| Birth Name: | Oliver Robert Michael Emanuel |
| Birth Date: | 4 April 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Kent, England |
| Children: | 2 |
Oliver Robert Michael Emanuel (4 April 1980 – 19 December 2023) was a British playwright and radio dramatist.
Oliver Robert Michael Emanuel was born in Kent on 4 April 1980; his mother was a drama teacher and his father was a solicitor.[1] He attended St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School in Tunbridge Wells, studied English and Theatre Studies at University of Leeds, and received an MA from the University of East Anglia.[1] [2]
Emanuel was Writer-on-Attachment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2006 and Writer-in-Residence for BBC Radio 4 Children in Need in 2010. He lived in Glasgow from 2006. He was Reader of Playwriting at the University of St Andrews, an Associate Playwright at Playwrights' Studio Scotland, and Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library.[3]
In addition to his radio and stage plays below, Emanuel wrote two plays for Polmont Young Offenders Institute, Ship of Shadows (October 2009) and John (7 May 2010), and scripted the short film This Way Up.
In April 2023, Emanuel was diagnosed with brain cancer, and died from the disease on 19 December 2023, at the age of 43.[1] [4]
Emanuel had two children with Victoria Beesley; he and Beesley married in late 2023, shortly before his death.[1]
| Radio plays written by Oliver Emanuel | |||||
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| Date first broadcast | Play | Director | Cast | Awards | Station Series |
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| Joseph and Joseph [6] | Shaun Dooley, Helen Longworth, Christine Kavanagh, Sam Dale, John Dougall, Philippe Smolikowski, Mark Straker and Rachel Bavidge | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | |||
| Daniel and Mary [7] | Robin Laing and Natasha Watson | Bronze Sony Award for Best Drama 2010 [8] | BBC Radio Scotland Drama | ||
| Elvis in Prestwick [9] | Read by Laura Fraser | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading | |||
dramatisation of Tim Krabbé novel [10] | Samuel West, Melody Grove, Ruth Gemmell, Liam Brennan, Natasha Watson, Claire Knight and Robin Laing | BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play | |||
| Everything [11] | Natasha Watson, Sandy Grierson and Meg Fraser | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | |||
| One Night in Iran [12] | Khalid Abdalla and Maryam Hamidi | BBC Radio 3 The Wire | |||
| One Hundred and Forty Characters: Songbirds [13] | Read by Robin Laing | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading | |||
| Ancient Greek [14] | Alex Austin, Vincent Ebrahim, Sophie Stanton, Caitlin FitzGerald and Austin Moulton | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | |||
| Thirteen Minutes in Cairo [15] | Meg Fraser, Simon Tait and Hannah Donaldson | BBC Radio 4 From Fact to Fiction | |||
| – | [16] | Natasha Watson, Frances Grey, Robin Laing, Meg Fraser and Finlay Welsh | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama | ||
| [17] | Candida Benson, Babou Ceesay, Hannah Wood and Michael Shelford | BBC Radio 4 | |||
| Albion Street [18] | Robin Laing and Meg Fraser | BBC Radio Scotland Drama | |||
| Take Me to the Necropolis [19] | Emerald O'Hanrahan, Rebecca Benson, Lewis Binnie, Alison Peebles, Rosalind Sydney and Liam Brennan | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | |||
| Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.3. Food dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [20] [21] | Glenda Jackson, Jodie McNee, James Anthony Pearson, Jonathan Keeble, Graeme Hawley, Millie Kinsey and Julie Hesmondhalgh | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | |||
| Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.4. Politics dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [22] | Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Laura Dos Santos, Jodie McNee, James Anthony Pearson, Graeme Hawley and Jonathan Keeble | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | |||
| Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.5. Drink dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [23] | Glenda Jackson, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Mark Holgate | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | |||
| [24] [25] [26] | Mark Bonnar and Lucy Gaskell | Shortlisted for Tinniswood Award 2017 [27] | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | ||
| Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.1. Performance dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [28] | Glenda Jackson, Holliday Grainger, Ben Batt, John Catterall, David Crellin, Kimberly Hart-Simpson, Reece Noi and Kate O'Flynn | BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play | |||
| Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.2. Power dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [29] | Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Victoria Beesley, Laurie Brown, Laura Dos Santos, Alasdair Hankinson and Jonathan Keeble | BBC Radio 4 | |||
| Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 3.7. Fate dramatised by Oliver Emanuel [30] [31] | Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Samuel West, John Bett, Colette O'Neil, Gavi Singh Chera and Sean Graham | BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Adaptation, 2017.[32] | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | ||
| Transformations [33] | Read by Shauna Macdonald | BBC Radio 4 | |||
| – | [34] | Jocelyn Brassington, Christine Bottomley, Roderick Gilkison, Robin Laing, Kevin Mains, Anita Vettesse, Dani Heron and Adura Onashile | BBC Audio Drama Award winner for Best Original Series or Serial, 2019.[35] ISNTD (International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases) Festival, Best Audio Drama, 2018. | BBC Radio 4 15 Minute Drama | |
| (After) Fear [36] | Shauna Macdonald, Meg Fraser, Maryam Hamidi and Robin Laing | BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 | |||
| When The Pips Stop [37] | Shauna Macdonald, Jessica Hardwick, Jakob Jakobsson and Ken Mitchell | Tinniswood Award 2019 winner [38] | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama | ||
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| – | Gemini[40] | Victoria Glass and Claire Davies | Stage By Stage | ||||
| – | Iz [41] | Grae Cleugh and Nick Jesper | Silver Tongue Theatre / Pleasance Theatre | ||||
| – | Grae Cleugh and James Gitsham | Silver Tongue Theatre / Tron Theatre, Glasgow | |||||
| – | Shiver [42] | Kay Bridgeman and Grae Cleugh | Silver Tongue Theatre / Pleasance Courtyard | ||||
| – | Marcia Battise | Theatre 503 | |||||
| – | Bella and the Beautiful Knight [43] [44] | Grae Cleugh, Sally Kent, Nicholas Cowell | Silver Tongue Theatre / Gilded Balloon Teviot | ||||
| – | Tron Theatre, Glasgow | ||||||
| – | Magpie Park [45] [46] [47] [48] | West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds | |||||
| – | Man Across the Way [49] [50] | Grae Cleugh, Nicholas Cowell, John Milroy and Harriette Quarrie | Silver Tongue Theatre and Theatre 503 | ||||
| – | [51] | Arches Theatre, Glasgow | |||||
| – | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | ||||||
| – | Flit | National Theatre of Scotland | |||||
| – | Videotape [52] | Robbie Jack and Sam Young | Òran Mór, Glasgow | ||||
| – | One night in Iran [53] | Nabil Stuart and Amiera Darwish | Òran Mór, Glasgow | ||||
| Henry & Ingrid: Some Words For Home | Tron Theatre, Glasgow | ||||||
| – | Spirit of Adventure [54] | Dundee Rep / Òran Mór, Glasgow | |||||
| – | Random Objects Flying Through The Air | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / Playwrights' Studio, Scotland | |||||
| – | End of The World | Red Note Ensemble | |||||
| – | Titus | New English version of Jan Sobrie's text. | |||||
| – | Adaptation of the book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (created by Lu Kemp and Abigail Docherty) | ||||||
| – | Dragon | Vox Motus / National Theatre of Scotland / Tianjin People's Arts Theatre, China | Conceived by Jamie Harrison, Oliver Emanuel and Candice Edmunds | ||||
| – | [55] | David Ireland and Alasdair Hankinson | Macrobert The Arches, Glasgow | Co-created with Gareth Nicholls | |||
| – | Visible Fictions | ||||||
| – | [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] | Arran Howie and Alex Bird | Tortoise in a Nutshell | ||||
| – | Prom [61] [62] | Ryan Fletcher, Helen MacKay, Martin McBride and Nicola Roy | A Play, a Pie and a Pint Òran Mór, Glasgow | ||||
| – | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | ||||||
| – | [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] | Scott Gilmour, Josef Davies and Joshua Miles | National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre with funding from 14–18 NOW | Composed by Gareth Williams | |||
| – | [68] [69] [70] [71] | Dani Heron, Amanda Wilkin, Fletcher Mathers, Wendy Somerville, Angela Hardie and Steven Miller | National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre and Stellar Quines Theatre Company with funding from 14–18 NOW | Composed by Gareth Williams | |||
| – | Flight [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] | and | Nalini Chetty, Farshid Rokey, Emun Elliott, Maryam Hamidi, Robert Jack, Rosalind Sydney, Waleed Akhtar and Adura OdashileHerald Angel Award 2017. | Vox Motus Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh | Based on the novel Hinterland by Caroline Brothers | ||
| – | McKittrick Hotel, New York [82] | ||||||
| – | Melbourne International Arts Festival [83] | ||||||
| – | Brighton Festival [84] | ||||||
| – | ASU Gammage [85] | ||||||
| – | [86] [87] [88] [89] | Sarah Kameela Impey, Ryan Fletcher and Danny Hughes | National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre with funding from 14–18 NOW | Composed by Gareth Williams | |||
| – | [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] | Charlene Boyd, Christine Entwisle and Tanya Moodie | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough | ||||
| – | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | ||||||
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