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Name
  
April Angelis

Role
  
Dramatist


Education
  
University of Sussex

Plays
  
Jumpy

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Nominations
  
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play

Books
  
Playhouse creatures, After Electra, The Positive Hour, A Warwickshire testimony, A Laughing Matter

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April De Angelis (born c.1960) is an English dramatist of part Sicilian descent. She is a graduate of Sussex University who trained at East 15 Acting School.

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De Angelis began her career in the 1980s as an actress with the Monstrous Regiment theatre company.

In 1987, her play Breathless was a prize winner at the 1987 Second Wave Young Women's Writing Festival.

Her plays often feature historical figures. Playhouse Creatures and A Laughing Matter are set in the London theatrical milieu of the 17th and 18th centuries respectively. Wanderlust examines Victorian colonialism and Ironmistress is a verse play exploring Lady Charlotte Guest's factory ownership.

As a librettist, De Angelis contributed to the opera The Silent Twins (2007), composed by Errollyn Wallen, which is based on the case of June and Jennifer Gibbons.

De Angelis tends to write to commission and several of her plays have been produced by Max Stafford-Clark's Out of Joint theatre company.

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Plays

  • Breathless (1987)
  • Women in Law (1988)
  • Wanderlust (1988, Oval House Theatre Women's Workshop)
  • Visitants (1988)
  • Ironmistress (1989, Young Vic Theatre)
  • Crux (1989, Paines Plough)
  • Frankenstein (1989)
  • The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (1991, Red Shift Theatre Company)
  • Hush (1992, Royal Court Theatre)
  • Greed (1993)
  • Soft Vengeance (1993) (from the book by Albie Sachs)
  • Playhouse Creatures (Haymarket Theatre 1993)
  • The Positive Hour (1997, Out of Joint theatre company / Hampstead Theatre)
  • A Warwickshire Testimony (1999, Royal Shakespeare Company)
  • A Laughing Matter (2002, Out of Joint theatre company)
  • Headstrong (2004, Royal National Theatre Shell Connections)
  • Wild East (2005, Royal Court Theatre)
  • Catch (with Stella Feehily, Tanika Gupta, Chloe Moss and Laura Wade) (2007, Royal Court Theatre)
  • Wuthering Heights (2008) (From the book by Emily Brontë)
  • Jumpy (2011)
  • After Electra (2015)
  • Libretti

  • Pig
  • Flight
  • Silent Twins (2007)
  • References

    April De Angelis Wikipedia