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Theatre, Film and TV
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James
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James Graham is a playwright and film and television writer.
James' play This House premiered at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in September 2012, directed by Jeremy Herrin, and transferred to the Olivier in 2013 where it enjoyed a sell out run and garnered critical acclaim and a huge amount of interest and admiration from current and former MP's for his rendition of life in the House of Commons. It went on to have an Olivier-nominated sell-out revival in the West End in 2017 and it was chosen by popular vote as the best play of the 2010’s for the major theatre publisher Methuen.
Ink, his play about the early days of Rupert Murdoch, opened to critical acclaim at the Almeida and transferred to the West End in September 2017 where it played in the theatre next door to James’ other new play – political romantic comedy Labour of Love - creating theatre history. Labour of Love went on to win an Olivier Award. Ink went on to transfer to Manhattan Theatre Club on Broadway and be nominated for six Tony Awards.
James wrote the book for Finding Neverland the musical with music by Gary Barlow. It opened in Boston in Summer 2014 and transferred to Broadway in Spring 2015.
His first film for television, Caught in a Trap, was broadcast on ITV1 on Boxing Day 2008. His single film Coalition aired on Channel 4 and won plaudits for its retelling of the 2010 general election and the formation of the coalition government.
His most recent film for Channel 4, Brexit: An Uncivil War, tapped into a national conversation, garnering huge public attention and critical acclaim. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and HBO and starred Benedict Cumberbatch. It coincided with James being featured on the leading arts programme Imagine. The show explored James’s influences and his influence. It was nominated for an Emmy for Best Single Film.
His film X and Y was produced by Origin Pictures and BBC Films and starred Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins & Eddie Marsan. He is currently developing films with Lenny Abrahamson, Paul Greengrass and Jeremy Herrin and adapting his play Ink into a screenplay.
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Theatre, Film and TV
Lily Williams
+44 (0)20 7393 4452
Email Lily Williams
It's a sharply written, vibrantly theatrical, boisterously performed piece of work. And while it vividly recaptures the now extinct world of Fleet Street — with its adrenalized and testosterone-heavy mix of news hounds and hacks, idealism and cynicism, professional pride and boozy waggishness — the play's depiction of the rise of a certain brand of populism and its immediately detrimental effect on British society makes it profoundly of the moment.
Demetrios Matheou
The Hollywood Reporter on Ink
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Theatre
Writer
A provocative new play about Charles Ingram, the man convicted of cheating on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises.
Political comedy about the Labour party
The life of Screaming Lord Sutch as told through iconic British comedy styles of the 20th century.
A dramatic investigation of the digital age
A Real time play for television and theatre.
A Paines Plough production about a young urban guerilla group that mobilises against MPs, embassies, police and pageant queens
A musical about the playwright who wrote Peter Pan, with music and lyrics by Gary Barlow
Finding Neverland was nominated at the Drama League Awards 2014-2015 for Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical and Distinguished Performance Award.
Play for young people
A love story between two people who suffer from a terrible fear of falling things and live lives trapped by their condition
Television
Writer & Creator
TV Series based on James' play
A one part special telling the story of political adviser and strategist Dominic Cummings, in a revealing behind-the-scenes look at the Leave campaign running up to the 2016 European referendum.
Writer
Film
Writer
Adaptation of James' play of the same name.
Adaptation of Neal Bascomb’s book of the same name.
New big-screen adaptation of George Orwell’s classic dystopian science-fiction novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Adaptation of Mikey Walsh's autobiography about growing up in a Romany Gypsy family
Coming of age feature about young maths prodigies on a trip to China that was listed on the Britlist 2011
Radio
Writer
James Graham's short drama explores how the 'movement of people' isn't just a distant, global phenomenon but something that's affecting many young people here and now.
Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
Broadcaster BBC Radio 4