PETER DARNEY

Peter is an exciting, up-and-coming Welsh writer and theatre director.

His play 5 GUYS CHILLIN’ was named one of “Ten Plays That Shaped Queer Theatre History” in the Evening Standard. It won Best LGBT Play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as previously winning a Brighton Fringe Award for LGBTQ Theatre and 2 Dublin International Gay Theatre festival awards, and won the Boyz Scene Award for Best London Play. It had a combined run of 6 months at the Kings Head Theatre in London and transferred Off Broadway to SoHo Playhouse. It has since been published by Oberon Books, and licensed in Australia and Canada and translated into Czech, Hebrew, and French for a run in Paris in 2019. He is currently developing a film adaptation and has recently been awarded funding from the BFI and Ffilm Cymru to write the script. Peter also has a project under option to Fulwell 73. He has most recently been commissioned by Fulwell 73 and Empty Room Productions to co-write a feature film with Eve Myles.

Peter directed Sasha Ellen’s SIGNAL FAILURE for a 6-week run at Soho Playhouse-Off Broadway, KINDNESS for BBC Radio 4 (The Independent’s Pick of the Week) and FRANK SENT ME which ran at Soho Theatre, The Underbelly and Theatre 503. Most recently he has directed KOMPROMAT by David Thame for the Vault Festival 2019.

Peter holds an MA in Theatre Directing from St Mary’s University College, and previously trained as an actor at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and was recipient of the prestigious BBC Carleton Hobbs Award.

Most recently Peter was selected for this year’s BFI Network X BAFTA Crew and became an Associate Artist of the King’s Head Theatre.

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FILM

PRODUCTION COMPANY NOTES

UNTITLED (2020-21) Fulwell 73 / Empty Room Commissioned to co-write a Productions feature film with Eve Myles

CLAPHAM TRASHBAG (2019-20) Ffilm Cymru BFI Successful recipient of funding to write feature adaptation of his award winning play 5 GUYS CHILLIN'

UNTITLED (2018-20) Fulwell 73 Script under option for a feature adaptation

THEATRE - DIRECTING CREDITS

PRODUCTION COMPANY NOTES

KOMPROMAT (2019) Em-Lou Productions Vault Festival 2019

HIGH RIDIN' (2018) Em-Lou Productions King's Head Theatre, 4-week run

FREE AND PROUD (2018) Em-Lou Productions/Snowy Owl Theatre 503, London & Assembly George Square Studios, Edinburgh

Suite 2.1, 32 Tavistock Street, London, WC2E 7PB + 44 (0)20 3848 1411 [email protected] www.gemmhirst.co.uk JAMES DEAN IS DEAD! (LONG LIVE Em-Lou Productions The Warren, Brighton Fringe, JAMES DEAN) (2018) King's Head Theatre, London & C- Venues, Edinburgh

MEMORARE (2018) Beautiful Soup Theater Collective St. John's Lutheran Church, New York. World Premiere.

MOONDIAL (2017) Em-Lou Productions The Warren, Brighton Fringe

THE DRAG (2017) The Arcola Theatre

5 GUYS CHILLIN' (2016-7) Em-Lou Productions/King's Head The Kings Head Theatre, SoHo Theatre Playhouse (Off Broadway) Otherplace, (Brighton) Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival

QUEERS (2017) Em-Lou Productions/Dragonflies The King’s Head Theatre, Players Theatre Theatre Dublin

REVENGER'S TRAGEDY (2015) Em-Lou Productions The Rose Playhouse

PINOCCHIO (2015) Sutton Theatres The Secombe Theatre

SIGNAL FAILURE (2014) Soho Playhouse Off-Broadway, New York. 6 week run

FRANK SENT ME (2014) Em-Lou Productions Theatre 503, London & The Udderbelly, Edinburgh

GITHA (2012-13) The Flanagan Collective St James Theatre, London & Royal

6 DEGREES (2012) Writer's Avenue Soho Theatre Mainhouse

FRANK SENT ME (2012) Writer's Avenue Soho Theatre Upstairs

MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2011) Em-Lou Productions The Drill Hall, London, The Guilded Balloon, Edinburgh, The Teachers Club, Dublin

EDWARD II (2011) Em-Lou Productions The Rose

GRACE AND THE ANGEL (2009) LIPA LIPA

ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM (2010) Em-Lou Productions The Rose

THE UNTHINKABLE (2009) Hobnob Theatre Co. The Space

BEAUTIFUL THING (2008) Em-Lou Productions Battersea Arts Centre

THEATRE - WRITING CREDITS

PRODUCTION COMPANY NOTES

A TIDY BOY (2019) The Gwyn Hall Directed by Catherine Paskell Wales Millennium Centre, Jermyn Street Theatre Supported by Arts Council Wales, the National Lottery and the Welsh Government

MOONDIAL (2017) Em-Lou Productions The Warren, Brighton Fringe. Stage adaptation of Helen Cresswell's novel.

THE DRAG (2017) The Arcola Theatre Adaptation of Mae West's play

Suite 2.1, 32 Tavistock Street, London, WC2E 7PB + 44 (0)20 3848 1411 [email protected] www.gemmhirst.co.uk SAM PEEPS (2017) Focus For Life Stratford Circus. Co-written modern day adaptation of Samuel Pepys’ diaries.

5 GUYS CHILLIN' (2016-17) Em-Lou Productions/King's Head SoHo Playhouse (Off Broadway), Theatre The Kings Head Theatre, Otherplace (Brighton), Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival, New Theatre Sydney, Kensington Hall Toronto. *Scottish Sun: Best LGBT production, Edinburg Fringe Festival winner* *Brighton Fringe Award for Best LGBT play winner* *Doric Wilson Intercultural Dialogue Award winner* *Boyz Award, Best LGBT Play of the Year winner*

REVENGER'S TRAGEDY (2015) Em-Lou Productions The Rose Playhouse. Adaptation of Thomas Middleton's play.

RADIO/AUDIO

PRODUCTION COMPANY NOTES

UNTITLED NEW PROJECT (2019) Audible Part of writersroom team for development of a new continuing audio drama series.

KINDNESS (2014) BBC Radio 4 Directed radio play by Julian Poidevin. *The Telegraph 'Pick of the Week'

SHORT FILM

PRODUCTION COMPANY NOTES

ROSE PANDEMIC (2020) Microshort Films Screenwriter Dir. Daisy Lewis Starring Patricia Hodge *Winner Best Drama - Horsham Film Festival *Selection - Copper Coast International Film Festival

THE SUPERNATURAL PROPOSAL COLONEL FILMS Director and Co-Writer (2015)

Suite 2.1, 32 Tavistock Street, London, WC2E 7PB + 44 (0)20 3848 1411 [email protected] www.gemmhirst.co.uk