STEPHEN LAUGHTON
Stephen Laughton has worked with Headlong Theatre as part of their Headstart writers’ programme. In January 2015, his play, Nine, was part of the PlayWROUGHT#3 Festival at the Arcola Theatre. Stephen has been involved with various theatres in the UK – he is an alumnus of the Royal Court’s Invitational Writers’ Group, the Skylines programme at Hampstead Theatre, and he was part of a series of development workshops with the Young Vic Theatre and SoundBites. His first play, Marina Abramovic is Staring at Me, opened Terra Firma Theatre’s 2011–12 Boxcar Reading Series at the Railroad Playhouse in Newburgh, New York, before moving on to the Cell Theatre in Manhattan.
His work for television includes Forward (Blacklisted Films) and Black Hill (Lime Pictures). For film, he is working on a script for emerging director Ryan Andrew’s second feature film, The Lake. Stephen’s short drama for young audiences, Merry New Year, was broadcast as part of a collaboration between Hampstead and the Roundhouse Theatres.
Prior to life as a writer, Stephen worked as an Associate Producer on a range of critically acclaimed film and television productions, including the Academy Award-shortlisted Unknown White Male and multi-award-winning Tottenham Ayatollah. He co-directed a short-film, Recompense, which screened at the BFI and was an official selection for the New York Independent Film Festival, where it won Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Directorial Debut in the Short Film Category.
A Nick Hern Book
Plays from VAULT first published in Great Britain in 2016 as a paperback original by Nick Hern Books Limited, The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road, London W12 8QP, in association with VAULT Festival
This ebook first published in 2016
Eggs copyright © 2016 Florence Keith-Roach
Mr Incredible copyright © 2016 Camilla Whitehill
Primadonna copyright © 2016 Rosie Kellett
Cornermen copyright © 2016 Oli Forsyth
Run copyright © 2016 Stephen Laughton
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