Oliver Emanuel


Oliver Emanuel is a British playwright and radio dramatist. His play Daniel and Mary received a Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama in 2010. His play [|Dragon] won Best Show For Children and Young People at the UK Theatre Awards in 2014. His English version of [|Titus] won the People's Choice Victor Award in 2015 at IPAY. His play A History of Paper was shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award 2017, When The Pips Stop won the Tinniswood Award in 2019, and The Truth About Hawaii won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Series or Serial in 2019.
Oliver Emanuel was born in Kent, attended St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School in Tunbridge Wells, studied English and Theatre Studies at University of Leeds before going on to take the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His late mother was a drama teacher and his father is a lawyer. He 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 has lived in Glasgow since 2006. He is Reader of Playwriting at the University of St Andrews, an Associate Playwright at Playwrights' Studio Scotland, and Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library.
In addition to his radio and stage plays below, Oliver Emanuel has written two plays for Polmont Young Offenders Institute, Ship of Shadows and John, and scripted the short film This Way Up.

Radio plays

Theatre

Short stories