CRAIG BAXTER

Craig’s work for the stage includes St James and the Tattoo Man (Old Red Lion), Taking Liberties (Cambridge Drama Centre), three millennial community plays (Big Bang, Relics and Spearcarriers) for Barking and Dagenham (Arc Theatre Company; Broadway Theatre, Barking), The Animals (Pursued by a Bear; Dublin Theatre Festival), Monogamy (Pursued by a Bear; Bridewell), an Antarctic installation White Canary (Pursued by a Bear-British Antarctic Survey; Cambridge Drama Centre), The Ministry of Pleasure (Shadow of an Eye; Theatre503), Hard Sell (Menagerie; Pleasance), Re:Design (commissioned by the Darwin Correspondence Project; UK and North American tour), Let Newton Be! (Commissioned by the Faraday Institute; UK and North American tour), an adaptation of The CV of Aurora Ortiz (Classworks; UK tour), Giant Steps (Gravity Fields Festival), Somniloquy (Menagerie; Theatre503), Shorts: Missing Mass, Signor Castiglioni, The Apologist, Mary Mary, The Divided House (Menagerie; Hotbed Festival) and Lady Anna: All at Sea (Commissioned by the Trollope Society; Park Theatre)

He has worked on numerous corporate and educational scripts

He has written three dramas for BBC radio: The Thrill of the Chaste, Monogamy and Like Confessing a Murder and acted as a script consultant on BBC TV drama documentaries Crimewatch File and Trail of Guilt

Publications

Big Bang is published by ARC Theatre books, The Ministry of Pleasure by Oberon Books and Let Newton Be! by Faraday Publishing

Awards

Taking Liberties was shortlisted for the Allied Domecq playwright award and The Altruists won the 4th Stage International Script Competition for plays about science or technology