One of a series of drama texts published to coincide with theatrical premieres of new plays and translations.
Stephen Poliakoff, born in December 1952, was appointed
writer-in-residence at the National Theatre for 1976 and the same
year won the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award for
Hitting Town and City Sugar. In 1980 Poliakoff won a BAFTA Award
for the Best Single Play for Caught on a Train, the Evening
Standard's Best British Film Award for Close My Eyes in 1992, the
Critics' Circle Best Play Award for Blinded by the Sun in 1996 and
the Prix Italia and the Royal Television Society Best Drama Award
for Shooting the Past in 1999. His plays and films include Clever
Soldiers (1974), The Carnation Gang (1974), Hitting Town (1975),
City Sugar (1975), Heroes (1975), Strawberry Fields (1977),
Stronger than the Sun (1977), Shout Across the River (1978),
American Days (1979), The Summer Party (1980), Bloody Kids (1980),
Caught on a Train (1980), Favourite Nights (1981), Soft Targets
(1982), Runners (1983), Breaking the Silence (1984), Coming in to
Land (1987), Hidden City (1988), She's Been Away (1989), Playing
with Trains (1989), Close My Eyes (1991), Sienna Red (1992),
Century (1994), Sweet Panic (1996), Blinded by the Sun (1996), The
Tribe (1997), Food of Love (1998), Talk of the City (1998),
Remember This (1999), Shooting the Past (1999), Perfect Strangers
(2001), for which he won the Dennis Potter Award at the 2002 BAFTAs
and Best Writer and Best Drama at the Royal Television Society
Awards, and The Lost Prince (2003), winner of three Emmy Awards in
2005, including Outstanding Mini Series. His work for the BBC
includes Friends and Crocodiles (2006) and Gideon's Daughter (also
2006), which won two Golden Globes and a Peabody Award in 2007,
Joe’s Palace (2007) and Capturing Mary (2007), which was
Emmy-nominated and won a BAFTA.
More recently, Stephen released the feature film Glorious ’39
(2010) with BBC Films. Stephen’s latest stage play My City
premiered at the Almeida Theatre in 2011 and his BBC television
series Dancing On The Edge (2013) achieved international acclaim,
winning a Golden Globe. His latest television series, Close To The
Enemy premiered in 2016 on BBC Two.
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