Script Yorkshire Management Group
Daniel Bye
Chair of Script Yorkshire
Daniel Bye is a writer, director and performer based in York, North Yorkshire. He trained with Philippe Gaulier and John Wright and last summer directed Can of Worms for Strange Bedfellows, a new clown/physical comedy troupe based in York and Bristol. On its premiere in Edinburgh the show won a slew of four-star reviews and a Fringe First nomination. As Co-Artistic Director of Silver Tongue Theatre Dan has directed four plays by Oliver Emanuel: Iz, Shiver, Bella and the Beautiful Knight (which saw the company hailed as “the future of British theatre” by The Times) and most recently Man Across the Way, which will tour in autumn 2008. Also for the company he has written The Fire Play and Sanctuary, a site-specific piece recently specially commissioned and created for a church in York, which he also directed.
Education and community work is an integral part of Dan’s professional practice. Recently, projects have been run for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Sheffield Crucible and the Oldham Coliseum as well as his own youth theatre company in York. He has taught at the Universities of Leeds and York, runs a number of writers’ groups and is Chair of Script Yorkshire.
When he can find the time he also keeps a blog, which you can read at: www.pessimismofintellectoptimismofwill.blogspot.com.
Gary Brown
Trustee
Gary Brown is an experienced TV and radio writer. His television credits include EastEnders, Brookside and Coronation Street. He has written over thirty hours of broadcast radio and is currently a BBC Radio Drama Producer.
Rupert Creed
Trustee
Rupert has worked for over 25 years as a professional playwright and theatre director. He was co-founder and Artistic Director of Hull-based Remould Theatre Company for 16 years, writing and directing stage plays in partnership with groups and organisations in the local community. He wrote a series of ‘oral history’ documentary plays based on the working lives of local fishermen, nurses, social workers, the police and journalists, which toured nationally and internationally. He has also written and directed large cast community plays for Howden, Hull, Bridlington and Dorchester in Dorset. Rupert has directed large cast musicals at HMP Everthorpe & the Wolds Prison in East Yorkshire and wrote ‘Slavers’ for Hull Truck Youth Theatre, which became the first play to be performed at the Houses of Parliament in 2007.
Rupert has also written and presented a number of features for BBC Radio 4, including‘Turning the Tide’- about the 1968 Hull trawler tragedy, and ‘Take the Money-Open the Box!’- a series focusing on risk-taking. He was also Producer of BBC Hull’s digital storytelling project ‘Telling Lives’, and Regional Broadcast Coordinator on the BBC ’s ‘Peoples War’ project in Manchester.
He has worked as Outreach Officer for Script Yorkshire and is Deputy Chair of the Writers Guild of Great Britain.
Ben Jancovich
Trustee
Ben Jancovich is a freelance Script Editor, Director, Reader and Dramaturg.
His main client is currently the National Theatre, with whom he is Senior Reader. Previously he has been Associate Director (Theatre) on Flight 5065/London Eye Project, Literary Manager of Hampstead Theatre, and Literary Assistant at The Royal Shakespeare Company.
In television he has worked in Drama Script Development and Production with Company Pictures (Producers of SHAMELESS and SKINS), Channel 4, The BBC and Thames Talkback. His directing Credits include FAIR SLAUGHTER (Howard Barker), ZIMBABWE BOY (adap. Steve Keyworth) and CRIES OF THE CRICKETS (Jean Louis N Tadi).He wrote the Theatre Section of the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook (1998 - 2003), sat on the Arts Council' s New Theatre Writing Panel (1997 2002) and chaired the judging panel for the Wolff Whiting Award for 2007 and 2008.
Michael Stewart
Trustee
Michael Stewart is an award winning writer, born and brought up in Salford, who moved to Yorkshire in 1995 and is now based in Bradford . He has written several full length stage plays, one of which, Karry Owky, was joint winner of the King’s Cross Award for New Writing, as well as securing work in radio and television. He was the winner of the BBC Alfred Bradley Award in 2003 and is currently under commission with Chol Theatre. His latest play, Brood, premieres at the Albany in London for a three week run starting 28 July 2008 .
He was writer in residence at Theatre in the Mill in Bradford, and is now senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield. He is the editor of Grist (www.hud.ac.uk/grist) and under the banner of ‘Dark & Dirty’ is exploring the hinterland of narrative art (www.darkanddirty.co.uk).
His fiction has been published widely in anthologies and magazines, including Route, Leaf Books, Brand Magazine and Aesthetica.
If you would like to join the management group as a Trustee, or would like to know more about Script Yorkshire's management, please email: info@scriptyorkshire.co.uk.
Further information about what is required of a charity trustee is available at the Governance Hub website: www.governancehub.org.uk
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