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GILES COLE
Playwright/Producer/Actor
Giles trained as an actor at the Webber-Douglas Academy in London and worked in regional and West End theatre, radio and TV. He has written seven plays for BBC Radio 4 (Afternoon Play). Recent stage plays include THE ART OF CONCEALMENT - a full-length drama about Terence Rattigan that played at Jermyn Street Theatre and Riverside Studios and is published by Oberon.
Giles was an off-West End reviewer for Whatsonstage for five years and has completed a postgraduate MA in CREATIVE WRITING: PLAYS AND SCREENPLAYS (City University) graduating with distinction. He has twice won the Sussex Playwrights Play Competition.
Giles is a member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain and has served on its Theatre Committee and he is a former Chairman of the theatre judging panel for the Writers’ Guild Awards.
He is a director of theatre company Close Quarter Productions with Alexander Marshall and has also worked as a writer and producer for corporate events and awards ceremonies.
| Nationality: | British |
| Bases: | West Sussex, London |
| Links: | Giles Cole Website |
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| Author - ALLIANCE (in development) www.alliancetheplay.com |
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| Author - THE LOVES OF IDA RUBENSTEIN (in development) |
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| Author - WHEN LOVE GROWS OLD (The Romance Of The Century/The Weatherman Brighton Festival |
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| Author - THE HEART OF THINGS Jermyn Street Theatre/Close Quarter Productions |
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| Author - THE ART OF CONCEALMENT Jermyn Street Theatre/Riverside Studios |
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| Author - FRAIL BLOOD Brighton Festival |
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| Author - SUSPECTS Grand Theatre Swansea/Present Productions |
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| Author - MEETING DANGEROUS MEN Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Outlook Theatre |
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| Author - SECRETS King’s Head Theatre |
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| Author - BENEVOLENCE or THE ANTIQUARIAN Pubished by: New Theatre Publications (2002) |
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| Author - LIVING WITH LINDA Elephant Theatre/Kings Head Theatre |
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| Author - BECK Spice of Life/Kings Head |
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| Author - WILDERNESS MAN Redgrave Theatre Farnham/Theatreaction |
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| Author - OLD SCHOOLBOYS Croydon Warehouse Theatre |
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| Author - ANCESTORS (1975) BBC R4 |
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| Author - KENDRICK’S LAST STAND (1978) BBC R4 |
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| Author - TEA AND BINGO BBC R4 |
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| Author - SHADOW IN THE MOUTH (1983) BBC R4 |