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Poppy Burton-Morgan

THEATRE WRITING

2017 Wondr (Dir. Amanda Huxtable)                                                          Edinburgh Festival (Assembly)

2016 & 2017 Jungle Book (adaptation & directed)                                       Windsor Theatre Royal, UK & Int. tour

2016 You Lay Your Hand Backwards on My Heart                                     In development/ rehearsed reading                                                                                                                                              ETT shortlisted for National Octagon Prize

2016 Blown Away (adaptation & directed)                                                   Exeter Northcott & UK tour

2015 The King of Tiny Things (adaptation & directed)                                Malvern Theatres & UK tour

2014 Alice (adaptation & directed)                                                               Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds & UK tour

2012 Monkey & Crocodile (adaptation & directed)                                      Site Specific UK tour

2011 The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (adaptation & directed)      Oxford Playhouse & UK tour

2011 Sexing The Cherry (adaptation & directed)                                         Southbank Centre

2009 Blood Wedding (adaptation & directed)                                              Southwark Playhouse

MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA WRITING

2019 In The Willows (book and lyrics, new musical)                                  Exeter Northcott & UK tour

2018 Little Mermaid (book and lyrics, new musical)                                  Theatre By The Lake & UK tour

2018 Roles (libretto, new opera)                                                                   V&A (commission and residency)

2017 Palace of Junk (libretto, new opera)                                                    Mahogany Opera Various Stages Festival

2013 Flicker (libretto, new opera)                                                                Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadlers Wells

2010 Waiting (libretto, verbatim music theatre)                                         Southbank Centre        

2008 Just So/The Elephant's Child (libretto, new opera)                           Trafalgar Studios/Arcola Theatre        

   

STAGED READINGS

2016, 2017 In The Willows – a hip-hop musical, Exeter Northcott Theatre

2016 You Lay Your Hand Backwards On My Heart, dir. David Mercatali, English Touring Theatre

2014 Jungle Book, Birmingham Repertory Theatre

2012 Box, dir. James Bounds, English Touring Theatre 

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