Biography

Simon Blake is an award winning writer, director and producer.

Simon has produced films and music promos both in Britain and America. Winning Best Short and Best Screenplay for his film Awayday at Cinema Jove, T
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he Valencia Film Festival. Awayday was broadcast on Channel 4 and was chosen by the British Council for the programme “Best of British” being screened at more than fifty festivals worldwide.

Simon wrote Heaven’s Only Daughter, a feature film for the independent film maker Philip Harder and has also written a further four short films.

Simon has also produced and directed documentaries and promotional films for The Roundhouse and charities such as The Mental Health Foundation and Scope. He has also written lyrics with co-songwriter Max Rademacher of Maxim Rad and The Rad Orchestra.

Simon was Artistic Director of the Theatre Company Changeinspeak between 1989 and 2002 performing at venues such as BAC and The Young Vic.

Simon currently has two feature film projects in development, Reality Cheque, a dark comedy written with Karl Theobald and a thriller, Lazarus Man, adapted from his own stage play.

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“A deserved reputation for developing a unique style of theatre, a dynamic fusion of music, narrative and the visual” TIME OUT
“Fine passages of writing from comic patter to poetic soliloquies….Blake’s direction is inspired.”
THE TIMES
“A series of slick and clever vignettes inspired by classic pop songs….An outstanding play imaginatively written and directed by Simon Blake”
THE INDEPENDENT.