Kevin Elyot
| Kevin Elyot | |
|---|---|
| Born |
18 July 1951 Birmingham, England, UK |
| Died | 7 June 2014 (aged 62) London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Playwright, screenwriter |
Kevin Elyot (18 July 1951 – 7 June 2014) was a British playwright, screenwriter and actor. His most notable works include the play My Night with Reg and the film Clapham Junction. His stage work has been performed by leading theatre companies including the Royal Court, National Theatre, Bush Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Warehouse and in the West End.
Kevin Elyot was born in the Birmingham suburb of Handsworth, West Midlands, England on 18 July 1951. He grew up as a member of the Anglo-Catholic church of St Peter's choir, in which he sang in the third performance of Britten's War Requiem and studied the piano. He studied at King Edward's school in Birmingham where he acted and played Desdemona.
As children he and his sister were regularly taken to the theatre. He cited a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon when he was around 10 years old, to see a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Richard III starring Christopher Plummer and Eric Porter, as the 'start of my love affair with the place', and afterwards he would take himself on the bus to Stratford to go to the theatre.
He went on to study at the University of Bristol, from where he graduated with a Theatre Studies degree in 1973.
He began his theatre career as an actor, working regularly at London's Bush Theatre from 1976, with the pioneering company Gay Sweatshop, and at the King's Head Theatre. Following encouragement from the Bush Theatre's artistic team, Kevin submitted his first play to them, then titled Cosy. The play opened on 3 November 1982 under the title Coming Clean, in a production directed by David Hayman. The play tackled sexual relationships in a period when Aids was still a rumour in Britain, and it won the Samuel Beckett Award.
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