Who's Who Entry 2008

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MOORE, John, (Jonathan Moore); actor; writer; director; b 25 Nov. 1963; s of Richard and Nora Moore. Educ: St Elpheges, Wallington; Roundshaw Sch., Wallington; Croydon Art Coll. Writer: plays: 1st play aged 11, Hornus’ Poem; Sea Change, 1977; Obstruct the doors, cause delay and be Dangerous..., 1980; Street Captives, Edinburgh Fest., transf. Royal Exchange, 1981; Treatment, Donmar, 1982 (Edinburgh Fest. Fringe First award; filmed for TV); The Hooligan Nights (NT commn), 1985; Behind Heaven, Royal Exchange, transf. Donmar, 1986; Regeneration, 1989; This Other Eden, Soho Th., 1990; Fall From Light, 2002; The Bacchae (adaptation), 2003–05; libretto: Stewart Copeland’s Horse Opera (televised, also actor), 1992; directed: Turnage’s Greek (also writer of adaptation from play), Munich Biennale (Best Dir award), Edinburgh Fest., 1988–90 (dir. TV film, Royal Phil. Soc. Best Film award); Elegy for Young Lovers, La Fenice, Venice, 1989; 63 Dream Palace, Munich Biennale (Best Dir award) and German TV, 1990; Baa Baa Black Sheep, Opera North, Cheltenham Fest., 1993; Cask of Amontillado, Holders, Barbados, 1993; East and West (also writer of text), Almeida, 1994; Life with An Idiot, ENO, Scottish Opera, 1995; James MacMillan’s Inez de Castro, Scottish Opera, Edinburgh Internat. Fest., 1996; Inkle and Yarico, Holders Easter Season, Barbados, 1997; Mottke the Thief (also writer of adaptation from novel by Schalom Asch), Bonn Opera, 1998; Nyman’s Facing Goya, Santiago del Compostella, Perrelada Fest., 2001; Die Versicherung, State Th., Darmstadt, 2002; Magic Flute (also trans. of spoken text), Scottish Opera, 2003; Sex, Chips and Rock ’n’ Roll, Royal Exchange, 2005; The Soldier’s Tale (also actor), Savannah Fest., Georgia, 2006; The Ballad of Elizabeth Sulky Mouth, Greenwich, 2006; actor: theatre includes leading roles in: The Gorky Brigade, Royal Court, 1982; Venice Preserv’d, Almeida, 1985; Treatment, Gate, Donmar, Edinburgh Fest., 1986; Behind Heaven, Royal Exchange, Donmar, 1986; The Art of Success, RSC, 1987; The Idiot, Barbican, 1990; Dead Funny, Salisbury Playhouse, Th. Clwyd, 1998; Misalliance, 1998, The School of Night, 1999, Chichester Fest. Th.; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2001, Macbeth, 2002, Arcola; Round the Horne, West End and No 1 UK tour, 2004; 2Graves (one-man play), Edinburgh Fest., transf. Arts Th., 2006; Holding Fire!, Shakespeare’s Globe, 2007; television includes: Inside Story, 1986; Bleak House (series), 1986; Jack the Ripper (series), 1988; Roger Roger (two series), 1999, 2003; The People’s Harry Enfield, 2001; Foyle’s War, 2003; films include: My Beautiful Laundrette, 1985. Collaborated on theatre pieces with band Test Dept and mems of rock band Killing Joke and Jah Wobble; contrib. to BBC TV and radio arts discussion progs. Vis. Sen. Lectr, RCM, 2006; Guest Lectr, Drama Centre, London, 2006. Publication: Jonathan Moore: three plays, 2002. Recreations: thinking, hanging out with friends, reading, food, football, underwater knitting, plankton wrangling. Address: (writing) c/o Julia Kreitman, The Agency, 24 Pottery Lane, Holland Park, W11 4LZ. T: (020) 7727 1346; e-mail: info@theagency.co.uk; (acting) c/o Meg Poole, Richard Stone Partners, 2 Henrietta Street, WC2E 8PS. T: (020) 7497 0869; (opera) Performing Arts, 6 Windmill Street, W1T 2JB. T: (020) 7255 7362; e-mail: richard@performing-arts.co.uk. Club: Century.