Sam Boardman-Jacobs

Sam Boardman-Jacobs (born 1949) is a Welsh playwright, director and production designer.

Boardman-Jacobs is a Reader in Theatre & Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan. His research interests include Holocaust Drama, Yiddish Theatre, Gay and Lesbian Theatre, Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, and the Spanish Civil War. [ [http://www.glam.ac.uk/hass/1186/376| Staff Details - Sam Boardman-Jacobs] [http://www.glam.ac.uk University of Glamorgan] . Retrieved on April 18, 2007] These interests are reflected in his plays.

He won acclaim [ [http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/individuals/individuals_details.asp?individualID=100 Sam Boardman-Jacobs] , [http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/index.asp Theatre in Wales.] Retrieved on April 18, 2007] for his work on Holocaust and Yiddish drama with the Manchester Youth Theatre and received a grant from the European Association of Jewish Culture in 2002 for his play "Trying To Be", an exploration of Jewish identity set in contemporary Britain. [ [http://www.jewishcultureineurope.org/bio.htm 2002 Grant Recipients] , [http://www.jewishcultureineurope.org European Association for Jewish Culture] . Retrieved on April 18, 2007]

In "Play Federico For Me" the ghost of Federico Garcia Lorca, killed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, meets Eva Peron. His translation and adaptation of Lorca's "El p%C3%BAblico" was produced by the Found Reality Theatre Company in 2005. His 2007 radio play, "The Sixth Column Has Better Legs", describes the experiences of four chorus girls in Madrid while the city is under siege.

"Passion For The Impossible" tells the story of Violette Leduc and Jean Genet in wartime Paris.

In 2003 he taught for the Lemonia Disabled Writers' Residential Course, a project organised by Graeae Theatre Company, Writernet and Ty Newydd. [ [http://www.writernet.co.uk/projects__partners/recent_projects/lemonia_2003/lemonia_full_report.phtml| Lemonia - Full Report] , [http://www.writernet.co.uk/php/map.php?id=294| Writernet] . Retrieved on April 21, 2007] The production of his 2004 play, "Embracing Barbarians", based on the political and sexual fantasies of dying Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, attempted to make to make the piece accessible to both deaf and hearing performers and audiences, while casting a deaf performer in the role of a hearing character. [ [http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/plays/author_playlist.asp?author=Sam+Boardman-Jacobs|Sam Boardman-Jacobs - Embracing Barbarians Synopsis] [http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/index.asp Theatre in Wales.] Retrieved on April 21, 2007]

He was also a scriptwriter for 12 years on BBC Radio 4's "The Archers" and one of the original writers for Channel 4's "Brookside". He translates from Spanish to English.

Stage Plays

* Someone Else’s Rainbow, 1979
* Setting Out For Ithaca 1980
* Farblas! 1996
* Play Federico For Me, 1998
* Passion for the Impossible, 1999
* Asylum, 2001
* Trying To Be, 2002
* Why Is This Night?, 2003
* Embracing Barbarians, 2004
* The Public 2005 (English Translation from Lorca's El Publico)
* Red Hot & Blue 2007

Radio plays

* Her Name Was Milena 1982
* Last Friday in Jerusalem 1984
* Fanny Rosen's Bad Debt 1985
* After Every Dream 1988
* Facing the Sun 1986
* After Every Dream 1988
* Doesn't Everyone Live in a Ballroom? 1991
* Hangover Square (Dramatised from Patrick Hamilton's Novel) 1994
* The Abduction of Esther Lyons, 1999
* One Pair Of Hands, (5 Part Series) 2001 (adaptation of the novel by Monica Dickens)
* The Sixth Column Has Better Legs,(5 Part Series) 2007

References