Occupation Screenwriter Education Unity College, Burnley Role Musician | Name Alice Nutter Nationality British | |
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Born 10 July 1962 (age 61)
Burnley, Lancashire, England ( 1962-07-10 ) Albums Tubthumper, Slap!, English Rebel Songs 13, Pictures of Starving Children, Never Mind the Ballots Similar People Danbert Nobacon, Lou Watts, Dunstan Bruce, Boff Whalley | ||
Music group Chumbawamba (1982 – 2004) | ||
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Alice Nutter (born 10 July 1962) is a British musician and writer.
She was born in Burnley, Lancashire and attended Towneley High School.
Nutter joined the anarchist music group Chumbawamba in 1982, not long after the band formed, and took up residence in their squat in Armley. With her music and politics closely integrated, Nutter picketed during the 1984-85 miners' strike and the 1986 Wapping dispute. In 1998, the band had an international hit with their song Tubthumping, on which Nutter was a vocalist. She performed with the band on numerous international television shows and at the 1998 BRIT Awards. Nutter left Chumbawamba in 2006 to start a new career as a playwright. In 2012, she returned to the band for "Going Going", their final live performance at the Leeds City Varieties.
Nutter is currently a scriptwriter for theatre, radio and TV. Her theatre work includes Foxes (2006) at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Where's Vietnam? (2008) for Red Ladder Theatre Company at West Yorkshire Playhouse. Her radio work includes the afternoon play Snow In July (2008) for Radio 4 and the play My Generation (2012) for Radio 3. In 2013, My Generation was brought to the West Yorkshire Playhouse by its artistic director James Brining in the first full-scale, main-stage production of Nutter's work. In 2016, the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds staged Nutter's play the Barnbow Canaries about women munition workers in Barnbow, Leeds, during the First World War. The factory the women were working in exploded one day in December 1915 and killed 35 and injured many more.
For television, Nutter has written an episode of Jimmy McGovern's series The Street (2007) and an episode of Casualty (2009). She has also written an episode of Moving On and an episode of Jimmy McGovern's series, The Accused. she has also written an episode of The Mill. She has written a biographical drama based on the life of the Mancunian comedian Bernard Manning, but cuts to the BBC4 budget led to the piece never being filmed.
In March 2014 Spanner Films announced that Nutter will be one of the writers for Undercovers, a television drama series about the undercover police officers who infiltrated the British activist scene for 50 years, and the women who unknowingly had longterm relationships and even children with the spies. The series is also being written by Simon Beaufoy, and was produced by Tony Garnett.