006. *''Cavalry''. BBC Radio 4, March 2008. *'' Girlfriend in a Coma''. Adaptation of a

Douglas Coupland Douglas Coupland (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller '' Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'', popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He ...

novel by the same name.

BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, Radio drama, drama, High culture, culture and the arts ...

, February 2008. *''And So Say All of Us''. Written with Linda McLean and Duncan Macmillan. (First broadcast on

on 2 May 2010) *''My Life is a Series of People Saying Goodbye''. BBC Radio 4, April 2011) *''Negative Signs of Progress''.

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, February 2013

Notable publications

*''1956 and all That'', London:

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, 1999. *''Static'', London: Oberon Books, 2008. *''Theatre & Globalization'', Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009. *''Contemporary European Theatre Directors'', co-edited with Maria M. Delgado, London:

, 2010. *''Chekhov in Hell'', London: Oberon, 2010 (rev. ed. 2011). *''Beachy Head'', co-written with Emma Jowett and Lewis Hetherington. London: Oberon, 2011. *''The Suspect Culture Book'' co-edited with Graham Eatough, London: Oberon, 2011. *''Modern British Playwriting 2000-2009: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations'' London: Methuen Drama, 2013.

References

External links

Royal Holloway profile

Twitter profile
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