Colin Teevan
CV
TV
Writer & Creator & Executive Producer
Producer
Catherine Magee
Director
Catherine Morshead
Starring
Simone Kirby Brian Gleeson
Series Two of the serial drama about the birth of modern Ireland.
Touchpaper, Zodiak Media Ireland
for
RTE
Producer
Catherine Magee, Jane Gogan
Director
Aku Louhimies,
Starring
Charlie Murphy Sarah Greene Brian Gleeson
A returning serial that charts the birth of the Irish nation; the beginning of the end of the British empire, and the creation of Northern Ireland from perspective of a group of friends who lived it.
Touchpaper, Zodiak Media Ireland
for
RTE
Writer & Executive Producer
Creator
Tony Saint & Johannes W. Betz
Director
Rick Ostermann / Matthias Glasner
Bavaria Fiction
for
SKY Atlantic, Hulu
Writer
Director
Kenneth Glenaan
Starring
Aiden Gillan Tom Vaughn-Lawlor
A trilogy of 90-minute dramas charting the emergence of modern Ireland through the mesmeric Charles J Haughey-Ireland's legendary leader and Teisoch- and his personal pursuit of power, wealth and glamour.
Touchpaper/Element
for
RTE
Creator
Barry Simner, Rob Pursey
Producer
Clare Alan
Starring
David Herlihy Simone Lahbib Owen McDonnell Sean McGuley
Episode of the second series of the police drama set on the West Coast of Ireland starring Owen McDonnell.
Touchpaper
for
RTE, ITV
Producer
Matt Strevens
Director
Michael Keillor
Starring
Maxine Peake Rupert Penry-Jones Francis Barber Miranda Raison
Series 3 episode 3 of popular legal drama.
BBC
for
BBC1
Starring
Brenda Blethyn
Crime drama for ITV starring Brenda Blethyn as DI Vera Stanhope, from the novels by Ann Cleeves.
ITV Studios
for
ITV
Producer
Anne Picevic
Irish migrant workers rise to riches through fair means and foul in post war London.
BBC in house
In development
Producer
George Ormond
Original commission for BBC. A young woman doctor returns to the town she grew up in rural Wales to take up practice as the local GP.
BBC Wales
In development
Theatre
Writer
Emperor
(Adaptor)
Creator
Ryszard Kapuściński
Director
Walter Meierjohann
"His Majesty knew that a joke was a dangerous form of opposition."
Master of transformation Kathryn Hunter brings to life an extraordinary fable of corruption, avarice and the collapse of absolute power - from the team behind the international success Kafka’s Monkey.
The Young Vic
Director
Dominic Hill
Starring
Kevin Trainor Siobhan Redmond
Christopher Marlowe's mythic tale of mankind's greed for power gets a modern day twist from Colin Teevan.
West Yorkshire Playhouse and Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
Producer
Soho Theatre
Director
Lucy Pitman-Wallace
The Kingdom vividly captures life as an Irish navvy in the last century – a time of immigration, violence, sex, triumph and, ultimately, tragedy.
Soho Theatre
Producer
Theatre 503
Director
Derek Bond
Starring
Ayesha Antoine Simon Darwen Georgia King Rob Ostlere
Part of Theatre 503's Playlist group of short plays inspired by favourite pieces of music, which premiered at Latitude Festival 2010 and then had a run at Theatre 503
Latitude Festival
Producer
Tricycle Theatre
Director
Nicolas Kent
Part of Tricycle's season on the atomic bomb. When an Israeli and Iranian scientist meet at a conference in Jordan, their meeting has major repercussions for their professional lives, their families and their nations.
Tricycle Theatre
Director
Nicholas Kent & Indu Rubasingham
Starring
Lolita Chakrabati
Play about two Afghan aid workers who disappear whilst distributing rice
Tricycle Theatre
Producer
Debra Hauer
Director
Paul Heritage
Starring
Diogo De Brito Sales Daniel Cerqueira Meline Danielewicz Jeffrey Kisson
Play set in the Amazon and inspired by the life and politics of the Brazilian folk hero Chico Mendes
The Young Vic
Director
Hideki Noda
Starring
Harry Gostelow Kathryn Hunter Hideki Noda Glyn Pritchard
Fourth play in a series of contemporary Noh plays about a woman who is found wandering the streets of Fuchu city with burnt hands and no clue as to her identity
Soho Theatre
Director
Hideki Noda
Starring
Tony Bell Kathryn Hunter Hideki Noda Glyn Pritchard
Play based on a story by Yasutaka Tsutsui about a man who comes home to find his wife and child being held hostage by an escaped murderer.
Soho Theatre
Director
Ian Brown
Starring
Emilio Doorgasingh Gareth Farr Matthew Flynn Gwilym Havard Davies
Play set in Iraq following four British soldiers, a BBC reporter and their Iraqi translator as they embark on an unauthorised mission to make amends for the death of three Bedouin
Courtyard Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse
Producer
Eleanor Lloyd
Director
Sarah Chew
Starring
Greg Hicks
Collection of monologues based on Greek myths
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
Director
Colin Teevan
Starring
Clare Higgins
Commissioned to open the Onassis Programme for the performance of Greek drama the play explores the bleak separation of mother and child
Oxford Playhouse
Director
Mick Gordon
Starring
Aicha Kossoko Jan Knightley Elliot Levey Inika Leigh Wright
Play based on the popular classic of Asian literature which sees us follow Monkey as he struggles to redeem himself after causing chaos in heaven
Young Vic Theatre
Director
Mick Gordon
Starring
Michael Culkin Declan Conlon Monica Dolan Clare Higgins
Play set on Christmas Eve about a couple waiting for the arrival of their son and his new bride
National Theatre
Political satre following the wastrel son of a dying Major
White Memorial Theatre, Clonmel, Ireland
Producer
Galloglass
Director
Simon Bayly
A black comedy set on a cancer ward based on the French Medieval Mardi Gras play Le Bataile de Charnau contre Caresme
Abymil Theatre
Director
Dominic Hill
Writer
Henrik Ibsen
Starring
Keith Fleming Gerry Mulgrew
Modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic verse play
Dundee Rep Theatre
Director
Walter Meierjohann
Writer
Franz Kafka
Starring
Kathryn Hunter
One man show about an ape who has learned to become human to survive, based on the short story A Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka.
The Young Vic
Assistant Director & Production Dramaturg
Director
Peter Hall
Writer
John Barton
Starring
Alyssa Bresnahan Alan Dobie Greg Hicks Annalee Jefferies
Colin also wrote some new material for Sir Peter Hall's production of John Barton's ten-play cycle examining the beginnings, climax and aftermath of the Trojan War
Denver Centre for the Performing Arts
Radio
Writer
Marathon Tales
Tinniswood Award
Winner of the Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Drama script 2014. Original 90 minute play for Radio 3 about professional and amateur marathon runners across time, co-written by Hannah Silva.
Production Company BBC in house
Broadcaster BBC Radio 3
Director
Jeremy Mortimer
Starring
Naill Baggy Derbhle Crotty Toby Jones Gerard McSorley
Part of the New Metamorphoses season of contermpoary reworkings of Ovid's Tales, Myrrah is a 16 year who was abandoned as a baby and is now in the grip of a terrible passion
Production Company BBC
Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
Director
Toby Swift
Full length original play for Radio 3 set in Iraq
Production Company BBC
Broadcaster BBC Radio 3
Contemporary dramatic verse monologue for The Verb
Production Company BBC
Broadcaster BBC Radio 3
Producer
Julian May
An epic poem for BBC3's The Verb
Production Company BBC
Broadcaster BBC Radio 3
Producer
Rob Ketteridge
Monologue for The Verb, BBC Radio 3
Production Company BBC
Broadcaster BBC Radio 3
Director
Toby Swift
Fast paced original play that dips in and out of everyday lives in Belfast to create a picture of the city and its people
Production Company BBC
Broadcaster BBC Radio 3
Producer
Stephen Wright
Radio version of Colin's stage play of the same name for BBC Radio 3
Production Company BBC
Broadcaster BBC Radio 3
Radio version of Colin's stage play, translated into French by Alexandra Poulain
Broadcaster Radio France Culture
Producer
Toby Swift
Original play for BBC Radio 3
Production Company BBC Radio 3
In development