Russell Raintree

Russell Raintree is a British playwright. He was born and raised in Leeds, England. After almost twenty years spent writing and producing Russell is preparing to stage his latest play 'THE PUPPET MAN', an inspiring, diverse and chilling, psychological thriller, which he believes is 'set to take the Theatre world by storm!'..This sees a cast of only three actors play out intimate and dynamic dialogue that not only challenges the viewer in a montage of mind-games and deception but entwines them in the relationships on stage....

Background

Russell began writing in 1986 and after sending his first play 'Stranger on a First Night' to the BBC scripts dept he was invited down to London by Tony Dinner who told him to pack up working as a salesman and take up writing full time. This sentiment was echoed shortly afterwards by Rod_Hall, then at A.P Watt Ltd, who, after reading this play, also invited Russell down to London and expressed a great interest in his work.

Works

Russell has written several stage plays, including 'The Final Accolade', 'Writings on the Wall', two screenplays, 'No Saving Grace' and his recently completed screenplay for a film entitled 'The Candle Still Burns'. His first play 'Stranger on a First Night' was first performed at "The Leeds Civic Theatre in 1986". Followed in 1987 by his second play 'At Fort Felix', again staged at "The Leeds Civic Theatre" and later at "The Dewsbury Arts Centre". His latest and believed to be his most powerful play 'The Puppet Man' is being staged at "The Carriageworks, Millennium Square Leeds in November 2008". It is a tense, psychological thriller starring Lee Russell , Mason Tyree and Jessica Warren and directed by Charlotte Gray.