John Chambers

John's stage plays include: Stiff Stuff; Shouting at the Radio; Raw Material; Albert Finney Doesn't Live Here Any More; Robin Hood - The Raven's Revenge - all at the Library Theatre Company where he was Arts Council Resident Dramatist; Two Wheel Tricycle (Contact Theatre); Silver Lining (Oldham Coliseum); Yoiks Oiks (Bolton Octagon); The Marigold Trilogy (Real Life Theatre. M.E.N. Best Fringe Award); Balling the Blues (One Step); City of Gold (Arden).

John has written three epics for Lancaster Dukes Promenade Seasons - Tales of King Arthur, Jungle Book and The Three Musketeers, and several pieces for/with young people at Manchester Youth Theatre and M6 where he was also Resident Writer.

Co-written theatre work includes: Scandals - The Life & Liver of Frank Randle with Keith Clifford (which John also directed); Crazy People with Marvin Close (LTC); I'm Marrying Ryan Giggs (Robbie Fowler in Liverpool!) with Dave Simpson (Liverpool Playhouse & national tour); Koff with Brian Morgan (One Step).

He has written around 100 hours of television including: The Bill (Thames); Emmerdale (Granada-YTV). Working on it during BAFTA Best Soap year 2001); Eastenders; Runaway Bay (YTV / Lifetime); 14 episodes of Children’s Ward (Granada. Including RTS Best Children's Drama Series); 3 fifteen minute films for BBC Education's Turning Points, (which won BAFTA and RTS awards, 1999); Away From Home and Grease Lightning - 30 minute plays for BBC2 (Northwest); Dramarama (ITV).
If you’d like to read some of John’s stage work on-line, go to “Lazybee scripts” or “Pro-play”.

PUBLISHED PLAYS – on paper or on-line

Marigolds www.lazybeescripts.co.uk
Marigolds – piling on the agony www.lazybeescripts.co.uk
Kecks www.lazybeescripts.co.uk
Where There’s Blame www.lazybeescripts.co.uk
His Shoes Were Far Too Tight www.lazybeescripts.co.uk
Bottle www.lazybeescripts.co.uk
Lazy Daze www.lazybeescripts.co.uk
Tales of King Arthur Samuel French
Who Cares N.P.N
Away from Home - (in “You Don’t Know You’re Born”) Hodder & Stoughton
Three Musketeers www.singlelane.com/proplay
Robin Hood and The Raven’s Revenge www.singlelane.com/proplay
Stiff Stuff www.singlelane.com/proplay
Two-Wheel Tricycle www.singlelane.com/proplay
Albert Finney Doesn’t Live Here Anymore www.singlelane.com/proplay
Silver Lining www.singlelane.com/proplay

AND FROM SPRING 2009:

Smalls World A part of Real Life Theatre's season of six short stage plays by TV writers. End March / Beginning April at Joshua Brookes Theatre Bar, Manchester.

The Meek (TBC) Full length play for Arden, Manchester. June 2009.

Insightment – a collection of 5, in your face, full-length plays –