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Joel Horwood is a British playwright. He has been a member of the
Royal Court
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Hampstead Theatre
Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in South Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. Roxana Silbert has been the artistic director since ...
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His plays include ''I Caught Crabs in Walberswick'', ''Mikey the Pikey'', ''Food'', and ''I Heart Peterborough'', all of which have been presented on the
Edinburgh Fringe
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. ''Is Everyone OK?'' toured England and played in Croatia in October 2010. He was one of the four writers who adapted
Radiohead's ''
OK Computer'' for
BBC Radio 4
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. His adaptation of
The Count of Monte Cristo played at
West Yorkshire Playhouse in May 2010. Horwood also took part in the
Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Plays in 2006 and the celebrity version of the same event in 2009.
His play ''All The Little Things We Crushed'' was produced in 2009 at the
Almeida Theatre
The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325-seat producing house with an international reputation, which takes its name from the street on which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diver ...
in
London
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directed by
Simon Godwin
Simon Godwin is an English theatre director based in Washington, DC, where he is currently serving as artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Previously he was based in London, serving as associate director of London's National Thea ...
.
The cast included;
Zawe Ashton
Zawedde Emma "Zawe" Ashton (; born 25 July 1984) is a British actress, playwright and narrator. She is best known for her roles in the comedy dramas '' Fresh Meat'' and ''Not Safe for Work'', the Netflix horror thriller film ''Velvet Buzzsaw'' ...
,
Richard Bremmer
Richard Bremmer (born 27 January 1953) is an English actor.
Early life
Bremmer was born and brought up in Warwickshire.
Career
Bremmer first began his career in the short film of ''Couples and Robbers'' before being in his first full-length fi ...
, Louise Ford, Andrew Hawley, Martina Laird and
David Oakes
Rowan David Oakes (born 14 October 1983) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in the series ''The Pillars of the Earth'', '' The Borgias'', '' The White Queen'', ''Victoria'', '' Vikings: Valhalla'', and for his discursive Natural ...
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Following his work writing for 'Skins', Horwood was commissioned to work on an original series idea for Channel 4.
He wrote the stage adaptation of
''The Ocean at the End of the Lane'' based on the novel by
Neil Gaiman for the
National Theatre, London
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which opened in December 2019.
References
English dramatists and playwrights
Living people
British television writers
English male dramatists and playwrights
British male television writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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