Philip Osment - Dramaturg

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Dramaturg - Blackberry Trout Face (2011, 2009), GhostBoy (2010).

Biography

Philip Osment started out as an actor with Gay Sweatshop and Shared Experience. His first script was his one man show, Telling Tales.  He directed and wrote productions for Gay Sweatshop including the acclaimed This Island’s Mine and for Theatre Centre and Red Ladder (Who’s Breaking?, Wise Guys, Little Violet - joint winner of the Peggy Ramsey Award). His collaborations with the director Mike Alfreds produced The Dearly Beloved (Winner of Writers Guild Award), What I Did in the Holidays, Flesh and Blood and Buried Alive. Then, in 2009, Fathers Inside opened at the Soho Theatre.

His radio plays include a recent dramatisation of H.G Well’s The Time Machine and he translated Pedro The Great Pretender by Cervantes for the RSC and KEBAB, played at the Royal Court. Philip regularly works as a Dramaturg and teaches acting and writing in a variety of contexts.

• Blackberry Trout Face (2011)
• Blackberry Trout Face