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Jim Cartwright’s plays are consistently performed around the world and have won numerous awards. They have been translated into 30 languages.
His first play, Road, opened at the Royal Court in 1986, and was revived the same year and again in 1987, before a nationwide tour. Road won the Samuel Beckett Award, Drama Magazine’s Best New Play Award, and was joint winner of the Plays and Players Award and the George Devine Award. In 1988, Road was produced by the Lincoln Center, New York. Road is now considered a modern classic. Other works include: Bed (NT 1989), Two (Bolton Octagon 1989, Young Vic 1990, Manchester Evening News Best New Play Award), Eight Miles High (Bolton Octagon 1991, Bristol Theatre Royal 1994 and 1995, TMA Best Musical Award nomination, and the 1997 production at Reykjavik City Theatre, Iceland, ran for a year, breaking box office records) and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (NT and Aldwych 1992). The Rise and Fall of Little Voice was nominated for six Olivier Awards, and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy in 1992 and the Olivier Award for Best Comedy 1993. Jim made his directorial debut with Road (Royal Exchange 1995). He also wrote and directed I Licked a Slag’s Deodorant (Royal Court at the Ambassadors 1996), Prize Night (Royal Exchange 1999) and Hard Fruit (Royal Court 2000).
Television includes: Road (BBC 1987, Golden Nymph Award for Best Film), Vroom (C4 1988, centrepiece of the London Film Festival), Wedded (BBC 1990) and June (BBC 1990). Jim produced and wrote Village (C4 1996), two films – Strumpet and Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (BBC 2001), andwrote and directed Johnny Shakespeare (BBC 2007, two Royal Television Society Awards).
Radio includes: Baths (BBC 1987).
His first novel, Supermarket Supermodel, was published July 2008.
