JAMES LARK

WRITING EXPERIENCE

Have written extensively for theatre, including complete productions Miracles at Short Notice (Musical Talk's pick of the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe), Tony Blair – the Musical ("the seeds are here for a much bigger production - here is talent to be nurtured" – The Stage), family show The Snow Spider and one-man show The Rise and Fall of Deon Vonniget ("very funny…fantastically skewed" – The New York Times). Have also written for NewsRevue, Ealing Live!, Focus Theatre Company and the Cambridge Footlights Dramatic Club. Co-wrote Fringe, a tongue-in-cheek guide to the Edinburgh Fringe (published by Friday Books), itself based on a series of articles written for satirical website The Friday Thing.

Have also conceived and written internet dramas Degrees of Separation and The Sitcom ("if you haven't already watched it you absolutely must" – The Guardian), have been commissioned to write and adapt plays for BBC radio and have written several short films, including Beach (winner of two awards in the 2011 Strawberry Shorts film festival), Summer's End (highly commended in the 2006 Andrew Cross Awards) and The Ghost of Kirkton Fell (shown at the Final Cuts Festival in Brighton).

Short films
Writer, PURGATORY (January 2011) – Talk to Rex productions
Co-writer, DEGREES OF SEPARATION (pilot internet series, July 2009) – Talk to Rex productions
Co-writer, THE SITCOM (pilot, July 2007) – Felix films
Writer/director/composer, BEACH (April 2007) – Talk to Rex productions
Writer/director/composer, HIDE AND SEEK (October 2006) – Talk to Rex productions
Co-writer/co-director/composer/actor, SUMMER’S END (March 2005) – Hired Thugs productions
Co-writer/co-director/composer, THE GHOST OF KIRKTON FELL (June 2004) – Hired Thugs productions
Co-writer/co-director, HANGING UP (April 2004) – Hired Thugs productions
Co-writer/co-director, HANGOVER (January 2004) – Hired Thugs productions
Co-writer/co-director, HANGMAN (December 2003) – Hired Thugs productions

Theatre
Co-adaptor/musical director, THE SNOW SPIDER (July 2010) – The Roundhouse, dir. Delyth Jones
Writer/musical director, NEWSREVUE (April 2008) – Canal Café theatre, dir. Max Webster
Lyricist/bookwriter/composer, TONY BLAIR – THE MUSICAL (July – September 2007) – Io Theatre Company, dir. Delyth Jones
Lyricist, WHAT’S IN A NAME? (Feb 2007) – short musical first performed at Greenwich Theatre, dir. Fiona Laird
Writer/performer, THE RISE AND FALL OF DEON VONNIGET (February/March/July/August 2006) – Io Theatre Company, dir. Delyth Jones
Adaptor/composer, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (May 2006) – John Paxton Primary School
Writer/composer, LOST (May 2005) - The Humble Theatre Company, dir. Jodi De Souza
Writer/performer, A DRINK WITH THE UNCERTAINTY DIVISION (Aug 2004) – The Uncertainty Division
Writer/compere, AS TIME GOES BY (Feb 2003) – Focus Theatre Company, dir. Sheila Mander

Radio
Writer, A HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS (promotion, December 2005) – GRF
Writer, THE ‘DIVERSITY EXPLORED’ SEMINAR (short play, May 2005) – BBC Radio
Adaptor/director, DO NOT BE AFRAID (serial, Dec 2004) – BBC Radio

Published works
FRINGE: SEEING IT, DOING IT, SURIVIVING IT – A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE EDINBURGH FRINGE (with James Aylett) – Friday Books, 2006

Awards
Strawberry Shorts 2011 – audience award and jury award given to Beach
MTM:UK Musical Theatre Awards, Edinburgh Fringe 2007 – commendation for the book of Tony Blair – the Musical
Andrew Cross Awards 2006 – commendation in Moving Image category for Summer’s End
Jerusalem Radio Awards 2004 – winner of Best Reflection for A Yorkshire Christmas