CRAIG BAXTER
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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), Giant Steps (Gravity Fields Festival), Somniloquy (Menagerie; Theatre503).
Short plays include: Missing Mass, Signor Castiglioni, The Apologist, Mary Mary, The Divided House, Pictures of You, Jigsaw Pieces (Menagerie; Hotbed Festival). |
Stage adaptations include The CV of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana and The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls (Classworks) and The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson.
His play based on Anthony Trollope’s novel Lady Anna: All at Sea was commissioned by the Trollope Society and produced at the Park Theatre and on a Number 1 Tour by the Production Exchange.
He has written the book for two musicals: Cold Moon Rising with Adam Megiddo (Jermyn Street Theatre) and The Little Big Band with Dan Ecclestone (Netherhall School, Cambridge).
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 writer and script consultant on TV drama documentaries Crimewatch File and Trail of Guilt (BBC) and Eight Days That Made Rome (October Films, Channel 5).
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.
His play based on Anthony Trollope’s novel Lady Anna: All at Sea was commissioned by the Trollope Society and produced at the Park Theatre and on a Number 1 Tour by the Production Exchange.
He has written the book for two musicals: Cold Moon Rising with Adam Megiddo (Jermyn Street Theatre) and The Little Big Band with Dan Ecclestone (Netherhall School, Cambridge).
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 writer and script consultant on TV drama documentaries Crimewatch File and Trail of Guilt (BBC) and Eight Days That Made Rome (October Films, Channel 5).
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.
