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Name
  
Amanda Whittington

Role
  
Playwright

Plays
  
Be My Baby


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Books
  
The Thrill of Love (NHB Mo, Ladies Down Under, Satin 'n' Steel, The Dug Out, Amateur Girl

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Amanda Whittington (born 1968 in Nottingham) is an English playwright. After leaving school, she worked as a freelance journalist for a variety of publications and was a columnist for the Nottingham Evening Post. In 2001, she won the Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award for Bollywood Jane, a work which she later adapted for stage. She has also written three youth theatre plays and a stage adaptation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (2006). As of 2013, she is chair of the Writers' Guild Theatre Committee.

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Stage plays

  • Be My Baby (1998)
  • The Wills's Girls (2002) (Show of Strength Theatre Company/BBC Radio Four)
  • Bollywood Jane (2003) (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester)
  • Satin 'n' Steel (2005) (Nottingham Playhouse/Octagon Theatre, Bolton)
  • Ladies Day (2005) (Hull Truck Theatre)
  • Ladies Down Under (2007) (Hull Truck Theatre)
  • Tipping the Velvet (2009) (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
  • Amateur Girl (2009) (Hull Truck Theatre)
  • The Thrill Of Love (2013) (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme)
  • The Boy on the Hill (New Perspectives)
  • Mighty Atoms (to be premiered in 2017 as part of Hull's UK City of Culture celebrations).

    • A trilogy of plays written in collaboration with John Cheetham:

  • Runaway Girl
  • Twist And Shout
  • Shirley's Song

    • Radio plays

  • Last Stop Louisa's (2003) (BBC Radio 4)
  • Once Upon A Time (2004) (Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4)
  • The Road To Abolition (2007) (BBC Radio 3)
  • The Nine Days Queen (2009) (BBC Radio 4)
  • Paradise Place (2010) (Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4)

    • References

    Amanda Whittington Wikipedia
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