Lucy Gough

Writer

Agent

Emily Hickman
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Lucy is a playwright and screenwriter based in Wales. She is a past recipient of the Creative Wales Award (to explore the role of the writer in physical theatre) and she was also invited to take up the Granada artist residency at the University of California Davis, where she wrote and directed a live radio/theatre piece which was performed and broadcast.

Lucy’s work has been performed around in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and the US and has been published by Methuen and Nick Hern books.

She has been shortlisted for numerous other awards including the BBC Wales Drama Award and the Nick Darke Award.

Theatre Credits:

GLAD HEARTS ADVENTURING
Powis Castle/Theatr Clwyd – 2019/20

CREATURE
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff – October 2019
Directed by Chris Durnall

THE WOLF TATTOO
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff – June 2018
Aberystwyth Arts Centre – July 2018
Directed by Chris Durnall

ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE Theatr Iolo, Welsh tour as part of the Dylan Thomas Centenary, October 2014, Australian tour to Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Arts Centre, July 2015
Stage play based on Dylan Thomas’ unfinished novel

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Abertystwyth Arts Centre) 2011
Adaptation
Director – Mark Babych
Published by Nick Hern Books

GRYFHEAD 2005
Dublin Fringe Festival:
Welsh Tour

MAPPING THE SOUL (Castaway Community Theatre) 2001

Other commissioned and performed Plays include:

RUSHES, STARS, HAUL, CROSSING THE BAR (Shortlisted John Whiting Award),

AS TO BE NAKED, BY A THREAD, CATHERINE WHEEL, JOANNA
Television Credits:

DOCTORS (BBC Drama) 2007-2015
Multiple Episodes

HOLLYOAKS (Mersey Television/Channel 4) 1996-2006
Over 90 episodes

MOVING ON (Mersey Television/Channel 4) 2001
Hollyoaks Spin Off
2 x 45’ episodes

Radio Credits:

WESTERN STARS 2011
BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play

MAN IN BLACK: THE WHITE HARE 2008
BBC Radio 7

MAPPING THE SOUL (BBC Radio 4) 2005

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Slot) 2003
Adaptation: Four hours

THE RAFT (BBC Radio 4) 2002

JUDITH BEHEADING HOLOFERNES (BBC Radio 4) 2000
Drama with Documentary material from
Germaine Greer

THE MERMAIDS TAIL (BBC Radio 4) 1999
Drama with Documentary material from Marina Warner

THE RED ROOM (BBC Radio 4) 1999
Drama with Documentary material from Glyn Hughes: On Charlotte Bronte and the writing of Jane Eyre

Other Broadcast Radio Plays include:

PROPHETESS OF EXETER, HEAD and OUR LADY OF SHADOWS

Film Credits:

THE WHITE HARE 2010
Short Film
Adaptation of original radio play
Director/Composer/Producer: Tom Young

Lucy is also a creative research fellow at Aberystwyth University in the department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies. She has given numerous guest lectures and papers at universities around the country.

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