Sheila Dewey is a British playwright

Playwright

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, writing for theatre since 1982. In 1991 she received the Thames Television

Thames Television

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 Theatre Writers' Award, and in 1992 was awarded an Arts Council

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 Bursary. She has been short-listed for the Meyer-Whitworth Award.

Her plays include a number of works produced at the Warehouse Theatre

Warehouse Theatre

The Warehouse Theatre is a professional producing theatre with one hundred seats in the centre of the London Borough of Croydon, south London, England based in an oak-beamed former cement Victorian warehouse...

 in Croydon

Croydon

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, including Turner's Crossing, Eva and the Cabin Boy - about the Loch Ard

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 shipwreck - and the biographical play Bumps, on the relationship between Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll

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 and Edwin Lutyens

Edwin Lutyens

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She was Resident Playwright, Literary Manager and Associate Director at the Warehouse Theatre, where she ran the Writers' Workshop over a decade. Previous to this, Dewey was one of the founders of the Tabard Theatre

Tabard Theatre

The Tabard Theatre is an intimate, 80 seat theatre located in Chiswick in the London Borough of Hounslow. Close to Turnham Green Underground station, it is situated above the Tabard public house which was built in 1880 by the architect Norman Shaw for the Bedford Park Estate...

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Plays

• Workspace (Hounslow Drama Workshop Tour, 1983)
• The Green Man (Tabard Theatre, 1985)
• The Portrait of a Mute Woman (Tabard Theatre, 1986)
• The Last Ditch (Tabard Theatre 1986/ Thorndike Young Peoples Theatre 1989)
• Out of Sight (Tabard Theatre, 1987)
• Who Pays the Piper (Popova Theatre Company, 1988)
• Wednesday's Child (Popova Theatre Company,1989)
• Pavane (Tabard Theatre, 1989)
• The Bus to Wanstock (Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company, 1990)
• The Girl Ship (Solent Peoples' Theatre, 1991)
• Turners Crossing (Warehouse Theatre, 1992)
• Eva and the Cabin Boy (Warehouse Theatre, 1994)
• Midsummer Madness (Solent Peoples' Theatre, 1994)
• Orange Nell (Characters Company, 1996)
• The Lost Star (Woodside International School, 2000)
• Orange Moll (Warehouse Theatre, 1998)
• Bumps (Warehouse Theatre/Museum of Garden History
  Museum of Garden History
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  /The King's Head Theatre
  The King's Head Theatre
  The King's Head Theatre, founded in 1970 by Dan Crawford, is an Off-West End venue in London. It was the first pub theatre in the UK. Adam Spreadbury-Maher became Artistic Director in March 2010 .-Background:...
  
  , 2001)

External links

• Sheila Dewey at doollee.com http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsD/dewey-sheila.html
• Out of Sight