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 www.jeplays.com was created by Jonathan Edgington to promote his plays and play related projects.
About Jonathan's plays Jonathan started writing in 2007 and achieved success with his first play Three Nil Down At Half Time (winner of the 2007 All Ireland Gaelic Language Schools Drama Festival in Dublin). Since then he has written several more short plays including Babies (a runner-up in the Pint Sized Plays 2009 play writing competition), Dating (a winner of the Chesil Theatre's 2010 play writing competition), Gone (one of the winning entries in Live Theatre's prestigious MILLION SHORT CUTS 2010 play writing competition) and Herbie (a winner of the Chesil Theatre's 2012 play writing competition). Jonathan has also contributed to the very successful collections of short plays for schools & youth theatres Emotions and Emotions 2. His collection of short plays about relationships Woody Allen's Shark recently reached No. 1 in the Stage & Theatre section of the Amazon Kindle free downloads chart. Published Plays provides details of all Jonathan's plays and how to obtain licences to perform them. By way of a change, Jonathan is currently having a go at writing a full length play. He'd like to write more but the day job, family and tennis seem to occupy most of his time at present! About Jonathan Jonathan is a former member of the Nuffield Theatre Writers’ Group in Southampton led by John Burgess, a director with the National Theatre. Past members of the group include the late Kate Betts, who won Channel 4’s The Play’s the Thing (televised in June 2006), Deborah Gearing, whose debut play Burn was performed at the National Theatre, Maggie Neville and others who have gone on to write for stage, radio and TV. Jonathan is a member of the Chesil Theatre in Winchester where he was last seen on stage as the hapless Mr Purdue in the Chesil’s award winning production of Habeas Corpus. He assisted Platform 4 with the development of their 2009 production of The Tempest. Jonathan is listed on the Doollee database of modern playwrights and is a member of New Writing South. twitter Follow Jonathan on Twitter. |