Andy Evans

Male

Humberside

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

What I do:
Playwright from Penarth
A little more about me:
Freelance playwright/actor/director/dramaturg. Published in the UK and USA. One half of Breakwater Theatre Company - a new company dedicated to new writing for the stage.
Location:
Penarth and Humberside
Projects I’m working on:
Breakwater Theatre Company - a company specifically highlighting and promoting new writing for the stage.
October 2016 - FIT - a new monologue commissioned by Lincs Inspire staged by Breakwater Theatre Company.
July 2016 - "Amelie and the Detectives" a brand new play for primary age children
July 2016 - An all-new radio play entitled "The Grimsby Chums" to be broadcast July 2016, showing life on the Home Front and at The Front on the Somme. This is the second play of three, telling different aspects of the history of the 10th Battalion of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment during WW2.

September 2014 -"Pro Patria Mori - A Story of The Grimsby Chums" a community play about Grimsby's contribution to WW1 for the Caxton Theatre, Grimsby performed September 6th - 13th 2014.

New plays premiered during 2019:

The Beating - a short play premiered by Dirty Protest and subsequent performances by Breakwater Theatre and Chameleon 53 at Lincoln Drill Hall and by the Rum Diaries at Strathbungo Glasgow.

Indomitable - the story of Penarth's own Elisabeth Sheppard Jones.

With Love from Ruhleben a Heritage Lottery Fund project.

Hotel de Marl - written and performed by Andy Evans, broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside March 2020.

Currently developing Cofiwch Dryweryn - a play about the vandalism of the memorial at Llanrhystud.

Currently studying MA Theatre at the University of Lincoln 2019 - 2020.



Worked with Daniel Bye May 2013.

Worked with Middle Child Theatre Company May 2013.

Wrote for Slung Low April 2013.

Worked with Conor McKee Productions in March 2013.
Personal Website/CV:
http://andyevans.wales
Twitter @username:
@fade2dust

Comment Wall:

  • Laurence Allan

    Second time Blow To Bute Street has reared its head in a couple of weeks. It was performed a long time ago on the main stage of the Sherman. Vivid memories though. Chat away!
  • Matt Ball

    HI Andy,

    the next forge is on the 18th July. 

    Matt

  • Catrin Fflur Huws

    Thanks Andy foe supporting the Kickstarter for TKAM - it really us very much appreciated.