Name Simon Jackson Role Playwright | Books The Rose Garden | |
Education North Carolina State University | ||
Simon jackson spirit bear youth coalition founder
Simon Jackson is a British playwright, filmmaker and poet, born in Manchester, UK. His plays deal with themes of redemptive love, the trauma of creation and the peeling back of layers to reveal the truth. The plays often exist in a dream like space between reality and fantasy and are characterised by poetic language and rich imagery.
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- Simon jackson spirit bear youth coalition founder
- Simon jackson
- Life
- Theatre
- Selected plays
- Poetry and short stories
- Film
- References
Simon jackson
Life
Born in Manchester, Jackson studied Literature and Commercial Art at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, USA and Drama at Manchester University. He was later awarded an MA (Distinction) in Textual Analysis and Creative Writing at Edinburgh University.
He was director of Living Arts Space Theatre Company, Manchester, from 1992 until 1995. He co-wrote a series of training films for Reuters International and a series of radio plays for French children learning English then left to teach in Eastern Europe, North Africa and South America. In 1998 he became the academic advisor to Heinemann/Macmillan, for Peru and was Head of Drama at Newton International College, Lima from 1998 to 2001.
Theatre
Jackson has had more than twenty plays performed.
Selected plays
For more details of performed plays see The Playwrights Database at http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsJ/jackson-simon.html
Poetry and short stories
Jackson’s poetry and short stories have been translated into Dutch, French, Japanese, Serbian and Spanish and widely published in anthologies and literary magazines in Britain and overseas
He has been the winner of several literary competitions, including the Malton Literature Festival Poetry Award 2011, Ware Poets Sonnet Prize 2011, Segora Poetry Prize 2010/11, The Writers Bureau Poetry Competition 2010, Grace Dieux Writers' Prize 2009 and Tyne Valley Writers Open Poetry Competition in 1997. He was the judge for the Grace Dieu Award 2010
A collection entitled Fragile Cargo will be published by BeWrite Publishing in spring 2012.
Film
In the 1990s Jackson co-wrote a series of training films for Reuters International with Reuters Training Editor, George Short. Since then he has specialised in short films, often using stop motion animation, winning the Special Jury Award in Cameo Cinema's Love is Hell festival (2007) and both the Audience Award and Best Screenplay Award in Edinburgh's 48 Hour Film Festival. Jackson composes the music for all his films and radio plays and won Best Soundtrack in Edinburgh's 2011 48 Hour Film Festival
Other short films include work for Billy Bragg's Jail Guitar Doors charity and collaborations with Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly and with Scottish poets and artists Brian McCabe, Andrew Greig, Ali Hayes and Aonghas MacNeacail, shown by the BBC, at the UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico and at Film and Literary Festivals around the world.
He was invited to write a series of treatments for Transporter 2 (2004) by Jason Statham. Although the treatments were not used he has recently finished a full length screenplay for a new Statham project.