Tim Fountain
| Tim Fountain | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Tim Fountain 23 December 1967 Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England |
| Occupation | Playwright, Writer |
| Website | www.timfountain.co.uk |
Tim Fountain (born 23 December 1967 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire) is a British writer.
An only child, Tim Fountain was brought up in a pub in the village of West Ardsley, West Yorkshire. He was educated at Batley Grammar School, Wheelwright sixth form college and Hull University.
Tim Fountain's first international success was Resident Alien. Based on the life and writings of Quentin Crisp, starring Bette Bourne and directed by Mike Bradwell, the show opened at the Bush Theatre, London, before transferring to New York Theatre Workshop where it played a sell-out season and won two OBIE Awards (performance and design). The show subsequently won a Herald Angel award for Bette Bourne at the Edinburgh Festival and toured across America, Australia and the UK. It has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Fountain hit the headlines when his one-man show, Sex Addict opened at the Edinburgh Festival before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre in London, and later the Schaubühne in Berlin. It became a media sensation. During the show, he solicited sexual partners on-line and the audience got to choose who he had sex with. The Daily Mail devoted an entire page to the show under the headline "Curtain Up on Depravity".
Fountain's other plays include Tchaikovsky in the Park which played a season at the Bridewell Theatre in London. Last Bus From Bradford (winner of the Pink Paper Play Award) which was staged at the Drill Hall in London. Julie Burchill Is Away, about the controversial newspaper columnist Julie Burchill, starring Jackie Clune, Deep Rimming in Poplar starring Bette Bourne, and the stage adaptation of Toby Young's book, How To Lose Friends and Alienate People starring Jack Davenport all of which played seasons at Soho Theatre in London's West End. Fountain adapted the Oscar-winning movie Midnight Cowboy for the stage starring Con O Neil and Charles Aitken. for the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh. His play about Rock Hudson and his agent Henry Willson, Rock, opened In Liverpool before transferring to the Oval House Theatre in London starring Bette Bourne as Hudson's agent Henry Willson and Michael Xavier as Hudson. This play went on to win 'Best online drama' at the BBC audio Drama Awards 2012. His adaptation of "Dandy in the Underworld" by Sebastian Horsley starring Milo Twomey played a season at Soho Theatre. His comedy about Sex Tourism in Egypt, Queen of the Nile, opened at Hull truck Theatre in 2013 directed by Mike Bradwell and starring Dudley Sutton
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