Gillian Plowman

Gillian Plowman won the Verity Bargate award in 1988 with ME AND MY FRIEND, a poignantly funny play about the release of four patients from a psychiatric hospital into the community. It was first produced at the Soho Poly Theatre in 1990 and at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1992, directed by Ian Rickson.
THE PURITY GAME formed part of the opening season of Chichester’s Minerva Theatre in 1989. STORM was produced in Hastings and London’s Soho theatre by Freehand Theatre Company in 2000/01.
Radio plays for the BBC include: THE WOODEN PEAR in 1991 starring Anna Massey; PHILIP AND ROWENA in 1993 with Leslie Phillips and Renee Asherson; A SEA CHANGE in 1995 with Jenny Funnell and DAVID’S BIRTHDAY in 2000 with Amanda Root and Clare Holman. A film script – DAISYWORLD – was commissioned by Paramount Pictures.
BONIFACE AND ME, a radio version of YOURS ABUNDANTLY FROM ZIMBABWE was broadcast in December 2007, featuring Harriet Walter. Its successor, LOVENESS AND ME, was broadcast on BBC R4 on 10 August 2012, again, featuring Harriet Walter.
In 1996, Gillian’s play PADLOCKED formed part of the Etcetera Theatre’s One-Person Play Festival and IMAGINE IMOGEN was read at the London New Play Festival in 1997.
Full-length plays include: MOMENTS OF GLORY, which received a rehearsed reading at the Nuffield Theatre in November 1998; ANOTHER FINE MESS which was toured by the PostScript Theatre Company in 1998/99 and PITS, which was a runner-up in the 2004 King’s Cross Award for new writing.
YOURS ABUNDANTLY FROM ZIMBABWE, directed by Annie Castledine was produced at the Oval House Theatre, London, during Black History Month in October 2008 and CROOKED WOOD was produced at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in September 2008.
As well as ME AND MY FRIEND, plays published by Samuel French include BEATA BEATRIX, CECILY, CLOSE TO CROYDON, DAVID`S BIRTHDAY, THE JANNA YEARS, A KIND OF VESUVIUS, PHILIP AND ROWENA, TWO SUMMERS, UMJANA LAND, THERE’S NONE SO BLIND, TIPPERS, TWO FAT MEN, TOUCHING TOMORROW, THE ALLOTMENT and THE WINDOW CLEANER.