Douglas Maxwell

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Film, TV & Theatre

Agent: St John Donald
Assistant: Anthony Joblin

Film, TV & Theatre

Douglas Maxwell has been one of Scotland’s top playwrights since his debut in 2000.  His recent work includes Man’s Best Friend (A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Glasgow) At First I Was Afraid…I Was Petrified! (Wonderfools) and Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland).   Previous plays include I Can Go Anywhere (The Traverse, Edinburgh), Charlie Sonata (The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh) The Whip Hand  (The Traverse/Birmingham Rep), Yer Granny (National Theatre of Scotland) and Fever Dream: Southside (The Citizens, Glasgow). 

His online lockdown work included Beautiful Boy for Pitlochry Festival Theatre, The Assumption for Solar Bear/Royal Conservatoire Scotland and Fatbaws for the National Theatre of Scotland and the BBC.  Fatbaws, directed by and starring Peter Mullan, has been seen by over a million people and was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA.

His many other plays include Decky Does a Bronco, Mancub, Promises Promises (staged in New York as The Promise) and A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity

Translations of his work have been professionally produced in Germany, Norway, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, Holland, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Wales, Japan, France, Belgium and South Korea, where his debut play Our Bad Magnet ran for over ten years.   

His plays are published by Oberon books at Bloomsbury.  His first collection of work focuses on his writing for younger audiences. As well as Decky Does a Bronco and Mancub that volume also contains Too Fast, The Mother Ship and Helmet

Douglas lives on the Southside of Glasgow with his wife and two daughters. 

www.douglasmaxwell.co.uk

 

 

Drama

ProductionCompanyNotes
2021

National Theatre of Scotland/BBC Scotland

Directed by Peter Mullan - adaption of theatre show.

Radio

ProductionCompanyNotes
2020

BBC Radio Scotland

Directed by Kirsty Williams

Theatre

ProductionCompanyNotes
2002

Edinburgh International Festival/Grid Iron

Directed by Ben Harrison

BEYOND

2006

East Glasgow Youth Theatre

With Nicola McCartney

HARM

2006

Sweetscar

THE SHADOW OF A PIE

2007

Lung Ha Theatre Company

Directed by Clark Crystal

THE BALLAD OF JAMES II

2007

Nonsense Rooms

BOOKIE

2010

Citizens Theatre/Cumbernauld Theatre

With Music by Aly MacRae
Directed by Ed Robson

PROM

2011

Dundee Rep

WATERTIGHT

2011

Royal Conservatoire Scotland

With Richard Taylor

NEWS JUST IN

2014

Random Accomplice/The Arches, Glasgow

Directed by Johnny McKnight

162 BARS OUT

2012

National Theatre of Scotland

With Claire McKenzie

2011

Lung Ha Theatre Company

Adaptation from Jules Verne

HEARTFELT

2011

Dundee Rep/National Theatre of Scotland

THE SHERIFF OF KALAMAKI

2023

A Play, A Pie and A Pint

Directed by Jemima Levick.

2022

National Theatre of Scotland

Based on the Film ORPHANS written and directed by Peter Mullan © Channel Four Television Corporation and the Glasgow Film Fund 1997.

2022

A Play, A Pie and a Pint

Directed by Jemima Levick.

AT FIRST I WAS AFRAID... I WAS PATRIFIED!

2021

Wonderfools/Traverse Theatre, Scotland

FATBAWS

2021

National Theatre of Scotland/BBC Scotland

Directed by Peter Mullan

THE ASSUMPTION

2020

Solar Bear/Royal Conservatoire, Scotland

BUILD YOUR OWN UTOPIA

2020

University of Central Lancashire

Written with Richard Taylor: New & Original British musical.

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

2019

Northern Stage, Newcastle

Directed by Jake Smith

2019

Traverse Theatre

Directed by Eve Nicol.

2017

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Directed by Tessa Walker.

2017

Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh

Directed by Matthew Lenton

THE CADDIE

2016

Royal Conservatoire Scotland

2016

Lung Ha Theatre Company

Directed by Maria Oller.

FEVER DREAM: SOUTHSIDE

2015

The Citizens, Glasgow

Directed by Dominic Hill

YER GRANNY

2015

The National Theatre of Scotland

(an adaption of La Nona by Roberto Cossa). Directed by Graham McLaren

A RESPECTABLE WIDOW TAKES TO VULGARITY

2012

Traverse Theatre and Oran Mor

Directed by Orla O’Laughlin

SMALL TOWN

2011

Random Accomplice

Written with DC Jackson and Johnny McKnight

PROMISES PROMISES

2010

Random Accomplice

TOO FAST

2010

NT Connections Commission

THE BOOKIE

2010

Cumbernauld

A Musical

DECKY DOES A BRONCO

2010

Gridiron

Revival in 2010 for the Ten year anniversary

THE MIRACLE MAN

2010

The National Theatre of Scotland

One of the first ever commissions for The National Theatre of Scotland, entitled The Miracle Man.
Production at the National Theatre Scotland in Spring 2010, Dir: Vicky Featherstone

FEVER DREAM: SOUTHSIDE

2009

RSAMD/Playwrights' studio

THE MOTHER SHIP

2008

Birmingham Rep

Winner of the Brian Way Award 2009

MELODY

2006

Co-production with the Traverse and the Tron Theatre

SPRING AWAKENING

2005

Gridiron

A version of Wedeking’s play
Directed by Ben Harrison

THE BACKPACKER BLUES

2005

Oran Mor Theatre, Glasgow

Directed by Tony Cownie.

MANCUB

2005

Co-production with Vanishing Point and Soho Theatre National Tour

Adaptation of FLIGHT OF THE CASSOWARY by John LeVert
Matthew Lenton

IF DESTROYED TRUE

2005

Co-production with Paines Plough and Dundee Rep

Chocolate Mernier Factory
John Tiffany
Shortlisted for Best Production in the Critics Award, Scotland 2005

HELMET

2002

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh / Paines Plough

UK Tour and three weeks at Soho Theatre, London. HELMET is taught in many schools with a video and text book published by English Media Co.
John Tiffany
Shortlisted for Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best Fringe Show

OUR BAD MAGNET

2000

Tron Theatre, Glasgow / Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh

Revived in 2001 as a co-production with Borderline followed by large scale tour of Scotland.
Jim Twaddale

DECKY DOES A BRONCO

2001

Gridiron/ Almeida

1st performed – Edinburgh Festival 2000
Tour: England, Ireland, Northern Ireland & Scotland – 2001
Ben Harrison
Winner – The Stage Award for Ensemble Acting
Winner- Fringe First