Paul Sellar
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Biography
Current work includes an original Radio 4 Drama Series for the BBC.
Recent work includes The Gold Killing, a two part thriller for Radio 4 which was Drama of the Week; And a new untitled stage play written with ACE funding and additional support from The Farnham Maltings and The Jerwood. The Moonflask a BBC Saturday drama for Radio 4 was repeated Easter Saturday 2015. His previous play The Takeover (BBC Radio 3) was nominated for The Prix Europa, Berlin and shortlisted for The Imison Award (2013).
The film version of his stage play 2Graves premiered at the Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel for the EEFF distributed via Trinity Film.
Past commissions have included The National Theatre Studio, BBC Radio Drama, Film 4 and Warp X Films.
Several of his plays have been performed overseas. And in the UK he has had two transfers to London’s West End (The Arts and Trafalgar Studios respectively). His plays have been developed and/or produced at theatres including The Bush, The National Theatre Studio, AJP, Soho Theatre, Live Theatre Newcastle, The Old Vic, BAC and in Edinburgh at theatres including The Assembly Rooms and The Pleasance. Recent work has won a Curtain Call Award in Australia, and a Special Jury Prize at The ITSELF Festival in Warsaw.
The Bedsit is published by Faber and Faber and 2 Graves, The Dead Move Fast, The Man Who Fell Out Of Bed & Worlds End are all published by Oberon Books.
Credits
In Development
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| UNTITLED THEATRE COMMISSION |
Arts council commission (support from Maltings and Jerwood) |
Radio
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
|
HOW TO BUILD A SUPERTOWER 2019 |
BBC Radio 4 |
A new drama series in which self made tycoon Max Silver sets out to build an iconic London skyscraper. |
|
THE GOLD KILLING 2015 |
BBC Radio 4 |
2 x 45′ |
|
THE MOONFLASK 2014 |
BBC Radio 4 |
1 x 60′ |
|
THE TAKEOVER 2012 |
BBC Radio 3 |
1 x 60′ |
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
|
THE AUDIT 2011 |
Itself International Festival. Warsaw |
Prod: Lincoln Company. (Performed in English with Polish Surtitles) |
|
WORLD'S END 2008 |
Pleasance Edinburgh / Trafalgar Studios |
Director: Paul Robinson (Edinburgh) / Guy Retallack (London) |
|
2 GRAVES 2006 |
Pleasance Edinburgh / The Arts |
A young man avenges the death of his father in an East End Underworld. |
|
THE DEAD MOVE FAST 2000 |
Edinburgh Festival |
A comedy thriller set in the twilight world of 1950’s pulp. |
|
THE BEDSIT 1999 |
Tabard Theatre / BAC* / Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh |
A lone gunman awaits his fate in a London Bedsit |
Film
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| THE TAKEOVER | Warp / Film 4 |
Original feature commission for Warp X / Film 4: Caroline Cooper Charles / Robin Gutch |
|
2 GRAVES 2013 |
Trinity Films. Premiere EEFF |
Film adaptation of play |
