Featured Playwright
Holly Boyden
About Me: Originally from Nottingham, I have a background in HETV scripted development and trained as a script editor with 4screenwriting. I’m a trained actor (RCSSD 2017) and professionally produced playwright. I am currently freelancing as a creative and script consultant looking to make new connections to collaborate and produce my second professionally produced theatre show. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama I was supported by Derby Theatre, In Good Company, Nottingham Playhouse and Wolverhampton Arena Theatre to develop and stage my full-length play It Kind of Looks Like a Doughnut, which was awarded Arts Council England funding. The play was then awarded the Pleasance National Partnership Award in association with Leicester Curve and had a successful run at the Pleasance. I have started to adapt Doughnut for screen and I am currently writing my first short film dealing with a traumatic relationship breakdown and Cornish nationalism as well as developing a mystery drama play for stage and feature about a suspected murder/suicide in 1901.
Featured Play
MetaMorphoses, based on Ovid\'s original
Primal storytelling and contemporary sensibilities collide in a sensual and physical re-envisioning of Greek myths in MetaMorphoses, based on the Roman Poet Ovid. MetaMorphoses presents a poetic kaleidoscope of transformations that mesmerises with its tales of Midas, Aphrodite, Myrrha, Eros, Psyche, Dionysus, and many more deities and mortals in a sharp-edged meditation on the joys and perils of being human. Many scenes touch on consent, body image, trans issues, the capitalist crisis and the human experience in times of overpowering change.
Playwright: Nora Kopp