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Simon Bent is a British screenwriter and playwright, notable for work including BBC TV drama Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006), the screenplay for the feature film Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000), and the Joe Orton biographical play Prick Up Your Ears based on John Lahr's book.[1][2]

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Simon Bent
Occupation	Screenwriter, playwright
Language	English
Nationality	British

Theatrical productions

He wrote the theatre adaptation of A Prayer for Owen Meany (2002), staged at the Royal National Theatre and in America in Washington, Boston, Philadelphia.^{[citation needed]} Elling (2007) opened at the Bush Theatre with John Simm and Jonathan Cecil[3] and transferred to the Trafalgar Studios; later it was produced in Australia and on Broadway.^{[citation needed]} Prick Up Your Ears was produced in 2009 at the Comedy Theatre with Matt Lucas.[4][5] The Tall Boy, 2019.[6]

Plays

• "Knuckle Butty"
• "Wigan kiss"
• "Evacuees" Spectrum Theatre Company
• "Full Fathom Five" Royal National Theatre Studio
• "The Blood of Others" Royal National Theatre Studio, Arcola Theatre,2005
• "Bad Company", Royal National Theatre 1991, Bush Theatre 1994,https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-the-last-resort-bad-company-the-bush-1393706.htmlknuckle
• "Goldhawk Road",(1996), Bush Theatre
• "Wasted" Old Red Lion Theatre 1993
• "A Prayer for Owen Meany", (2002) Royal National Theatre
• "The Associate" (2002), Royal National Theatre[7]
• "The Escapologist" Suspect Culture, Theatre Royal Plymouth,2006
• "Shelter" Royal National Studio, This England, 1990; Royal National Theatre, BT Connections, 1998
• "Under the Black Flag", Globe Theatre 2006,https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/jul/23/theatre
• "Branded", Old Vic, New Voices, 2008
• "Elling", Bush Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Ethel Barrymore Theatre,
• "Accomplicies" Sheffield Crucible 2000,https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2000/nov/04/theatre.artsfeatures
• "Sugar, Sugar" Bush Theatre 1998
• "The Mighty Walzer" Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester 2016,https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jul/06/the-mighty-walzer-review-howard-jacobson-royal-exchange-manchester
• "The Tall Boy", for Tandy Cronyn 2014

Television and film

• Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000)
• "Beau Brummel:This Charming Man" (2006)
• "The Yellow House" (2007)
• "Sex, The City and Me"(2007)

Awards

He was nominated for the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer at the 2003 BAFTA Awards, for Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry.^{[citation needed]}, ELLING, Winner Best Comedy, Whatsonstage Award 2008

References

https://www.jimmulligan.co.uk/interview/simon-bent-shelter

External links

• Simon Bent at IMDb
• Details of plays by Simon Bent

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