AUTHOR - JOHN GODBER
John Godber was born in 1956, in Upton, West Yorkshire and is one of Britain's most prolific and celebrated playwrights. He has won five Edinburgh Fringe First awards and in 1984 won the Laurence Olivier Comedy of the Year Award for Up'n'Under. His most famous play, Bouncers, was nominated for Comedy of the Year in 1985 and won seven Los Angeles Critics Circles Awards and five awards in Chicago in 1987. On the Piste was nominated for Comedy of the Year in 1993 and April in Paris was nominated Comedy of the Year in 1994. His other plays include: Blood, Sweat and Tears, Cramp, Happy Jack, September in the Rain, Salt of the Earth, Passion Killers, Happy Families, Up'n'Under II, Gym and Tonic, Dracula, Lucky Sods, Hooray for Hollywood, Weekend Breaks, It Started with a Kiss, Unleashed, Thick As a Brick, Big Trouble in the Little Bedroom,Seasons in the Sun, On a Night Like This and Our House. As well as directing all the first productions of his plays, John has directed Woyzeck, Twelfth Night, Gargling with Jelly, Playing Away, Bully and Alan Plater's Sweet Sorrow. TV includes; Crown Court, Grange Hill and Brookside. In 1987 he wrote and co-directed the BBC 2 six part series The Ritz and its sequel The Continental. His screenplay My Kingdom for a Horse starring Sean Bean was nominated for an alternative BAFTA and he devised the BBC 2 series Chalkface. He directed a television version of Shakers - the Musical which was nominated Best Children's TV Drama 1993. John's first feature film Up'n'Under was released in January 1998. John is married with two daughters.