Philip Goulding has written over thirty stage plays, including Beneath the Waves (Eastern Angles/Colchester Mercury Theatre), Then He Kissed Me (Royal Theatre Northampton 1993, Courtyard Theatre London in association with Soho Theatre 1996), kid (Eastern Angles/Colchester Mercury Theatre), Went Down to the Crossroads (Courtyard Theatre, London), Waiting for Elvis (New Perspectives), Heading West (Forest Forge in association with Salisbury Playhouse), Different Animal (Bootleg Theatre Company/Hen & Chickens, London), The Belle of Bonavista Bay (Forest Forge), Wake Up Little Suzie! (Oldham Coliseum/Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke), Feels Like the First Time (Oldham Coliseum), Horse or River (Oldham Coliseum Outreach) and, with composer Kate Edgar, Doc Faust! - A Wild West Musical (Forest Forge 2002, Maine Performing Arts Festival 2007). His play Strange Lands won 1st Prize in the International Theatre Institute Playwriting Competition 2002 and was produced by Public View Theatre Company and Giorgos Gikapeppas at the Empros Theatre, Athens in 2003 and premiered in the UK by N1 Theatre Company at the Courtyard Theatre, London in 2005.

His adaptations include Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland, Briar Rose, Peter Pan and The True Tales of Robin Hood (all Forest Forge), The Titfield Thunderbolt (New Perspectives 1997, Third Space 2004, Bill Kenwright/CV Productions/Hornchurch/Windsor 2005, Bruce James Productions 2010), Toad of Toad Hall (Forest Forge 1998, New Perspectives 1999, Eye Theatre 2001, Alberta Theatre Projects 2009), The Wind in the Willows (Basingstoke Haymarket), Hansel & Gretel (Forest Forge 1999, Eye Theatre 2002), The Mayor of Casterbridge (Forest Forge/Salisbury Playhouse 1998, Wessex Actors Company 2005) and a new version of Gogol's classic comedy The Government Inspector (Forest Forge/Salisbury Playhouse 1997, Watermill Theatre, Newbury 1998, and as A Little Local Difficulty at Oldham Coliseum 2003).

The Titfield Thunderbolt is published by Samuel French Ltd. Went Down to the Crossroads and The Mayor of Casterbridge were published in the monthly theatre magazine Plays International and excerpts from his plays have been featured in Monologue and Scene anthologies published by Smith & Kraus (New York) and Meriwether Publishing (Colorado). He was awarded an Arts Council of England Theatre Writing Bursary in 1995.

For television he has written Remaining Glimpses (joint first prize winner in the 1988 Radio Times TV Drama Awards) and Keeper (Channel 4).

For radio he has written A Fat Man Eats the Moon and The Dilemma for RTE (Dublin) and Unexpected Vonnegut - an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's short story Who Am I This Time? for BBC Radio 4.

He has collaborated on a series of projects with composer Alan Edward Williams, including: 12 Storeys High (a song cycle for soprano and piano), the award-winning choral song sequence Divers Winged Creatures (MDR Rundfunkchor, Leipzig 2008), a two-minute opera: La Muerte de Mario Ferreyra - and Wonder: a Scientific Oratorio (BBC Philharmonic/BBC Singers/Salford Choral Society 2009).

Contact:   GouldingP@aol.com

Contact agent:  Janet Glass, Eric Glass Ltd, 25 Ladbroke Crescent, London  W11 1PS, United Kingdom  Eglassltd@aol.com  Tel: 020 7229 9500

Photograph of Philip Goulding by Carl Shavitz

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