Chris Lee

Writer

Biography

Plays include: Hummingbird (Old Red Lion, London) 1996, The Optimist’s Daughters (Finborough, London) 1997, Sneer (Finborough, London) 1998, Eat the Enemy (Old Red Lion, London and TheaterLab, Houston) 1999, The Electrocution of Children (Peacock, Dublin) 1998, The Map Maker’s Sorrow (Peacock, Dublin) 1999 (Eklektisk, Copenhagen) 2009 (Theater Row, New York) 2005 (Lavoir Parisien and Theatre du Chaudron, Paris) 2006, On line and Paranoid in the Sentimental City (Finborough, London) 2000, Vermilion Dream (Salisbury Playhouse) 2004, The Ash Boy (Theatre 503, London) 2006, The Water Harvest (Theatre 503, London) 2007 (South London Theatre) 2021, Regolith (Finborough, London) 2010, The Foundation of Trust (Rondo Theatre, Bath) 2011, Zozo (Stendhal University, Grenoble) 2011, Shallow Slumber (Soho Theatre, London and National Institute for Dramatic Arts, Sydney) 2012, Dream on Hilda (Municipal Theatre, Stockholm) 2014, A Small House at the Edge of the World (Tabard, London) 2019 (Museum of Comedy, London) 2019.

Radio plays include: The Parallax of Jan Van Eyck (RTE, 1998), Holborn (Urban Scrawl) 2009.

Awards include: The Stewart Parker Award, 1999, for The Electrocution of Children, Anglo Irish Bank Writer in Association with The Abbey Theatre, 1999/2000, Pearson Television Playwrights Bursary, 2000, for Online and Paranoid, Rondo New Play Competition winner 2011, for The Foundation of Trust.

Podcast ongoing: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/soft-tales-for-the-hard-apocalypse/id1549460057

Credits

Radio

Production Company Notes
THE PARALLAX OF JAN VAN EYCK
1996
RTE

Theatre

Production Company Notes
A SMALL HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
2018
Tabard Theatre Chiswick

Directed by Ken McClymont

DREAM ON HILDA
2014
Staatstheater Stockholm
SHALLOW SLUMBER
2011
Supporting Wall / Soho Theatre Upstairs

Directed by Mary Nighy
Published by Methuen

AND NOW FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
2011
The Horse, London

15 minute play as part of April Showers

ZOZO
2011
Stendhal University, Grenbole, France
THE FOUNDATION OF TRUST
2011
The Rondo Theatre, Bath

* Winner of The Rondo Theatre playwrighting competition 2011

THE WATER HARVEST
2007
Theatre 503

Directed by Elizabeth Freestone

THE ASH BOY
2006
Theatre 503

Directed by Gene David Kirk

VERMILION DREAM
2004
Salisbury Playhouse

Directed by Nina Raine

ONLINE AND PARANOID IN THE SENTIMENTAL CITY
2000
Finborough Theatre
THE MAP MAKER'S SORROW
1999
Peacock Theatre, Dublin
THE ELECTROCUTION OF CHILDREN
1998
Peacock Theatre, Dublin

Stewart Parker New Playwright’s Award

THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER
1997
Finborough Theatre
HUMMINGBIRD
1996
Old Red Lion Theatre
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