Jessica Dromgoole

Jessica Dromgoole

Jessica Dromgoole is a British theatre and radio-play director, notable as the Artistic Director of the Finborough Theatre from 1988 to 1991. She is currently New Writing Co-ordinator for BBC Drama, Entertainment and Children's programmes.

She won the 2007 Prix Italia for Original Radio Drama with The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body.[1]

Radio Plays

Radio Plays Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Date first broadcast Play Author Cast Synopsis
Awards		 Station
Series
31 March 2007 The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body[2][3] Ed Hime Khalid Abdalla, Ameet Chana, Elaine Lordan, Saikat Ahamed, John Dougall, Mark Straker, Anthony Glennon and Jasmine Callan Ed Hime's blackly comic fictional documentary combines a collage of deliberate recordings, from police surveillance tapes to an unfinished installation piece on pigeons, as it follows Babak Beyrouti, famous Iranian sound recordist and agoraphobic, as he braves London in his quest for lost love.

Won the Prix Italia for Original Radio Drama in 2007.[1]		 BBC Radio 3 The Wire[4]
18 June 2008 Listen to the Words[5] Ed Hime Joe Dempsie, Lizzie Watts, Sam Crane, Lisa Stevenson, Nyasha Hatendi, Helen Longworth, Ben Crowe, John Rowe, Liz Sutherland, Stephen Critchlow and Dan Starkey Tim has a problem with empathy, and justifies tapping fellow student Sophie's phone as the only way to understand her. When it all goes wrong, he books the media room of the secure unit where he is being held and creates a broadcast for his college radio station. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play[6]
2 August 2010 – 6 August 2010 The Shooting Party[7] Isabel Colegate dramatised by D J Britton Olivia Colman, Ellie Kendrick, Sam Dale, Jaimi Barbakoff, Michael Shelford, Christine Kavanagh, Joshua Swinney, Sean Baker, Sally Orrock, Jude Akuwudike and David Seddon Autumn 1913; a shooting party takes place on an Oxfordshire country estate. An error of judgement results in a death. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama[8]
18 November 2010 All the Blood in My Veins[9] Katie Hims Elaine Lordan, Shannon Tarbet, Tyger Drew-Honey, Katie Angelou, Alfie Browne-Sykes, Jude Akuwidike, Lloyd Thomas, Deeivya Meir and Shirena Watt Viola, a 14-year-old girl, has responsibilities beyond her age. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play

Sources

References

  1. ^ a b Prix Italia, Winners 1949 - 2010, RAI
  2. ^ BBC – The Wire – The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body
  3. ^ The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body – A radio play by Ed Hime (script)
  4. ^ BBC – The Wire
  5. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Listen to the Words
  6. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play
  7. ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Shooting Party
  8. ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama
  9. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – All the Blood in My Veins


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