Neil Edwards

Experience

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  Regent Theatre

  Feb 2012 - Jul 2012

  Lead Scriptwriter & Co-project Manager

  In July 2012 I served as the Lead Scriptwriter & Co-Project Manager for the inaugural Bertarelli Creative Minds Festival at The Regent Theatre in Stoke. This required me to script six short (15min) playlets and four short (10min) film scripts for presentation during Festival Week, working alongside various schools and community groups, many of them quite challenging

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  Shooting Fish TC

  Jan 2014 - now

  Writer and dramatist

  Since January 2014 I have worked as an Associate Artist for Shooting Fish Theatre Co. in Lincoln. With my Lead Writer's head on, I have devised and written ten new plays for stage, one radio play, and a film, with students from the CLIP Learning Foundry. The first two plays, 'Spanish for Beginners' and 'Arabeska', opened at Trinity Arts Centre in July 2014, with 'Flutterby' and 'Back Story' following in February, 2015. With Children in Need awarding an additional £100,000 in Autumn 2019, the project stepped up a gear with three further projects being guaranteed funding, leading us through to 2022. The Victorian thriller, 'The Murderess' opened to astonishing reviews, and a national tour was quickly booked in - to be felled only by the intervention of Covid-19. 2020, however saw us produce the Holocaust-set radio drama, 'The Camp' and the short film, 'An Exploded View' exploring Grantham's rich engineering past. This film, to be screened as part of the Gravity Fields Festival, features illustrations by the renowned artist, Laura Barrett Show less

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  Story Terrace

  Jun 2015 - now

  Freelance Writer

  In June 2015 I was invited to join the prestigious fleet of writers that comprise the Story Terrace team, who were just in the process of launching their London office. Two months later I was tasked with ghost-writing the memoirs of a 79-year-old lady from County Laois, whose early life had been mired in abuse and neglect. The resultant book, 'Mary Full of Grace', was published in January 2016, and led to a feature article appearing in The Sunday Express's S-Magazine (06/03/16) under the title: 'Memoirs of a childhood abuse victim'. A second book, 'A Harsh Lesson for Miss Put-Upon', concerning the tragic early childhood experiences of a soon-to-retire District Nurse, was published in October 2016. This was followed, in 2019, with the publication of 'The View Through the Valley', a biography of the National Trust's ex-Head Ranger, covering the 32-years he spent in charge of the Lake District's Western Valleys. Books four and five are to be published in 2021, their titles: 'Life at the End of the Tunnel' and 'Over Stones and Mountains'. Show less

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  Liverpool John Moores University

  Dec 2015 - Jul 2016

  Playwright / Researcher

  For six months I was engaged in the process of writing a new play for stage, inspired by the experiences of various members of Liverpool's LGBTQ youth community. The play, "The Assumption Gown", was used to serve as an intervention in schools to gauge the current level of acceptance and tolerability of young people in relation to members of the wider LGBTQ community. Data collected from the play was used in the presentation: 'From Fact To Fiction - Reducing the Adverse Impact of Homonegativity Among Adolescents Through Real-Life Drama' at the 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology in Warsaw, Poland in July 2016. Show less