Scottish playwright, radio dramatist and writer
Jules Horne (born 1963) is a Scottish playwright, radio dramatist and fiction writer.
Jules Horne was born in Hawick, Scotland, and lived in Bonn, Bern and Reading before returning to the Scottish Borders. Following a German degree at Oxford, she worked in Germany and Switzerland as a translator, editor and BBC radio journalist. She returned to the UK in 2000 to write full-time.
Jules was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 2001 and the National Library of Scotland Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award in 2002.
Her first full-length play, Gorgeous Avatar, was performed by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 2006, and in Japanese at AI Hall, Itami, Osaka in 2007, and by Heidelberg University's Schauspielgruppe Anglistik in 2008. Plays for radio include Left at the Lights (BBC Radio Scotland), Inner Critic (BBC 7), A Place in the Rain (BBC Radio 4), Overdue South (BBC Radio Scotland), Life: An Audio Tour (BBC Radio 4), Small Blue Thing (BBC Radio Scotland) and Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine (BBC Radio 4). She was the Scottish Arts Council's Virtual Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway from 2005 to 2008, and has taught playwriting in schools as part of the Traverse's Class Act project. She teaches creative writing as an Associate Lecturer at Open University.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Her play Allotment for Nutshell Theatre won a Scotsman Fringe First at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the 2011 Fringe Award by the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts.[7][8]
Radio Plays
Theatre
Short stories
- Agnus Dei, Macalllan Shorts 1 Polygon, 1998 ISBN 978-0-7486-6245-6
- Life Kit #1, Franklin's Grace Fish, 2002 ISBN 978-0-9542586-0-3
- Radar Bird, Macallan Shorts V, Polygon, 2003 ISBN 978-0-7486-6329-3
- The Case Against Wings, Chapman 2004 ISBN 978-1-903700-10-5
- Nanonovels, Product magazine, 2004–2008 ISSN 1468-9901
- Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher[38]
Journalism
- Open University learning is a joy – Jules Horne, The Guardian, 18 June 2010
References
- ^ Jules Horne CV – TextHouse Archived 12 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Jules Horne biography – Alan Brodie Representation". Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
- ^ Jules Horne biography – Scottish Book Trust Archived 4 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jules Horne biography – doollee.com
- ^ Jules Horne biography – TextHouse
- ^ Teen Playwrights Take-Over the Stage – Class Act 2005 – Lorna Lythgoe, Edinburgh Guide, 3 December 2005 Archived 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Revealed: The second round of Scotsman Fringe First winners – Andrew Eaton-Lewis, 19 August 2011
- ^ Sustainable Production Award Announced for 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, September 1st, 2011
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Life: An Audio Tour
- ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Small Blue Thing
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine
- ^ URsTV – Play on Bike Inventor Macmillan Archived 31 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Border Fusion – Thelma Good, Edinburgh Guide, 7 June 2001 Archived 27 October 2004 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Borders Fusion, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 8 Jun 2001
- ^ Gorgeous Avatar – Thelma Good, Edinburgh Guide, 9 May 2006 Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Gorgeous Avatar – Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 12 May 2006
- ^ Gorgeous Avatar – Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 15 May 2006
- ^ Finding love on a laptop – The Scotsman, 19 May 2006
- ^ 2006 Tour Details of Traverse Theatre's production of Gorgeous Avatar Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kirkpatrick Macmillan play wheels into Penpont – Sara Bain, Dumfries & Galloway Standard, 8 May 2009
- ^ Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser, 20 May 2009 Archived 26 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Original Bicycle Festival Report (pages 10–11)". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- ^ Allotment – Nutshell Theatre
- ^ Nutshell Theatre's Allotment: Bring your own veg to the show that's a grower – Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 8 August 2011
- ^ Edinburgh Festival 2011: Allotment, Assembly, Inverleith Allotments, review – Louise Gray, The Telegraph, 10 Aug 2011
- ^ Allotment – Review by Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 19 August 2011 Archived 5 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Thread – Nutshell Theatre
- ^ Thread – Nutshell Theatre
- ^ Theatre review: Thread; Assembly St Mark's' – Emma Hay, The Scotsman, 16 August 2012
- ^ Thread – Tron Theatre, Glasgow
- ^ Life in a nutshell – Thom Dibdin, All Edinburgh Theatre, 24 September 2013
- ^ Handfast – TalkFest in the Borders
- ^ Handfast – Nutshell Theatre
- ^ Handfast – Summerhall
- ^ Review: Handfast by Nutshell Theatre – David Pollock, Fest, 5 August 2018
- ^ Handfast – Martin Gray, All Edinburgh Theatre, 11 August 2018
- ^ Edinburgh Fringe 2018: Handfast – by Jenni Davidson, Fringe Review, 17 August 2018
- ^ Is there a better reference for Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher?
