Nigel Moffatt, Esq's Biography

Nigel Moffatt, Esq's Professional Career

Career

playwright, singer/songwriter and poet; recorded Peace, Love and Harmony for Respond Records 1984, performed African Crisis and Poetry for Here and Now (Central TV) 1984, founded Writers' Gp Walsall 1984, runs Black Writers in Walsall project 2005, ed Multicultural magazine 2006, runs recording project in Walsall 2007 and The Drum Writers project 2008; currently making ind film Angel; writer in residence: Nat Theatre Studio 1985, Haymarket Theatre Leicester 1988, Shrewsbury Prison 1996-98; Winston Churchill travel fellowship 1989; advsr to W Midlands Arts; plays: Rhapsody in Black 'n' White (Nat Theatre Studio) 1985, Tony (Nat Theatre Studio 1985, Oval House 1987), Celebration (Royal Ct Theatre) 1986, Mamma Decemba (Temba Theatre Co and Birmingham Reperatory Co) 1987, Keeping Walsall Boxed In (W Midlands Arts Cncl) 1987, Opportunity (cmmnd by Br Film Inst) 1987, Prime Time (Haymarket Leicester) 1989, Beau Monde (Br Film Inst) 1990, Stop the Carnival (Cannon Hill Puppet Theatre) 1991, Musical Youth (Birmingham Reperatory Theatre ) 2001, Gun Crime (Arts Cncl of England Bursary) 2004; radio plays: Lifetime (BBC) 1988, Lame Ducks (BBC) 1989, Selling Out (BBC) 1989, Wishful Thinking (BBC) 1990, Mamma Decemba (BBC) 1994, Wasteland (BBC) 1997, Fish Ain't Bitin' (BBC) 1998; TV: When Love Dies (Channel 4) 1989, Opportunity (BBC) 1992, Strange Fruit (BBC) 1993; films: Dinner 2008, Skins 2008, 10% 2008; awards: Samuel Beckett Award for Mamma Decemba 1987, Giles Cooper Award for Lifetime 1987; Butler Tst Prison Service Annual Award

Nigel Moffatt, Esq's Publications

Books and Publications

Mamma Decemba (1988), Niggers (2008)

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