Stephen Wyatt was born in Beckenham, Kent and brought up in Ealing in West London. He was educated at Latymer Upper School and then went to Clare College, Cambridge.
After graduating, he stayed on to complete a doctoral dissertation, The Victorian Extravaganza 1830-1885, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. While at Cambridge, he directed the 1973 Footlights Revue, Every Packet Carries a Government Health Warning, as well as productions of The Mikado, Handel’s Semele and Verdi’s I Due Foscari. His first full length comedy, Exit, Pursued by a Bear, was produced at the Edinburgh Festival in 1973.
After a brief spell as Lecturer in Drama at Glasgow University, he began his career as a playwright in 1975 as writer/researcher with the Belgrade Coventry Theatre in Education team. In 1982 and 1983 he was Resident Writer with the London Bubble Theatre.
Stephen has worked widely as a freelance playwright in theatre, radio and television ever since. He also has considerable experience as a teacher, workshop leader and script reader and in the creation of audio guides. In 2008, his play, Memorials to the Missing, won the Tinniswood Award for best original radio script of 2007 as well as Silver in the Best Drama category of the 2008 Sony Radio Academy Awards. He has just completed two years as Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Sussex.
Radio Plays
- Help Stamp Out Quicksand (BBC Radio 4, 1977)
- The Wise Woman of Bayswater (R4, 1980)
- Siren Song (R4, 1986)
- Piglaw (R4, 1989)
- The Organgrinder's Monkey (R4, 1990)
- Memoirs of a Midget (From De La Mare. Classic Serial. R4, 1993)
- The Amazons (Radio 3, 1995)
- Fairest Isle (Radio 3, 1995. Sony Radio Award Winner)
- Dead Souls (From Gogol. Classic Serial. R4, 1995. Writer's Guild Award Shortlist)
- Christmas Eve (From Gogol. R4, 1995)
- The Ladies' Paradise (From Zola. Classic Erial. R4, 1997)
- Net Suicide (Fear on Four. R4, 1997)
- The Speculator (After Balzac. World Service, 1997)
- Sketches by Boz Series 1 (Adapted from Dickens. R4, 1998)
- Sketches by Boz Series 2 (Adapted from Dickens. R4, 1999)
- Gray's Elegy (R4, 2000. With Pier Productions)
- Tales the Countess Told (R4, 2001)
- Tales from Thackeray (R4, 2001)
- Over The Hills And Far Away (Episode of Soldier,Soldier a drama documentary. R4, 2002)
- Agnes Beaumont by Herself (R4, 2002)
- Party Animal (Friday Play. R4, 2003. Nominated for Peter Tinniswood Award)
- Gilbert without Sullivan - Series 1 (Adapted from W.S.Gilbert. Series 1 2003.)
- Gilbert without Sullivan - Series 2 ( Adapted from W.S.Gilbert. Series 2 2004/5)
- The Blotting Book (From E.F.Benson. Saturday Play, R4, 2003)
- Sour Beer (Episode of Soldier, Sailor a drama documentary. R4, 2003)
- The Old Wives' Tale (From Arnold Bennett. 15 episodes. R4, 2004)
- A Game of Marbles (Afternoon Theatre. R4, 2004)
- Vanity Fair (From Thackeray. 20 episodes. R4, 2004)
- Dr Brighton and Mr Harding (R4 Afternoon Theatre, 2005)
- Oblomov (From Goncharov. R4 Classic Serial, 2005)
- Tinkling the Ivories (R4 Reading Dora Bryan 2006)
- Tom Jones (2007) (From Fielding. R4 Classic Serial, 2007)
- Memorials to the Missing (R4 Afternoon Theatre, 2007)
- Ho! Ho! Ho! (R4. Reading "Cribbins at Christmas", 2007)
- Black Narcissus (From Rumer Godden. R4, 2008)
- The Iceman Returneth (R4. Reading "80 Not Out". 2008)
- The Yellowplush Papers (From Thackeray. R4, 2009)
- The Talented Mr Ripley (From Patricia Highsmith. R4, 2009)
- The Boy who followed Ripley (From Patricia Highsmith. R4, 2009)
- Ripley Under Water (From Patricia Highsmith. R4, 2009)
- Farewell Symphony (R3, 2009)
- Gerontius (R4, 2010)
- Double Jeopardy (R4, 2011)
- The Lady in the Lake (From Raymond Chandler. R4 2011)
- Playback (From Raymond Chandler. R4 2011)
External Links[]
Stephen Wyatt Interview ALCS News February 2009