Arvon Foundation: Playwriting Course
Soho Theatre Co.: Playwriting Workshops
Awards: Peggy Ramsay Trust Grant
FREELANCE WRITING:
RADIO
A Square of One's Own - (Radio 4) four part sitcom
based on the Bloomsbury Group) broadcast May-June 1996
King Street Junior (Radio 4) - one episode co-written
with Dave Single, broadcast April 1995
Weekending (Radio 4) - commissioned writer 1992-97
The News Huddlines (Radio 2) - commissioned for three
series
Broth (BBC Radio Wales) - contributor
The Treatment (Radio 5 Live) - commissioned writer
The Beaton Generation (Radio 4) - commissioned
writer
TELEVISION
Rory Bremner - who else? (Channel Four) - numerous
writing credits
Bremner, Bird and Fortune (Channel Four) - numerous
writing credits
1998 BAFTA Film Awards - co-writer (with Rory Bremner, John Langdon
and Ian Johnson) of Rory Bremner's speech
No Limits (Sky TV) - numerous sketches.
1994
L!VE TV - Material used by stand-up Mark Brailsford
STAGE
Newsrevue - contributed sketches since 1991, and served as Script
Editor for two years.
Westending - Jermyn Street Theatre, Piccadilly Circus
- sketches
After Eight Stint - Offstage Downstairs, Chalk Farm
- sketches
Various other revue shows in London and the Edinburgh fringe.
PROJECTS
She's All Mine - Romantic comedy screenplay
Picture of Darren Gray - comedy screenplay being
considered by Vera Productions
The New Canterbury Tales, linked to The Poet's Tale
- documentary on Chaucer - series idea with Gareth Edwards, BBC
Alice in WonderBand - radio play, being submitted
by Ned Chaillet, BBC Radio Drama, to next commissioning round
Chores - TV sitcom about a scatty music teacher and
her expat accountant sister who comes to stay...and stays.
AWARDS
Hettie - full length play being rewritten with support from the
Peggy Ramsay Foundation. 1998.
PUBLISHED
Articles in The Independent, Time Out, Topical Books
etc.
All rights
to the works reserved by The Ivan Shakespeare Estate . For inquiries about
Ivan's work, please
contact his widow Elspeth MacLean through the Writers Guild.