James Graham

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Labour Of Love

Writer

Brexit: An Uncivil War

Writer & Creator

Ink

Writer

Theatre

Writer 

Quiz
Director Daniel Evans

A provocative new play about Charles Ingram, the man convicted of cheating on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Chichester Festival Theatre and Noël Coward Theatre
Ink
Nominated: Six Tony Awards 2019, Nominated: 'Best Play' Evening Standard Awards 2017
Director James Graham
Writer James Graham
Starring
  • Bertie Carvel
  • Richard Coyle
  • Pearl Chanda
  • Jonny Lee Miller
    •  

    Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. 


    Almeida Theatre and Duke Of York Theatre; Manhattan Theatre Club, Broadway
    Labour Of Love
    WINNER: 'Best New Comedy' Olivier Awards 2018
    Producer Michael Grandage Company/ Headlong
    Director Jeremy Herrin
    Starring
  • Martin Freeman
  • Tamsin Greig
    •  

    Political comedy about the Labour party 

    Noël Coward Theatre
    This House
    Nominated: 'Best Play' Evening Standard Awards and Olivier Awards
    Starring
  • Phil Daniels
  • Vincent Franklin
  • Philip Glenister
  •  
    Set in Westminster This House strips politics back to the practical realities of parliament
    National Theatre, Minerva Theatre Chichester (Revival), Garrick Theatre and UK Tour
    Monster Raving Loony
    Producer Simon Stokes
    Starring
  • Joseph Alessi
  • Joanna Brookes
  • Jack Brown
  • Samuel James
  • Vivienne Acheampong
  • Tom Attwood
    •  

    The life of Screaming Lord Sutch as told through iconic British comedy styles of the 20th century. 

    Theatre Royal Plymouth and Soho Theatre
    Privacy
    Director Josie Rourke
    Starring
  • Gunnar Cauthery
  • Paul Chahidi
  • Nina Sosanya
  • Daniel Radcliffe
    •  

    A dramatic investigation of the digital age

    Donmar Warehouse and Public Theatre Off Broadway, NYC
    The Vote
    Director Josie Rourke
    Starring
  • Judi Dench
  • Mark Gatiss
  • Catherine Tate
    •  

    A Real time play for television and theatre. 

    Donmar Warehouse
    The Angry Brigade
    Director James Grieve
    Writer James Graham
    Starring
  • Pearl Chanda
  • Mark Arends
  • Lizzy Watts
  • Harry Melling
    •  

    A Paines Plough production about a young urban guerilla group that mobilises against MPs, embassies, police and pageant queens

    Theatre Royal Plymouth
    Finding Neverland
    Director Diane Paulus
    Starring
  • Kelsey Grammer
  • Laura Michelle Kelly
  • Matthew Morrison
    •  

    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. 

    American Repertory Theater in Massachusetts, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway
    Sweet Bird of Youth
    Director Marianne Elliott
    Starring
  • Charles Aitken
  • Daniel Betts
  • Kim Cattrall
  • Louise Dylan
    •  
    Dramaturg
    The Old Vic
    66 Books
    Hand-Me-Downs was written as part of the epic performance cycle commissioned by the Bush to open their new theatre
    The Bush Theatre, London
    Bassett
    Director Anthony Banks

    Play for young people

    National Theatre Connections. National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic.
    The Man
    Director Kate Wasserberg
    Starring
  • Samuel Barnett
  • Leander Deeny
  • George Rainsford
  • James Graham
    •  
    One man reviews his life of the past year when completing his tax return - with the help of the audience
    Finborough Theatre
    The Whisky Taster
    Director James Grieve
    Starring
  • Samuel Barnett
  • Chris Larkin
  • Simon Merrells
  • Kate O'Flynn
    •  
    Two Generation Y-ers fall in love at an advertising agency
    Bush Theatre, London
    A History of Falling Things
    Director Kate Wasserberg
    Starring
  • Di Botcher
  • Philip Bretherton
  • Kate McGuinness
  • Francois Pandolfo
    •  

    A love story between two people who suffer from a terrible fear of falling things and live lives trapped by their condition

    Clwyd Theatre Cymru
    SuddenLossOfDignity.com
    Starring
  • Katherine Drysdale
  • Felix Scott
  • Hugh Skinner
    •  
    Co-written play for The Bush and the Latitude Festival
    The Bush Theatre
    Sons of York
    Director Kate Wasserberg
    Starring
  • Barry Aird
  • Colette Kelly
  • William Maxwell
  • Kazia Pelka
    •  
    Set during the winter of discontent, three generations of a family in Hull come to terms with the changes in the country
    Finborough Theatre
    Tory Boyz
    Producer National Youth Theatre
    Director Guy Hargreaves
    Play looking at prejudice, tolerance and tradition in the British Tory Party
    Soho Theatre
    Eden's Empire
    Winner of the Catherine Johnson Best Play Award
    Director Gemma Fairlie
    Starring
  • Daisy Beaumont
  • Michael Kirk
  • Heywood Morse
  • Jamie Newell
    •  
    Political thriller about Anthony Eden and the Suez Crisis
    Finborough Theatre
    Little Madam
    Director Kate Wasserberg
    Starring
  • Catherine Skinner
  • Simon Yadoo
    •  
    Margaret Thatcher reverts to her childhood and forsees the story of her career
    Finborough Theatre
    Albert's Boy
    Director Max Lewendel
    Starring
  • Gerard Monaco
  • Victor Spinetti
    •  
    Albert Einstein is forced to confront his past when he receives an unexpected visitor
    Finborough Theatre
    Coal Not Dole
    Starring
  • Mark Joseph
  • Tess Mitchell
  • Kathryn Oliver
    •  
    Play inspired by the experiences of a former mining community
    Edinburgh Festival

    TV

    Writer & Creator 

    Sherwood

    Drama about two shocking murders which fracture a community, set in the Nottinghamshire village where James grew up. 

    House Productions for BBC One
    Shooting 2021
    Quiz
    Director Stephen Frears
    Starring
  • Matthew Macfadyen
  • Michael Sheen
  • Helen McCrory
  • Sian Clifford
    •  

    TV Series based on James' play

    Leftbank Pictures for ITV and AMC for ITV, AMC
    Brexit: An Uncivil War
    Producer Lynn Horsford
    Director Toby Haynes
    Starring
  • Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Rory Kinnear
    •  

    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. 

    House Productions for Channel 4
    Caught In A Trap
    Producer Jill Green
    Director Michael Samuels
    Starring
  • Jim Carter
  • Connie Fisher
  • Geraldine James
    •  
    An Elvis-obsessed parking attendent steals from the parking metres to fund her love of 'The King'
    Greenlit Productions for ITV1
    See Now
    Coalition
    Winner of the RTS Best Single Drama in 2016
    Creator James Graham
    Producer Sarah Curtis, Dixie Linder (producing), Nick Marston (Exec. producer)
    Director Alex Holmes

    Explores the rise of Nick Clegg during the build-up to the coalition. 

    Cuba Pictures for Channel 4
    See Now
    The Lobbyist
    Cuba Pictures

    Writer 

    Prisoner's Wives
    Producer Anna Ferguson
    Starring
  • Jonas Armstrong
  • Natalie Gavin
  • Pippa Haywood
  • Emma Rigby
    •  
    Drama about wives of prisoners set in Sheffield
    Tiger Aspect for BBC1
    Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Series 4, Episode 6
    Creator Belle de Jour
    Starring
  • Billie Piper
    •  
    Tiger Aspect for ITV2
    The Crown: Season 3 Episode 6
    Creator Peter Morgan
    Director Christian Schwochow
    Starring
  • Olivia Colman
  • Tobias Menzies
  • Helena Bonham Carter
  • Josh O'Connor
    •  

    Popular Netflix drama about the Royal Family.

    Left Bank for Netflix

    Film

    Writer 

    Ink
    Producer Michael Ellenberg

    Adaptation of James' play of the same name.

    Bron Media
    In development
    The Grand Escape
    Director Lenny Abrahamson

    Adaptation of Neal Bascomb’s book of the same name.

    Film 4
    Element Pictures
    In development
    1984
    Producer Scott Rudin
    Director Paul Greengrass

    New big-screen adaptation of George Orwell’s classic dystopian science-fiction novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
    Gypsy Boy

    Adaptation of Mikey Walsh's autobiography about growing up in a Romany Gypsy family

    BBC Films
    In development
    X and Y
    Director Morgan Matthews
    Starring
  • Asa Butterfield
  • Sally Hawkins
  • Eddie Marsan
  • Rafe Spall
    •  

    Coming of age feature about young maths prodigies on a trip to China that was listed on the Britlist 2011

    BBC Films
    Origin Pictures

    Radio

    Writer 

    Where Shall I Go? What Shall I Do?
    Writer 
    Director Sasha Yevtushenko.

    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.

    Production Company BBC
    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
    Dividing the Union

    The Grudge
    Director Peter Kavanagh

    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
    Albert's Boy
    Director Peter Kavanagh
    Starring
  • Richard Laing
  • Victor Spinetti
    •  
    Adaptation of his stage play about Albert Einstein.
    Production Company BBC Radio 4
    How You Feelin' Alf?
    Producer Peter Kavanagh
    Starring
  • Annabelle Dowler
  • David Hargreaves
  • David Ryall
  • Malcolm Tierney
    •  
    Set during the winter of discontent the play is about Labour stalwart Alf and his struggle to vote

    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4