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Martin Keady
About Me: From my website (https://theshakespeareplays.com/): Martin Keady is a multi-award-winning dramatist, journalist, lyricist, librettist – and poet. As a dramatist, his major credits include: Manhood, a comedy about a middle-aged man desperately trying to find the "fun" in "erectile dysfunction", which won The Jacques Tati Award for Best Comedy Script 2022 at Castillonnès Festival du Film; Man of Colour, a biopic of Walter Tull, one of Britain's first ever black professional footballers, who was driven out of the game by racism but rallied to become a hero of WWI, which won The Page Turner Awards Best Screenplay 2021; The Final (or A Short Film About Football), which was broadcast on Britain's Channel 4; Hello Goodbye (or Two Short Films About Love, Loss and Letting Go), which between them have won over a hundred awards at film festivals and competitions around the world, including the Stage 32 Short Film Contest and the HollyShorts Film Festival; Moon the Loon (co-written with Chas Early), a play about the legendary Who drummer Keith that premiered at the Edinburgh Festival and has subsequently been performed in London and Dublin; and a play for children, Three Tragedies, about some of Shakespeare’s most famous minor characters, which is published online with Drama notebook.
Featured Play
Abandoned
The world has been torn apart by terrorists. Strategically placed attacks have knocked out the grid. All over the UK, groups of people band together in order to survive. ABANDONED focuses on one such group who already are brewing with power struggles. How will they react when two new faces are added to the mix? Friendships formed and secrets come out. All the while the threat of 'them' looms over the group

Playwright: Matthew Fisher