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Dateline: 7th December, 2005
James Graham has just won one of five Pearson Award bursaries for new writing. The award will allow him to continue as Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, following the success of his play, Albert's Boy which won great acclaim earlier this year and starred Victor Spinetti as Albert Einstein. Judges of the Pearson Award include Sir John Mortimer CBE QC, Dame Beryl Bainbridge, Catherine Johnson (previous bursary winner and writer of Mamma Mia), Sue Summers, Thelma Holt CBE, Michael Billington, John Tydeman OBE and Jack Andrews MBE. This year's other winners of this prestigious award were Jack Thorne (Bush Theatre), Katie Douglas (Paines Plough), Sean Buckley (Royal Shakespeare Company), Linda Marshall Griffiths (Royal Exchange, Manchester). Once again, the Finborough Theatre is the only unfunded theatre to win a Pearson bursary. This is the third award to be won by the Finborough Theatre in the past month -
23 year old James Graham was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. His first play Coal not Dole! played at the Edinburgh Festival in 2002 and subsequently toured the North of England. He was recently appointed Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre after developing Albert's Boy with the Finborough Theatre over the past two years. Laura Wade's plays include Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre and New York) and Breathing Corpses (Royal Court). She is also joint winner of the prestigious George Devine Award. She made her London debut at the Finborough Theatre (and remains as Playwright-in-Residence) in 2003 after being commissioned by Artistic Director Neil McPherson to adapt W.H. Davies' Young Emma which won a Time Out Critics' Choice in a production directed by Tamara Harvey. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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