Dexter Flanders

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Film, TV & Theatre

Assistant: Nacho Martin

Film, TV & Theatre

Dexter trained at RADA as an Actor. He is now writing with a particular focus on stories of the unvoiced.

In 2018 FOXES was a finalist for the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play of the Year. It received its world premiere at London's Theatre503 in 2021, transferred to Seven Dials Playhouse in 2022 in London's West End and then onto New York in 2023 at 59E59 as part of their Brits off Broadway season. The playtext is published by Methuen.

In 2019 Dexter was chosen to participate in the Royal Court Theatre's Introduction to Playwriting Group. In 2021 Dexter was announced as one of five recipients of a new Screenwriting Bursary from Neal Street Productions and has written a pilot for them. In 2022 Dexter was chosen to participate in Hampstead Theatre's Inspire group and is writing a full length play for the. He is also writing plays for Soho Theatre and Synergy.

Dexter is currently writing a feature film for Joi Productions and is developing a TV series with Happy Prince.

In 2023 Dexter's pilot FOXES, adapted from his play, made it onto the Brit List.  

For acting enquiries please contact Nick Errington at Grantham & Hazeldine.

In Development

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UNTITLED COMMISSION

Synergy

Play commission

UNTITLED COMMISSION

Soho Theatre

Play commission

FOXES

Happy Prince

TV adaptation of his play

TESTIMONY

Neal Street Productions

New pilot commission

BACK TO THE ENDZ

Joi Productions

Feature film now at script stage

Theatre

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THE ARCHITECT

2023

ATC / Greenwich + Docklands International Festival

As co-writer - in association with the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation

FOXES

2022

Defibrillator Theatre / Seven Dials Playhouse

Dir. James Hillier

FOXES

2021

Defibrillator Theatre / Theatre503 / Theatre Peckham

Dir. James Hillier
*Shortlisted Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play of the Year 2018

Short Films

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VENUS FLYTRAP

2020

RADA

Dexter has been commissioned to write a Short Film for RADA's final year students

Other

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WRITERS ROOM

2022

Gaumont / Netflix

Writers room on animated series

SHUT UP AND DANCE

2021

Sky

Writersroom for a TV series with Sky
Script commission 1 x 30'

FOXES

★ ★ ★ ★ 

Gary Naylor, Broadway World

“Foxes provides a voice to a community too often marginalised by theatre and demonstrates that the stories that emerge as a result have a universal resonance. More please.”

 

★ ★ ★ ★ 

Simon Button, Attitude

“Perfectly paced by director James Hillier across its three acts and Flanders’ script is superb”

 

★ ★ ★ ★ 

Kate Wyver, The Guardian

“Shattering tale of faith and family - Dexter Flanders’ tender debut about a fractured family shows the tensions and compromises faced by Black gay men”

 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Richard Beck, Broadway Baby

Everything works together in this stunning production to create a groundbreaking theatrical triumph.”

 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

Lily Middleton, Everything Theatre

“Foxes is a powerful and emotional play with a voice that deserves to be heard.”

 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

Jane Darcy, Reviews Hub

“Mesmerising coming-out drama”