More amazing speakers joining us for the TYA Forum April 27-29! Remember, you can still register:
Carl Miller
Carl was Associate Director and Literary Manager of Unicorn
Theatre from 2002 to 2012. He has also been an Associate Director
at Birmingham Rep and Artistic Director of the Royal Court
Young People’s Theatre. His plays include: Butcher, Descent
(Birmingham Rep), Bud (NPYA / NYU), Red Fortress (Unicorn Theatre and
NPYA NYU), Return (Hertfordshire County Youth Theatre), The
Coming of the King (City Lit); Sherlock Holmes and The
Athenaeum Ghoul, Hansel and Gretel, and Janet and
Jane (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), The Last Enemy (Gay Sweatshop) and Master
Betty (Man in the Moon Theatre). His adaptations include
Ostrich Boys (Birmingham Rep), The Birthday of the
Infanta (Trestle), The Three Musketeers, The London
Eye Mystery (Unicorn Theatre), Journey to the River Sea (Theatre
Centre and Unicorn), Black-Eyed Susan (Theatre Royal Bury
St Edmunds), The Hound of the Baskervilles (Collins Drama)
and The Same Language (Hotbed Festival). He also wrote the
short film Jean and the libretti for Night Dance (Guildhall School of
Music and Drama) and Spellshock / Spellbound Child
(New Visions/New Voices) as well as books including Stages of Desire:
Gay Theatre's Hidden History.
Brendan
Murray
The youngest
of five children from Salford, Lancashire, Brendan trained as an actor and
worked for ten years in schools, fringe, Rep and commercial theatre. From 1982 to 1985 he was Head of
Theatre-in-Education at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry and, in 1989/90,
writer-in-residence at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield. Since then he has divided his time between
writing, directing and teaching, principally at Drama Studio London. In 2002/3
he was the Visiting Gulbenkian Fellow in the Department of Palliative Care at
King’s College Hospital and, from 2003 to 2008, Artistic Director of
Oxfordshire Theatre Company. His plays have been produced throughout the UK and
worldwide, and won both the Brian Way and
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
Awards. You can find out more about him at www.brendanmurray.co.uk
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