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Beth Steel

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Credits

THEATRE
Date: 2024
Production (role):
TILL THE STARS COME DOWN
Company:
National Theatre
Project details:
Director Bijan Sheibani
Starring Lorraine Ashbourne

Nominated for Best New Play at Olivier Awards 2024
Date: 2022
Production (role):
THE HOUSE OF SHADES
Company:
Almeida Theatre
Project details:
Director Blanche McIntyre
Starring Anne-Marie Duff

Shortlisted Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Shortlisted for WGGB Awards 2023 for Best Play

- The Telegraph ****
- Independent ****
- The i ****
- WhatsOnStage ****

- "A riveting watch from an incredibly exciting playwright – an explosive family portrait of secrets, grief, despair and division”
The Stage ****
Date: 2016
Production (role):
LABYRINTH
Company:
Hampstead Theatre
Project details:
Directed by Anna Ledwich

‘Racily exciting work that offers the most compelling theatrical study of high finance since Lucy Prebble’s Enron and which suggests chilling parallels with what is happening today in the Eurozone…This is invigorating, informative stuff’
- The Guardian ****

‘This fizzing play by the ultra talented Beth Steel is set in New York but it’s core feels more Middle America…full of fire-in-the-blood swagger’
- The Times ****

‘Labyrinth is Latin America’ wildly entertaining answer to Wall Street…richly researched, it’s insistently useful and almost indecently entertaining’
- The Telegraph ****
Date: 2014
Production (role):
WONDERLAND
Company:
Hampstead Theatre
Project details:
Directed by Ed Hall

Winner of the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright, Evening Standard Awards 2014

Finalist for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Best New Play, an award for best new play in the English language by a female playwright

"She has the gifts to become one of our most searching political playwrights." - Evening Standard

"Beth Steel, in a commanding Main Stage debut, illuminates corners of a story you think you know but you don’t." - David Hare

"Moving and timely" - Independent ****

"Scargill, Strikes, Solidarity and Scars" - The Guardian ****
Date: 2010
Production (role):
DITCH
Company:
HighTide Festival / Old Vic Tunnels
Project details:
Premiered at the HighTide Festival and transferred to the Old Vic Tunnels for a six week run

Shortlisted for the John Whiting Award
TELEVISION
Production (role):
THE CARHULLAN ARMY
Company:
Fable Pictures
Project details:
Series in Development
Production (role):
THE SISTERS
Company:
The Forge Entertainment/BBC
Project details:
Original Series in development

Credits

  • Date
    Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Date: 2024
    Production (role): TILL THE STARS COME DOWN
    Company: National Theatre
    Project details: Director Bijan Sheibani
    Starring Lorraine Ashbourne

    Nominated for Best New Play at Olivier Awards 2024
  • Date: 2022
    Production (role): THE HOUSE OF SHADES
    Company: Almeida Theatre
    Project details: Director Blanche McIntyre
    Starring Anne-Marie Duff

    Shortlisted Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
    Shortlisted for WGGB Awards 2023 for Best Play

    - The Telegraph ****
    - Independent ****
    - The i ****
    - WhatsOnStage ****

    - "A riveting watch from an incredibly exciting playwright – an explosive family portrait of secrets, grief, despair and division”
    The Stage ****
  • Date: 2016
    Production (role): LABYRINTH
    Company: Hampstead Theatre
    Project details: Directed by Anna Ledwich

    ‘Racily exciting work that offers the most compelling theatrical study of high finance since Lucy Prebble’s Enron and which suggests chilling parallels with what is happening today in the Eurozone…This is invigorating, informative stuff’
    - The Guardian ****

    ‘This fizzing play by the ultra talented Beth Steel is set in New York but it’s core feels more Middle America…full of fire-in-the-blood swagger’
    - The Times ****

    ‘Labyrinth is Latin America’ wildly entertaining answer to Wall Street…richly researched, it’s insistently useful and almost indecently entertaining’
    - The Telegraph ****
  • Date: 2014
    Production (role): WONDERLAND
    Company: Hampstead Theatre
    Project details: Directed by Ed Hall

    Winner of the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright, Evening Standard Awards 2014

    Finalist for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Best New Play, an award for best new play in the English language by a female playwright

    "She has the gifts to become one of our most searching political playwrights." - Evening Standard

    "Beth Steel, in a commanding Main Stage debut, illuminates corners of a story you think you know but you don’t." - David Hare

    "Moving and timely" - Independent ****

    "Scargill, Strikes, Solidarity and Scars" - The Guardian ****
  • Date: 2010
    Production (role): DITCH
    Company: HighTide Festival / Old Vic Tunnels
    Project details: Premiered at the HighTide Festival and transferred to the Old Vic Tunnels for a six week run

    Shortlisted for the John Whiting Award
  • Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Production (role): THE CARHULLAN ARMY
    Company: Fable Pictures
    Project details: Series in Development
  • Production (role): THE SISTERS
    Company: The Forge Entertainment/BBC
    Project details: Original Series in development
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