associate artist (playwright)

Colin Teevan will be working with emerging writers, taking part in discussions and special events, and consulting on the programming of the Playhouse.

Colin's stage plays include Don Quixote (with Pablo Ley), How Many Miles to Basra? (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Bee (Soho Theatre/Setagaya Theatre,Tokyo), Missing Persons: Four Tragedies and Roy Keane (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh/Trafalgar Studios), Cock of the North (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Monkey (Young Vic/Dundee Rep),  The Walls (National Theatre), Svejk (The Gate/The Duke, New York), Vinegar and Brown Paper (Abbey, Dublin), The Big Sea (Galloglass, Ireland/Riverside Studios). Stage translations include: Bacchai (National Theatre/Epidaurus, Greece), Cuckoos (The Gate/Barbican), Marathon (The Gate), Iph... (Lyric Theatre, Belfast). Radio plays include Iph..., Tricycles, The RoyKeaneiad Parts I&II, Medea: The Last Word, How Many Miles to Basra?, Glass Houses.

Recent productions include the acclaimed Kafka's Monkey (Young Vic and world tour); The Lion of Kabul, part of The Great Game festival of work on Afghanistan at The Tricycle; and a revival of National Theatre of Scotland's production of his new version of Peer Gynt at The Barbican and on tour.

bbc writer on attachment

Oliver Emmanuel's play, Magpie Park was seen as part of the Northern Exposure season at the Playhouse.Oliver studied at the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds and holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. As well as being the current BBC Writer on Attachment at West Yorkshire Playhouse, he is co-Artistic Director of Leeds-based Silver Tongue Theatre. Theatre includes: Gemini, IZ, Bella and the Beautiful Knight and Shiver, Oliver's new work for Silver Tongue Theatre, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2006. Much of his work has also been performed in Austria by the Vienna Theatre Project. Radio includes: By The Light Of The Moon (BBC).

on commision

The Power                              
Alice Nutter                 
Play about the Pendle witches centred on the prosecutor’s wife, taking in class, politics, religion and magic.

Peppermint – the Musical         
Mark Catley                
New play with music about teenagers in Leeds, from writer of Scuffer and Crap Dad.

Untitled
Colin Teevan               
New play set in dystopian future

South Riding                            
Judith Adams               
Adaptation of Winifred Holtby’s Yorkshire masterpiece.