Oliver Emanuel

Oliver Emanuel (born 4 April 1980) is a British playwright and radio dramatist. His play Daniel and Mary received a Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama in 2010.[1] His play Dragon won Best Show For Children and Young People at the UK Theatre Awards in 2014.[2] His English version of Titus won the People's Choice Victor Award in 2015 at IPAY.[3] His play A History of Paper was shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award 2017,[4] When The Pips Stop won the Tinniswood Award in 2019,[5] and The Truth About Hawaii won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Series or Serial in 2019.[6]

Oliver Emanuel was born in Kent, attended St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School in Tunbridge Wells, studied English and Theatre Studies at University of Leeds (1998–2001) before going on to take the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (2001–02). His late mother was a drama teacher and his father is a lawyer.[7] He was Writer-on-Attachment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2006 and Writer-in-Residence for BBC Radio 4 Children in Need in 2010. He has lived in Glasgow since 2006. He is Reader of Playwriting at the University of St Andrews, an Associate Playwright at Playwrights' Studio Scotland, and Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library.[8]

In addition to his radio and stage plays below, Oliver Emanuel has written two plays for Polmont Young Offenders Institute, Ship of Shadows (October 2009) and John (7 May 2010), and scripted the short film This Way Up.

Radio plays
Radio plays written by Oliver Emanuel
Date first broadcast Play Director Cast Awards Station
Series
11 April 2007 Joseph and Joseph [9] Colin Guthrie Shaun Dooley, Helen Longworth, Christine Kavanagh, Sam Dale, John Dougall, Philippe Smolikowski, Mark Straker and Rachel Bavidge BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play
9 October 2009 Daniel and Mary [10] Kirsty Williams Robin Laing and Natasha Watson Bronze Sony Award for Best Drama 2010 [1] BBC Radio Scotland
Drama
23 February 2010 Elvis in Prestwick [11] Eilidh McCreadie Read by Laura Fraser BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Reading
30 October 2010 The Vanishing
dramatisation of Tim Krabbé novel [12]		 Kirsty Williams Samuel West, Melody Grove, Ruth Gemmell, Liam Brennan, Natasha Watson, Claire Knight and Robin Laing BBC Radio 4
Saturday Play
17 November 2010 Everything [13] Lu Kemp Natasha Watson, Sandy Grierson and Meg Fraser BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play
12 February 2011 One Night in Iran [14] Lu Kemp Khalid Abdalla and Maryam Hamidi BBC Radio 3
The Wire
28 September 2011 One Hundred and Forty Characters: Songbirds [15] Kirsteen Cameron Read by Robin Laing BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Reading
30 November 2011 Ancient Greek [16] Lu Kemp Alex Austin, Vincent Ebrahim, Sophie Stanton, Caitlin FitzGerald and Austin Moulton BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play
30 June 2012 Thirteen Minutes in Cairo [17] Kirsty Williams Meg Fraser, Simon Tait and Hannah Donaldson BBC Radio 4
From Fact to Fiction
13 August 2012 – 17 August 2012 The Other One [18] Kirsty Williams Natasha Watson, Frances Grey, Robin Laing, Meg Fraser and Finlay Welsh BBC Radio 4
Woman's Hour Drama
22 February 2013 The Spare Room [19] Lu Kemp Candida Benson, Babou Ceesay, Hannah Wood and Michael Shelford BBC Radio 4
29 January 2014 Albion Street [20] Gaynor Macfarlane Robin Laing and Meg Fraser BBC Radio Scotland
Drama
16 January 2015 Take Me to the Necropolis [21] Kirsty Williams Emerald O'Hanrahan, Rebecca Benson, Lewis Binnie, Alison Peebles, Rosalind Sydney and Liam Brennan BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play
23 November 2015 Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.3. Food
dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [22] [23]		 Kirsty Williams Glenda Jackson, Jodie McNee, James Anthony Pearson, Jonathan Keeble, Graeme Hawley, Millie Kinsey and Julie Hesmondhalgh BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play
24 November 2015 Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.4. Politics
dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [24]		 Kirsty Williams Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Laura Dos Santos, Jodie McNee, James Anthony Pearson, Graeme Hawley and Jonathan Keeble BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play
25 November 2015 Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.5. Drink
dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [25]		 Kirsty Williams Glenda Jackson, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Mark Holgate BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play
26 January 2016 A History of Paper [26] [27] [28] Kirsty Williams Mark Bonnar and Lucy Gaskell Shortlisted for Tinniswood Award 2017 [4] BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play
7 May 2016 Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.1. Performance
dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [29]		 Kirsty Williams Glenda Jackson, Holliday Grainger, Ben Batt, John Catterall, David Crellin, Kimberly Hart-Simpson, Reece Noi and Kate O'Flynn BBC Radio 4
Saturday Play
8 May 2016 Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.2. Power
dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [30]		 Kirsty Williams Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Victoria Beesley, Laurie Brown, Laura Dos Santos, Alasdair Hankinson and Jonathan Keeble BBC Radio 4
28 October 2016 Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 3.7. Fate
dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [31] [32]		 Kirsty Williams Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Samuel West, John Bett, Colette O'Neil, Gavi Singh Chera and Sean Graham

BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Adaptation, 2017.[33]

 BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play
29 January 2017 Transformations [34] Kirsty Williams Read by Shauna Macdonald BBC Radio 4
22 January 2018 – 2 February 2018 The Truth About Hawaii [35] Kirsty Williams Jocelyn Brassington, Christine Bottomley, Roderick Gilkison, Robin Laing, Kevin Mains, Anita Vettesse, Dani Heron and Adura Onashile BBC Audio Drama Award winner for Best Original Series or Serial, 2019.[6]

ISNTD (International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases) Festival, Best Audio Drama, 2018.

 BBC Radio 4
15 Minute Drama
30 September 2018 (After) Fear [36] Kirsty Williams Shauna Macdonald, Meg Fraser, Maryam Hamidi and Robin Laing BBC Radio 3
Drama on 3
11 October 2018 When The Pips Stop [37] Kirsty Williams Shauna Macdonald, Jessica Hardwick, Jakob Jakobsson and Ken Mitchell Tinniswood Award 2019 winner [5] [6] BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Drama

Theatre
Stage plays written by Oliver Emanuel
DateTitleDirectorCastTheatre CompanyNotes
August 2001 – 18 August 2001 Gemini[38] Victoria Glass and Claire Davies Stage By Stage
3 August 2003 – 25 August 2003 Iz [39] Daniel Bye Grae Cleugh and Nick Jesper Silver Tongue Theatre / Pleasance Theatre
June 2004 – Grae Cleugh and James Gitsham Silver Tongue Theatre / Tron Theatre, Glasgow
August 2006 – 28 August 2006 Shiver [40] Daniel Bye Kay Bridgeman and Grae Cleugh Silver Tongue Theatre / Pleasance Courtyard
28 May 2007 – 7 June 2007 Marcia Battise Theatre 503
6 August 2005 – 28 August 2005 Bella and the Beautiful Knight [41] [42] Daniel Bye Grae Cleugh, Sally Kent, Nicholas Cowell Silver Tongue Theatre / Gilded Balloon Teviot
May 2006 – Tron Theatre, Glasgow
19 May 2007 – 8 June 2007 Magpie Park [43] [44] [45] [46] Sam Brown Alison Pargeter and Liam McKenna West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
August 2007 – 26 August 2007 Man Across the Way [47] [48] Daniel Bye Grae Cleugh, Nicholas Cowell, John Milroy and Harriette Quarrie Silver Tongue Theatre and Theatre 503
April 2008 – 11 April 2008 The Severed Head of Comrade Bukhari [49] Daljinder Singh Arches Theatre, Glasgow
16 April 2008 – 19 April 2008 Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
June 2008 – Flit Alison Peebles National Theatre of Scotland
13 October 2008 – Videotape [50] Joe Douglas Robbie Jack and Sam Young Òran Mór, Glasgow
March 2011 – One night in Iran [51] Nabil Stuart and Amiera Darwish Òran Mór, Glasgow
21 June 2011 Henry & Ingrid: Some Words For Home Tron Theatre, Glasgow
2011 – Spirit of Adventure [52] Dundee Rep / Òran Mór, Glasgow
2012 – Random Objects Flying Through The Air Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / Playwrights' Studio, Scotland
2012 – End of The World Red Note Ensemble
2012 – 2013 Titus Macrobert / Playwrights' Studio, Scotland / Imaginate / Edinburgh Festival Fringe New English version of Jan Sobrie's text.
2013 – The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish Lu Kemp National Theatre of Scotland Adaptation of the book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (created by Lu Kemp and Abigail Docherty)
2013 – 2015 Dragon Vox Motus / National Theatre of Scotland / Tianjin People's Arts Theatre, China Conceived by Jamie Harrison, Oliver Emanuel and Candice Edmunds
4 December 2014 – 4 January 2015 The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot [53] Gareth Nicholls David Ireland and Alasdair Hankinson Macrobert
The Arches, Glasgow		 Co-created with Gareth Nicholls
2014 – The Adventures of Robin Hood Visible Fictions
13 May 2015 – The Lost Things [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] Ross MacKay Arran Howie and Alex Bird Tortoise in a Nutshell
21 March 2016 – 26 March 2016 Prom [59] [60] Gareth Nicholls Ryan Fletcher, Helen MacKay, Martin McBride and Nicola Roy A Play, a Pie and a Pint
Òran Mór, Glasgow
29 March 2016 – 6 April 2016 Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
24 May 2016 – 11 June 2016 The 306: Dawn [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] Laurie Sansom Scott Gilmour, Josef Davies and Joshua Miles National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre with funding from 14–18 NOW Composed by Gareth Williams
5 May 2017 – 3 June 2017 The 306: Day [66] [67] [68] [69] Jemima Levick Dani Heron, Amanda Wilkin, Fletcher Mathers, Wendy Somerville, Angela Hardie and Steven Miller National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre and Stellar Quines Theatre Company with funding from 14–18 NOW Composed by Gareth Williams
4 August 2017 – 27 August 2017 Flight [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds Nalini Chetty, Farshid Rokey, Emun Elliott, Maryam Hamidi, Robert Jack, Rosalind Sydney, Waleed Akhtar and Adura Odashile

Herald Angel Award 2017.

 Vox Motus
Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh		 Based on the novel Hinterland by Caroline Brothers
29 January 2018 – 30 September 2018 McKittrick Hotel, New York [80]
5 October 2018 – 21 October 2018 Melbourne International Arts Festival [81]
4 May 2019 – 23 May 2019 Brighton Festival [82]
18 January 2020 – 2 February 2020 ASU Gammage [83]
10 October 2018 – 27 October 2018 The 306: Dusk [84] [85] [86] [87] Wils Wilson Sarah Kameela Impey, Ryan Fletcher and Danny Hughes National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre with funding from 14–18 NOW Composed by Gareth Williams
3 October 2019 – 19 October 2019 The Monstrous Heart [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] Gareth Nicholls Charlene Boyd, Christine Entwisle and Tanya Moodie Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
22 October 2019 – 2 November 2019 Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Short stories

Other work

References
  1. Sony Radio Academy Awards – Official site (not currently useful!)
    Sony Radio Academy Awards – Diversity website (temporary substitute)
    Sony Radio Academy Awards nominees, The Telegraph, 8 April 2010
  2. UK Theatre Awards 2014 winners announced, The Stage, 19 October 2014
  3. International Associaton of Performing Arts for Youth – Victor Award
  4. Tinniswood Award 2017 – Society of Authors and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
  5. Tinniswood Award 2019 – Society of Authors and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
  6. BBC Audio Drama Awards – 2019 Winners
  7. A Scottish play that remembers the forgotten stories of WWI deserters – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 5 January 2016
  8. What’s the Big Idea? – Playwrights' Studio Scotland
  9. BBC – Afternoon Play – Joseph and Joseph
  10. BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Daniel and Mary
  11. BBC – Afternoon Reading – Elvis In Prestwick
  12. BBC – Saturday Play – The Vanishing
  13. BBC – Afternoon Play – Children in Need: Everything
  14. BBC – The Wire – One Night In Iran
  15. BBC – Afternoon Reading – One Hundred and Forty Characters: Songbirds
  16. BBC – Afternoon Play – Ancient Greek
  17. BBC – From Fact to Fiction – Thirteen Minutes in Cairo
  18. BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Other One
  19. BBC – Afternoon Play – The Spare Room
  20. BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Albion Street
  21. BBC – Afternoon Play – Take Me to the Necropolis
  22. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.3. Food
  23. Adapting Emile Zola for BBC Radio 4 – Oliver Emanuel, BBC writers room, 27 November 2015
  24. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.4. Politics
  25. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.5. Drink
  26. BBC – Afternoon Play – A History of Paper
  27. The History of 'A History of Paper' (or three lessons about radio drama) – Kirsty Williams, BBC writers room, 24 January 2017
  28. Script: A History of Paper by Oliver Emanuel
  29. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 3.7. Performance
  30. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.2. Power
  31. BBC – Afternoon Play – Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 3.7. Fate
  32. BBC Sounds – "We've run out of books!" – Oliver Emanuel on making up an episode...
  33. BBC Audio Drama Awards – 2017 Winners
  34. BBC – The Poet and the Echo – Transformations
  35. BBC – 15 Minute Drama – The Truth About Hawaii
  36. BBC – Drama on 3 – (After) Fear
  37. BBC – Afternoon Drama – When The Pips Stop
  38. Gemini – The Scotsman, 14 August 2001
  39. Iz, Edinburgh Festival, Pleasance Theatre – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 22 August 2003
  40. Shiver, Edinburgh Festival, Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh – Maddy Costa, The Guardian, 18 August 2006
  41. Bella and the Beautiful Knight – Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 24 August 2005
  42. Theatre: Bella and the Beautiful Knight, Tron, Glasgow 3/5 – Keith Bruce, The Herald, 5 May 2006
  43. Theatre Preview, Magpie Park, Leeds – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 19 May 2007
  44. Magpie Park, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds – Alfred Hickling, The Guardian, 26 May 2007
  45. Magpie Park – Kevin Berry, The Stage, 24 May 2007
  46. BBC – Leeds – Entertainment – Parklife
  47. Man Across The Way – The Scotsman, 9 August 2007
  48. Man Across The Way – Gerald Berkowitz, The Stage, 17 August 2007
  49. Theatre: From war abroad to a war at home – The Scotsman, 10 April 2008
  50. Videotape, Oran Mor, Glasgow – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 16 October 2008
  51. Theatre review: One night in Iran, Glasgow – The Scotsman, 22 March 2011
  52. Theatre review: Spirit of Adventure, Glasgow – The Herald, 15 February 2012
  53. The Stage - 5 Dec 2014
  54. Imaginate 2015 Festival Programme
  55. The Lost Things by Tortoise in a Nutshell and Oliver Emanuel
  56. A perfectly formed immersive puppet show from Tortoise in a Nutshell – Claire Wood, The Wee Review, 12 August 2018
  57. The Lost Things – Katie Rose, Broadway Baby, 12 August 2018
  58. Theatre Review: The Lost Things – Peter Callaghan, Reviewsphere, 17 April 2019
  59. Prom – A Play, a Pie and a Pint
  60. PPP: Prom – Hugh Simpson, All Edinburgh Theatre, 29 March 2016
  61. The 306: Dawn – National Theatre of Scotland
  62. The 306: Dawn, the play that honours First World War soldiers shot for desertion – Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman, 23 May 2016
  63. Theatre review: The 306: Dawn, Dalcrue, Perthshire – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 30 May 2016
  64. Theatre Review: The 306: Dawn, Dalcrue Farm, Perth – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 30th May 2016
  65. Theatre: The 306: Dawn at Dalcrue Farm, Perthshire – Allan Radcliffe, The Times, 1 June 2016
  66. The 306: Day – National Theatre of Scotland
  67. Theatre review: The 306: Day – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 9 May 2017
  68. Theatre review: The 306: Day, Station Hotel, Perth – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 8 May 2017
  69. Theatre: The 306: Day at Station Hotel, Perth – Allan Radcliffe, The Times, 16 May 2017
  70. Flight – Vox Motus
  71. EIF 2017: Flight, Church Hill Theatre & Studio, Review – Irene Brown, Edinburgh Guide, 5 August 2017
  72. Flight review – miniature models tell epic refugee story – Michael Billington, The Guardian, 6 Aug 2017
  73. Festival Theatre: Flight, Churchill Theatre – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 6 August 2017
  74. Theatre review: Flight – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 7 August 2017
  75. Flight review at Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh – ‘deeply important and innovative’ – Anna Winter, The Stage, 7 August 2017
  76. Edinburgh International Festival Review: Flight – Dylan Taylor, All Edinburgh Theatre, 11 August 2017
  77. Theatre – Birds and prey – Tableaux of hardship and loss – Anna Aslanyan, The Times Literary Supplement, 18 August 2017
  78. Edinburgh theatre review: Flight – Susannah Clapp, The Observer, 20 August 2017
  79. Review: ‘Flight’ Has No Live Actors. But Its Story of Two Afghan Boys Feels So Real – Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times, 12 February 2018
  80. Flight – McKittrick Hotel, New York
  81. Flight – Melbourne International Arts Festival
  82. Flight – Brighton Festival
  83. Flight – ASU Gammage
  84. The 306: Dusk – National Theatre of Scotland
  85. Theatre review: The 306: Dusk, Perth Theatre – The Scotsman, 25 October 2018
  86. Theatre review: The 306: Dusk at Perth Theatre – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 15 October 2018
  87. Theatre review: The 306: Dusk, Perth Theatre – Allan Radcliffe, The Times, 15 October 2018
  88. The Monstrous Heart by Oliver Emanuel – Traverse Theatre
  89. The Monstrous Heart review – blood, fury and a talking dead bear – Miriam Gillinson, The Guardian, 10 October 2019
  90. The Monstrous Heart review at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – ‘overwrought and awkward’ – Fergus Morgan, The Stage, 24 October 2019
  91. Theatre reviews: The Monstrous Heart, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 25 October 2019
  92. Review: The Monstrous Heart, Traverse, Edinburgh, Four stars – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 25 October 2019
  93. "Nude by Oliver Emanuel". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  94. Desperate Run
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