Phil Willmott - Press Pics/Biog
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Playwright Programme Biog 09/10
Phil Willmott is a multi-award winning director, artistic director, playwright, composer, librettist, teacher, dramaturg, arts journalist…. and occasional actor. He has worked in theatres across the world on everything from classical drama, musicals and family shows to cabaret and cutting edge new writing.
The UK’s most commissioned musical theatre writer, he is currently under contract to write new musicals for Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Playhouse and The Spirit of Broadway in Connecticut.
He is founding Artistic Director of his award winning theatre company THE STEAM INDUSTRY incorporating The Finborough Theatre (under the Artistic Directorship of Neil NcPherson) and the London's annual Free Theatre Festival at the open-air "Scoop" amphitheatre on the South Bank
He was an Associate Artist of London's acclaimed Battersea Arts Centre for ten years and has also been Associate Director of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and Co-Director of the U.K’s leading degree course in Musical Theatre at London’s Arts Educational School where he was also Head of Acting.
In 2009 He was awarded a prestigious T.M.A award for “Outstanding production of a musical” and nominated for the What’s On Stage “Best Regional Theatre” prize for his musical Once Upon A Time at the Adelphi (Liverpool Playhouse). In London he received a Peter Brook Award for his annual classical productions and family shows at the Scoop and numerous London Fringe Awards. He has also been the recipient of a Brook Atkinson New Dramatists Award in New York.
Published and widely performed work includes Femme Fatale and The Dick Barton Special Agent trilogy (Croydon Warehouse), Around the World in Eighty Days (BAC and Liverpool Playhouse and tour) Uncle Ebenezer - A Christmas Carol (BAC and U.S.A) Stupid Cupid (Gay Sweatshop tour) Wolf Boys (The Yvonne Arnuad, Guildford) Venom (off West End at The Drill Hall), Stealing the Scene & Mermaid Sandwich (both London Fringe and BBC R4) Succulence (The Royal Court in New York), The Trouble with Listening (Soho Theatre Company). Adaptations include Lysistrata (With Germaine Greer) (BAC) The Master’s Boy, a gay appropriation of Miss Julie (The Actor’s Centre and The Oval House) The Lower Depths, from the play by Maxim Gorki (The Finborough Theatre) Monk Lewis’s the Castle Spectre (Croydon Warehouse) and Euripides’ Cyclops!, The Adventures of Jason and the Argonauts, Treasure Island and The London Nativity - from the Medieval Mystery texts (the Scoop). He has written pantomimes for all the top pantomime companies including Snow White for Milton Keens Theatre, Dick Whittington for Oxford Playhouse and Aladdin & Puss in Boots for the T.M.A Award nominated Corn Exchange in Newbury.
www.philwillmott.co.uk
Director or Writer/Director Programme Biog 09/10
Phil Willmott is a multi-award winning director, artistic director, playwright, composer, librettist, teacher, dramaturg, arts journalist and occasional actor. He has worked in theatres across the world on everything from classical drama, musicals and family shows to cabaret and cutting edge new writing and is one of the UK’s foremost directors of Greek Tragedy.
He is Artistic Director of his own multi award winning theatre company The Steam Industry (incorporating The Finborough Theatre and the open-air "Scoop" amphitheatre on the South Bank) and a recipient of a TMA Award for outstanding direction of a musical, a Peter Brook Award for his out door classical productions and family shows, a whatsonstage award nomination for best regional production and a Brooks Atkinson/Royal Court award for Playwriting.
He was an Associate Artist of London's acclaimed Battersea Arts Centre for ten years and has also been Associate Director of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and Co-Director of the U.K’s leading degree course in Musical Theatre at London’s Arts Educational School where he was also Head of Acting.
Successful productions have included the tenth anniversary cast of Fame, Naked Boys Singing, Nunsense, F**cking Men and Treasure Island in the West End, A Midsummer Nights Dream in Dubai, Blowing Whistles (Croydon Warehouse Theatre and Sound Theatre, Leicester Square) Billy Liar, Athol Fugard's Master Harold... and the boys & his own musicals Once Upon a Time at The Adelphi (Liverpool Playhouse) & Around the World in Eighty Days (Liverpool Playhouse, UK tour and German tour) Rent (Olympia, Dublin) Pal Joey (Nottingham Playhouse) Angels in America and Kiss of the Spider Woman (Sheffield Crucible) Medea, Jason and the Argonauts, Blood Wedding, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Cyclops!, Helen of Troy, Disney's Jungle Book, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Androcles and the Lion, The London Nativity, Treasure Island and Children of Hercules (the Scoop) and many other acclaimed London productions including Country Magic, Crime and Punishment, The Lower Depths, F**cking Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Trelawney of the Wells and Loyalties (The Finborough) Sweet Charity, Calamity Jane, The Sound of Music, The King and I, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Uncle Ebenezer - a Christmas Carol, Titus Andronicus and the world premiere of Germaine Greer's Lysistrata (BAC) I Love You, Your Perfect, Now Change and Liberace's Suit (Jermyn Street) the UK premiere of Victor/Victoria, Shakespeare's Henry VIII, & Brecht's Arturo Ui (the Bridewell) Measure for Measure (Riverside Studios) The Winter's Tale (The Courtyard) Ring Round The Moon and Fings Aint Wot They Used To Be (The Kings Head).
As a writer many of his plays, musicals and adaptations have been published and are regularly produced around the world.
He has written and broadcast on the arts for What’s On Magazine, BBC London Radio and television, Resonance 104.4FM, lastminute.com, Gay Times, Musical Stages Magazine, The Stage and is currently the theatre critic for Attitude Magazine
His website is at www.philwillmott.co.uk
Short Programme Biog 09/10
Phil Willmott has directed over fifty productions around the UK from Shakespeare & musicals to cutting edge new writing at venues such as Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Sheffield Crucible, The National Theatre Studio, Nottingham Playhouse, in the West End and for ten years as an associate artist at B.A.C. He is Artistic Director of his own multi award winning theatre company The Steam Industry (incorporating The Finborough Theatre and The Scoop outdoor amphitheatre on the South Bank) and also works as a broadcaster, arts journalist, playwright, lyricist and composer. He’s been a recipient of a Peter Brook award for innovation and entertaining theatre for his classical and family shows, a T.M.A award for outstanding musical production, a whatsonstage award nomination for best regional production and a Brooks Atkinson/Royal Court award in new York for playwriting.
His website is at www.philwillmott.co.uk
Programme Biog for Pantomime 09/10
Phil Willmott is an accomplished writer and director of pantomimes and family shows across the country including hit productions of Jungle Book, Treasure Island, Cyclops!, The Adventures of Jason at the Argonauts, Snow White, Dick Whitington, Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, A Christmas Carol, Fame, The King and I, The Sound of Music, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Around the World in Eighty Days. He has received a Peter Brook award for innovation and entertaining theatre & a T.M.A award for outstanding musical production and has directed over fifty productions around the UK from Shakespeare & musicals to cutting edge new writing at venues such as Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Sheffield Crucible, The National Theatre Studio, Nottingham Playhouse and for ten years as an associate artist at Battersea Arts Centre. He has been Associate Director of Professional training at the Arts Educational School in London, is Artistic Director of his own multi award winning theatre company The Steam Industry (incorporating The Finborough Theatre and The Scoop outdoor amphitheatre on the South Bank) and also works as a broadcaster, arts journalist, playwright, lyricist and composer. www.philwillmott.co.uk
