David Lane
Position held:
Dramaturgy and Playwriting
Phone:
+44 (0)20 07870 488 252
Email:
davidlane1980 (@gold.ac.uk)
David has worked variously as a dramaturg, playwright and lecturer for eight years. He studied Drama at Exeter University, Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College and Writing and Directing at Ecole Philippe Gaulier. He was Head Reader for the Gate Theatre in 2002 before working as the Literary Assistant at Soho Theatre and Writers' Centre until 2004.
He has since worked as a dramaturg on projects with the Exeter Northcott, with writers from Bristol Old Vic and Theatre West, and at Theatre Royal Bath where he has facilitated the Ustinov Writers' Forum since 2009 and is Project Leader for The Living Project, a two-year series of commissions exploring ageing and intergenerational issues with the local community.
He is a Developing Associate Artist at The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath until summer 2012 and has had work for young people commissioned by Hackney's Immediate Theatre (Bloodlines, 2007 and The Road, 2010), Half Moon Young People's Theatre (Begin / End, national tour 2010) and adapted The Odyssey for three youth theatre co-productions at Salisbury Playhouse, Cheltenham Everyman and Sixth Sense in Swindon in 2009.
In 2008 he was awarded the Michael Meyer Award by the Society of Authors for support in academic writing, has published articles in the journal Studies in Theatre and Performance and his book Contemporary British Drama has recently been published by Edinburgh University Press. He is convenor of Final Projects on the MA Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College, and has taught dramaturgy and playwriting at Exeter University, City University, Brunel and Sussex.
Other writing credits include Threads (Theatre 503), and One Hundred Per Cent Happy, which featured as part of Bristol Old Vic's Ferment season in July 2010. The Eighth Day was shortlisted for the Old Vic New Voices Award 2009, and David is currently working on two commissions for Forest Forge in Hampshire for production in autumn 2011. He is one of the Arts Council's Artistic Assessors until 2012.