Chris Tutton is an English poet, novelist, musician, songwriter, playwright and performer. His work, not infrequently suffused with wry humour, is romantic and philosophical, a profound and sympathetic commentary on the human condition and the eternal search for love and truth.
He participates in literature festivals across the country, including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Manchester, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Dartington; Ways with Words etc. and performs at theatres (including The Lyric, Hammersmith, Riverside Studios, Oldham Coliseum) and arts centres and libraries throughout the UK.
He is a popular compere and host and in 2006 launched Westwords (a literature festival in London) at the BBC, White City and has for several years hosted the Harrow Artsfest. He runs both writing and performance workshops and masterclasses and has worked in partnership with the London Libraries Development Agency and the BBC RAW project.
He first came to the nation's attention with his twice-weekly appearances on two series of ITV's Shift in 1996. Since then he has made many appearances on Warehouse Carlton TV, FYI Carlton, Big Breakfast Channel 4, as well as a number of regional magazine programmes, plus poetry and music for Ran, HTV and One Arts for Channel One. Radio appearances include Loose Ends, BBC Radio 4, Shaun Keaveny BBC 6 Music, Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 1 and Nationwide and Roscoe on Five, Radio 5 plus many regional BBC radio programmes.
His latest residencies have been at Chippenham and Warminster Libraries.
The Sunday Times Interaction Community Theatre Prize