Colin Teevan
Lecturer, playwright and screenwriter
About Colin Teevan
Biography
COLIN TEEVAN was born in Dublin and studied at the University of Edinburgh. His recent stage work includes; Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic, Bouffes du Nord) The Lion of Kabul for the Great Game: Afghanistan project (Tricycle Theatre and US Tour, Olivier and Liberty Human Rights nomination) Amazonia! co-written with Paul Heritage(Young Vic), How Many Miles to Basra? (West Yorkshire Playhouse, winner of 2007 Clarion Award for Best New Play), The Diver, co-written with Hideki Noda, (Soho Theatre/Setagaya Theatre,Tokyo) The Bee, co-written with Hideki Noda, (Soho Theatre/Setagaya Theatre,Tokyo; winner of Best New Play Awards at 2008 Yomiuri Newspaper Theatre Awards, Asahi Newspaper Theatre Awards, Mainichi Newspaper Theatre Awards, Kinokuniya Theatre Awards). Missing Persons; Four Tragedies and Roy Keane (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh/Trafalgar Studios) Alcmaeon in Corinth - (Newcastle Live!);Monkey! (The Young Vic/Dundee Rep/West Yorkshire Playhouse) The Walls, (National Theatre) Vinegar and Brown Paper (Abbey, Dublin)The Big Sea (Galloglass Ireland/Riverside Studios)
Stage adaptations include Peer Gynt, adapted from Ibsen, (National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep, production winner of four CATS 2008, Barbican Theatre and Scottish Tour May/June 2009) Don Quixote adapted from Cervantes with Pablo Ley, (West Yorkshire Playhouse) Svejk, from the novel by Jaroslav Hasek (Gate London/The Duke, New York)
Stage translations include: Bacchai Euripides (National Theatre, London/ Epidaurus, Greece, winner of an Olivier Award) and Cuckoos by Giuseppe Manfridi (Gate/Barbican) both directed by Sir Peter Hall; Marathon by Edoardo Erba (Gate London) and Iph. . .a version of Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis (Lyric, Belfast/Mercury Colchester).
Television includes forthcoming Single Handed: Between Two Fires for RTE and ITV.
Radio plays include: Iph. . . , Tricycles , The RoyKeaneiad Parts 1 and 2, Medea: The Last Word, Arse, The Revanant, How Many Miles to Basra?, The Devil Was Here Yesterday, all BBC Radio 3 and Glass Houses, and Myrrha BBC Radio 4. His new 90 minute play Massistonia premieres on Radio 3 in February 2011
He was the production dramaturg and associate director on Sir Peter Hall’s Tantalus (RSC/Denver Center for Performing Arts) He was writer-in-residence at Queen’s University, Belfast; Screen East Writing Fellow at UEA and North Eastern Literary Fellow based at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham.
All his stage work work is published by Oberon Books.
Plays
- Colin’s plays include:
- The Lion of Kabul (Tricycle Theatre, Great Game Season)
- How Many Miles to Basra? (West Yorkshire Playhouse, winner of Clarion Best Play 2007)
- Amazonia (with Paul Heritage for the Young Vic)
- The Diver and The Bee (both with Hideki Noda for Soho Theatre and Setagaya Theatre, Tokyo)
- Monkey! (Young Vic, West Yorkshire, Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatres)
- Missing Persons: Four Tragedies and Roy Keane (Assembly Rooms/Trafalgar Studios)
- Alcmaeon in Corinth (Live! Theatre, Newcastle)
- The Walls (National Theatre)
Adaptations
- His adaptations include:
- Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic)
- Don Quixote (West Yorkshire Playhouse)
- Peer Gynt (National Theatre of Scotland/Barbican)
- Svejk (Gate Theatre/ Duke, Broadway).
Translations
- His translations include:
- Bacchai (National Theatre)
- Iph… (Lyric Theatre, Belfast) from the Greek of Euripides
- Cuckoos and Marathon (Gate Theatre) from modern Italian
Publications
- His stage work is published by Obeon Books.
- Colin has written more than 10 full-length plays for BBC Radios 3 and 4, including the award-winning Glass Houses (2007).
- He has written on many aspects of theatre including translating for the stage, adaptation, contemporary Irish Theatre and international, cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- He is an associate artist of West Yorkshire Playhouse and currently developing two new feature drama serials for BBC TV and RTE, Dublin.
