Steve WATERS

A major UK dramatist, Steve’s plays include: THE CONTINGENCY PLAN – his pioneering climate change plays ON THE BEACH and RESILIENCE (Bush Theatre; revived in a new version at Crucible Theatre Sheffield); THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND adapted from the novel by Giles Foden (Crucible Theatre Sheffield); LIMEHOUSE (Donmar Warehouse); TEMPLE (Donmar Warehouse); WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER? (Menagerie Theatre/Soho/Theatre503); EUROPA, as co-author (Birmingham Repertory Theatre/Dresden State Theatre/Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz/Zagreb Youth Theatre); IGNORANCE/JAHILIYYAH (Hampstead Downstairs); LITTLE PLATOONS (Bush Theatre); FAST LABOUR (Hampstead, in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse); OUT OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE (Menagerie Theatre/ Pleasance, Edinburgh/East Anglian tour); WORLD MUSIC (Crucible Theatre Sheffield, and subsequent transfer to the Donmar Warehouse); THE UNTHINKABLE (Crucible Theatre Sheffield); AFTER THE GODS (Hampstead Theatre); and ENGLISH JOURNEYS (Hampstead Theatre).

His writing for television and radio includes SAFE HOUSE (BBC4),THE FALL OF THE SHAH (podcast series BBC World Service), MYRIAM & YOUSSEF, THE AIR GAP, THE MODERNISER (BBC Radio 4), THE PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS (Fact to Fiction, BBC R4), SCRIBBLERS, and BRETTON WOODS (BBC Radio 3).

He ran the MPhil in Playwriting at Birmingham University between 2006 and 2011, and is now Professor of Scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia, where he convenes the MA in Creative Writing: Scriptwriting programme.

Steve’s plays are published by Nick Hern Books. He is also the author of THE SECRET LIFE OF PLAYS.