Simon Bent

Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright, notable for work including BBC TV drama Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006), the screenplay for the feature film Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000), and the Joe Orton biographical play Prick Up Your Ears based on John Lahr's book.[1][2]

Simon Bent
OccupationScreenwriter, playwright
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish

Theatrical productions

He wrote the theatre adaptation of A Prayer for Owen Meany (2002), staged at the Royal National Theatre and in America in Washington, Boston, Philadelphia. Elling (2007) opened at the Bush Theatre with John Simm and Jonathan Cecil[3] and transferred to the Trafalgar Studios; later it was produced in Australia and on Broadway. Prick Up Your Ears was produced in 2009 at the Comedy Theatre with Matt Lucas.[4][5]

Plays

Television & Film
  • "Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry" (2000)
  • "Beau Brummel:This Charming Man" (2006)
  • "The Yellow House" (2007)
  • "Sex, The City and Me"(2007)

Awards

He was nominated for the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer at the 2003 BAFTA Awards, for Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry.

References
  1. Kellaway, Kate (4 October 2009). "Prick Up Your Ears (Review)". The Guardian (UK).
  2. Charlton, James Martin (10 November 2009). "British theatre is wrong about Joe Orton". The Guardian (UK).
  3. Gardner, Lyn (1 May 2007). "Elling (Review)". The Guardian (UK).
  4. Benedictus, Leo (5 October 2009). "What to say about ... Prick Up Your Ears". The Guardian (UK).
  5. Billington, Michael (1 October 2009). "Prick Up Your Ears". The Guardian (UK).
  6. Costa, Maddy (21 August 2002). "The Associate (Review)". The Guardian (UK).


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