Evan Placey is a Canadian-British playwright who grew up in Toronto
and now lives in London, England.
His plays include: Peter Pan with Vikki Stone (Rose Theatre,
Kingston, 2023); Jekyll & Hyde (National Youth Theatre, 2017 West
End season); Consensual (National Youth Theatre, 2015 West End
season); Girls Like That (Synergy/Unicorn Theatre; first produced
and commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal
Plymouth and West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2013; winner of the Writers'
Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences); Mother of Him
(Courtyard Theatre; winner of the King's Cross Award for New
Writing, RBC National Playwriting Competition, Canada, and the
Samuel French Canadian Play Contest); Banana Boys (Hampstead
Theatre); Suicide(s) in Vegas (Canadian tour; Centaur Theatre Award
nomination); Scarberia (Forward Theatre Project/York Theatre
Royal); How Was It For You? (Unicorn Theatre); Holloway Jones
(Synergy Theatre Project/schools tour/Unicorn Theatre; winner of
the Brian Way Award 2012 for Best Play for Young People; Writers'
Guild Award nomination); WiLd! (tutti frutti/UK tour and USA);
and Pronoun (National Theatre Connections festival, 2014).
Work for radio includes Mother of Him (BBC Radio 3/Little Brother
Productions).
Evan is a Creative Fellow and Lecturer at the University of
Southampton, and also teaches playwriting to young people for
various theatres, and also in prisons.
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