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Biography
- Stephen Lowe
Stephen
Lowe was born in Nottingham, and graduated in Drama and English from Birmingham
University, where he also did post-graduate research. For four years he worked
as actor/director with Alan Ayckbourn's Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough
before his first major award-winning stage-play TOUCHED,(1978) directed by Richard
Eyre, was staged at Nottingham Playhouse. Since then, his stage plays include
- COMIC PICTURES (directed by Alan Ayckbourn) RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS
(Joint Stock), GLASSHOUSES, BODY AND SOUL and TIBETAN INROADS (all for the Royal
Court Theatre, London) , DIVINE GOSSIP (R.S.C.), SEACHANGE (Riverside Studios,
London), as well as numerous plays written and directed for Meeting Ground Theatre,
of which he is the founding artistic director (including STRIVE, the musical
PARADISE,DESIRE,DEMONLOVERS). He has also translated Schiller's WILLIAM TELL
(Sheffield Crucible) and Ostrovsky's THE STORM (RSC). Twelve of his plays are
published by Methuen.
His writing for TV and film includes everything from four years writing CORONATION
STREET as well as other "soaps" and DALZIEL AND PASCOE, the BBC-TV classical
adaptation of Stendhal's SCARLET AND BLACK starring Ewan MacGregor, the award-nominated
three-part BBC psycho-drama, TELLTALE HEARTS starring Bill Patterson, and numerous
90minute BBC Films including CRIES FROM A WATCHTOWER, ICE DANCE and FLEA BITES
starring Nigel Hawthorne (all set in Nottingham).
His new stage-play ALCHEMICAL WEDDING opened at Salisbury Playhouse, and filming
has just completed on his eight-hour TV-film epic of the initial meeting between
Europeans and the Maoris- GREENSTONE- produced by the team that created the
film "Once Were Warriors".
He has been resident playwright at the Royal Court, Riverside Studios, and Dartington
College of Arts, where he was senior tutor of playwrighting for four years on
the degree course. He established the practical programme of work on the MA
playwrighting course at Birmingham University, and has conducted TV and theatre
writing courses for, amongst others, the Arvon Foundation, National Theatre,
RSC, South West Arts, Granada TV, the BBC, as well as abroad. He has served
on various advisory boards, including South West Arts, the board of Great Eastern
Stage Company, and the advisory panel to Nottingham Trent University Theatre
Design department. He is on the board of East Midlands Arts and chair of the
Year of the Artist 2000 (East Midlands) board.