Steve Waters is a British playwright. He was born in Coventry, UK. He studied English at Oxford University, taught in secondary schools and was a graduate of David Edgar's MA in Playwriting in 1993, a course which he later ran for several years. He has written about the pedagogy of playwriting, contributed articles to The Guardian, essays to ''The Blackwell Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama'' and ''The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter'', and has written a book entitled, ''The Secret Life of Plays'' (2010).

Plays

* ''English Journeys'' (1998) * ''After The Gods'' (2002) * ''World Music'' (2003) * ''The Unthinkable'' (2004) * ''Fast Labour'' (2008) * '' The Contingency Plan'' (2009) * ''Little Platoons'' (2011) * ''Ignorance/ Jahiliyyah'' (2012) * ''The Air Gap'' (2012) A radio play broadcast by BBC Radio 4. * Bretton Woods (2014) Broadcast on BBC Radio 3. * Scribblers (2015) BBC Radio 3 * ''

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'' (2015) * The Play About Calais (2016) * ''

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'' (2017) * ''The Fall of the Shah'' (2019) * ''The Last King of Scotland'' (2019) * ''Miriam and Youssef'' (2020)

Collaborative Works

The

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's 2011 project ''

Sixty Six Books ''Sixty-Six Books'' was a set of plays premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2011, to mark the theatre's reopening on a new site and the 400th anniversary of the King James Version. It drew its title from the 66 books of the Protestant Bible ...

'' used the

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as inspiration for new theatre. Waters wrote the short play, ''Capernaum''.
He adapted and translated ''Habitats'' by Philippe Minyana.
He collaborated with the Menagerie Theatre Company, with ''Out of Your Knowledge'' (2005-8) and Offstage Theatre Company, with ''Amphibians'' (2011).

References

Sources

Theatre review: The Contingency Plan, Bush, London
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