Little Wonder Writers

Anne Frith

Anne Frith has taught English at secondary schools in Bristol, Lisbon and Braga, and now works in Manchester. In an ideal world she would be back at university, studying something like linguistics, and going to lots of dance classes. Anne has been writing short stories and plays all her life, but it’s only recently she’s produced anything she’d like to send out into the world. No New Messages is her first radio play.

Little Wonder Radio Plays · No New Messages

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Toby Frost

When not being a semi-respectable lawyer, Toby Frost writes novels. He is the author of seven books: the six Space Captain Smith stories, which tell of the comical adventures of inept space explorer Isambard Smith, and Straken, a novel set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. He has also written short stories for Snowbooks and Black Library. He is currently trying to write a book that doesn’t involve robots. Walking The Halls is his first radio play.

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Annie Fox

Annie Fox is a California-born, London-based writer. She trained as an actor in New York and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, subsequently performing in theatre, films, television and radio. She has taught Drama, English and Media in London schools and regularly writes educational books for Oxford University Press and Illuminate Publishing. Her play, WOMAN CAUGHT UNAWARE, was a winner of the Heretic Voices competition, leading to a run at the Arcola Theatre in London and being published by Nick Hern Books in 2018. TROLL, part of her one woman play trilogy, TROLL/DAMSEL/CRONE, received a rehearsed reading at the Clapham Omnibus. Her short play, RUNNING ON THE SPOT, was selected for the Female Edit at Above the Arts to celebrate 100 years since women got the vote. DRIVERLESS is her first radio play and she is delighted that it won the Little Wonder Short Radio Play competition. On twitter she can be found @anniekathfox

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Driverless

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Zoe Grainge

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Little Wonder Radio Plays · The Fall

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Tom Harvey

tomharvey33@gmail.com

View Tom’s LinkedIn profile here

Tom Harvey is a BAFTA winning writer/producer. He wrote book and lyrics for the musical LYDIA about Henri Matisse’s final muse, optioned by Freemantle owned Fontoram in Paris for an eight part TV series. Tom’s first play, POOL, won WriteNow 5 and was produced at the Jack Theatre. He wrote the verbatim play ABOUT LAST NIGHT on the 2017 general election, which was performed at the Arcola with Monica Dolan and Helen Belbin.

Full-length plays include HOW TO LOVE FOREVER, THE NATURE OF GRAVITY, BULLET READY, IN THE DARKNESS, CASSANDRA, HOPE IS THE WEAPON OF CHOICE and the radio play THE COLOUR OF SILENCE. Tom has had play readings with Soho Theatre, Hospital Club and The Dramatists Guild of America.

Tom’s short plays have been performed around London and in Paris and the US.

[Pride of Rotterdam – Coming Soon]

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Stephen Lancefield

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Final Goodbye

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Michael Lin

https://michaellinplaywright.wordpress.com/

Michael Lin is an Asian-American actor, Foley artist, and playwright who was humbled and grateful to have his script “Like Candy From a Baby” voted the winner of Little Wonder’s 2019 “Breaking Boundaries” competition. Michael enjoys writing for both stage and audio mediums, with a tendency towards short comedies and bad wordplay. To date, his work has been produced by local community theatre groups Theatre@First and the Post-Meridian Radio Players, as well as Staten Island’s Sundog Theatre. Favorite past work includes writing an hour-long audio adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, voicing such varied and iconic characters as Arsène Lupin and Dracula for live audiences with the PMRP, and contributing a short play written in verse to Theatre@First’s inaugural Giving@First 24-hour play festival for charity. When not involved in theatre, Michael is a copyeditor for a scientific journal publisher. Michael lives in the Boston area with two roommates who like him and one cat who remains undecided.

Sophie Marie

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Inside Me

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Kai Maristed

Following early work in radio and drama in Germany (WDR, NDR), Kai published four books in the US including her story collection, Belong to Me (Random House), starred by Publisher’s Weekly. Regarding her third novel, Broken Ground, John Coetzee wrote, ‘It seems to me extraordinary that someone writing in English should… make a significant contribution to the literature of contemporary Germany.’ Stories and essays have appeared in Zoetrope, Kenyon Review, The American Scholar and StoryQuarterly, among other places, and most recently in Agni, Southwest Review, Epiphany and Consequence. A new story is forthcoming in The Iowa Review. A new play is in search of three actors. She reviews for the LA Times, ArtsFuse.org and the New York Times, and has taught writing and literature in the Emerson College and Warren Wilson MFA programs, the Harvard Extension School, and as a Writer-in-Residence at the Vermont Studio Center. As a member of the board of The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, she is perennially fighting over next year’s programming.

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Lisa Pasold

Lisa Pasold is a Canadian writer. In the course of research, she has been thrown off a train in Belarus, has taken the Lunatic Line in Kenya, and been cheated in the Venetian gambling halls of Ca’ Vendramin Calergi. She grew up in Montreal, which gave her the jaywalking skills to survive as a journalist. Her 2012 book of poetry, Any Bright Horse was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. Her fifth book, The Riparian, has just come out with Frontenac House, Calgary. She is the host and co-writer of Discovery World’s TV travel show “Paris Next Stop.” Lisa is the creator of “Improbable Walks”, story-telling walks focusing on legends and place memory. She has created these art walks to critical acclaim for festivals and gallery residencies in cities such as New Orleans, Toronto, and Paris. Find her on twitter at @pasoldla

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Non Figurative Sculpture

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Clare Shaw

Clare Shaw is a playwright and author from Essex. She has had plays performed at New Wimbledon Theatre, The Cockpit, The Pleasance and other small London venues as well as locally in Colchester and in Ipswich. She has had radio plays produced by Radio North and Frequency Radio (as well as Little Wonder, of course!). During the pandemic, she has written monologues for the Headgate Theatre and Ink Festival which have been performed on local radio and online. She is the author of one novel and several non fiction books. She had performed poetry on local radio and at the Fling Festival in Chelmsford. More information – www.clareshaw.com

Buddha Hat – Coming Soon

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Carol Sheppard

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Jesus in the Fridge

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Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor has many years’ experience of local bands, theatre and film-making. Chris has a passion for audio drama and joined the Little Wonder production team to explore and enjoy the creative process. He and anyone else he can enlist (his children, his parents, his household objects, colleagues, passers-by) have contributed musically, vocally, technically and critically to these exciting projects. His subsequent awakening as a writer has been thrilling for everyone at Little Wonder and we are all looking forward to big projects on the horizons.

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Numbers

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Matthew Michael Taylor

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A native of the greatest city on Earth – Milton Keynes – Matthew founded, edited & ran ‘cult poetry ragazine’ Monkey Kettle for 15 years and has written and acted in stage plays, TV shorts and arts pieces both at home and further afield. The Monkey Kettle team of collaborators which he helps wrangle have hosted gigs, festivals, installations and exhibitions all over Milton Keynes for two decades and counting. Matthew currently sings and plays kazoo in MK’s ‘premier three-man acoustic duo’, The Further Adventures Of Vodka Boy (https://soundcloud.com/tfaovodkaboy).

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Jack and Calliope

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Kris Thompson

Kris Thompson joined the playwriting community in 2014 but admits to a life-long love affair with writing. Working with Little Wonder Radio Plays was her first foray into non-staged theatre, and she was thrilled her script “Birth of a Hero” made their 2018 contest finals. More importantly, she learned much and has since written several more radio plays! Kris has enjoyed production by Theatre Suburbia, McKinney Repertory Theatre, Theatre of Owensboro, Cone Man Running, Vox Feminina, City Theatre, Scriptwriters/Houston, Gillette Community Theatre, Not Toronto Players, Boiling Point Players, M.T. Pockets Theatre, The Beacon Theatre, Baytown Little Theatre, Little Wonder Radio Plays, The Ruby Theatre, Company OnStage, and Zodiac Playhouse. She’s honored to have twice won the Theatre Suburbia National Scriptwriting competition and Cone Man Running Production’s Smattering XII Best Script. A Dramatists Guild and National New Play Network member, Kris is also a Producer of Houston’s 48 Hour Film Project

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Birth of a Hero

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Scot Walker

Scot Walker is celebrating his 65th year as a published author. For links to his novels, e-books, plays, short stories, poetry, essays, plays, Letters to Editors, restaurant reviews, textbooks, puzzles, and straight pornography (yes, Scot Walker is a gay man so that took some creative skill), email him at scotwalker2004@yahoo.com. He’s a member of the Dramatists Guild and his plays have been performed both in Europe and the USA. He’s currently editing his twelfth book: Journeys, with photos and his insights and reflections on the 100 countries he’s visited. In his spare time he gardens, plays organ and piano, and has taught himself oil painting. He is partnered and celebrating his 31st year with the kindest most wonderful man on earth.

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Kenu Hear The Wild Birds Sing

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Anni Walsh

Anni Walsh is a retired lawyer – and milliner – living in Cardiff, and dividing her time between Wales and Paris. As a practising lawyer she was involved in the miners strikes of the 1980s and her work is informed by her experiences of justice on both sides of the power divide. She has had poetry published in several anthologies, including Tandem – issue No 3 1995, Tears and Tenderness – Anchor Books 1996 and The C Word edited by Kate North – Cinnamon Press – 2011, and was runner up in the TW one act play contest 2016 for ‘Benchmarks’

Little Wonder Radio Plays · The Third Bridge

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Stephanie Weston

Stephanie Weston is a professional actress and emerging writer who has had work performed at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at The Royal Court, The Queen Dome, Edinburgh, The Rondo Theatre, Bath, Bridgwater Arts Centre, Tacchi Morris Arts Centre, Taunton, and the Brass Works Theatre, Bristol, amongst others. Writing competitions she has won include Page to Stage, Sandalles Five n’ Ten and Chorts (written) and Pint Sized Plays, which resulted in her work being published in a short play anthology. She has also contributed to comedy podcasts and has had her monologues and sketches broadcast on Radio Bristol. Stephanie regularly performs with Instant Wit, an improvised comedy company of which she is also Artistic Director and can be found on Twitter @InstantWit

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Gladiator

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Oliver Warren

Twitter, Instagram, Vimeo & Facebook: @oliverwarren

Oliver is a London-born and New York-based award-winning writer-director who has been obsessed with fiction from an early age. Driven to write and direct screen fiction, Oliver has a growing catalogue of screenplays for TV, Film & Web, and is now beginning to realise them on screen. With Operation: Semen, his first radio play, however, he has leapt at the chance to write this otherwise un-filmable tale.

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Mixed Gender Dorm

Little Wonder Radio Plays · Operation Semen

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