Jules Horne

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.

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.

Radio Plays Radio Plays written by Jules Horne Date first broadcast Play Director Cast SynopsisAwards StationSeries Days of Reckoning: The Christmas Chair Read by Julie Austin An old man with Alzheimer's is brought home to spend the festive season with his family. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading BBC Radio Scotland Drama Fresh Blood: Inner Critic There's a carping, spiteful wee voice in Danni's ear crushing her spirit. Imaginary or real, can Danni get rid of her all too vicious inner critic? BBC Radio 7 Island Blue: A Place in the Rain Sarah Collier, Rose McBain, Lucy Paterson and Lesley Hart Self-made millionaire, Bren, finds more questions than answers in the island's solitude. Shonagh wants to get on the property ladder but will the in-comer spoil her dream? BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama Kelso – Overdue South Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy RiddochMusic by Gavin Marwick BBC Radio Scotland Drama Life: An Audio Tour Sandy McDade, Edith MacArthur, Lewis Howden and Alex Elliott Jenny is trying to win Joe back after her disastrous affair. Her unusual strategy is to offer him an audio tour of the small Scottish town of Kelso. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play Small Blue Thing Clare Waugh, Molly Innes, Isla Cowan and James Mackenzie An eerie tale of childhood jealousy and possession where a small glass marble seems to have a powerful hold over one young woman's life. BBC Radio Scotland Drama Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine Scott Hoatson, John Kazek, Gabriel Quigley, Gavin Mitchell, Isabella Jarrett and Leo MacNeill Young Scots country blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan is a man of ideas, like the velocipede – a clanking, pedalled contraption that's the ancestor of the modern bicycle. He cycled from Penpont to Glasgow and committed the world's first cycle crime in 1842. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play

Theatre Stage plays written by Jules Horne Date Title Director Cast Synopsis Company / Theatre Notes – Borders Fusion: Pawkie Paitterson's Auld Grey Yaud Simon Crouch, Matthew Burgess and Kathleen Quinn Based on a traditional poem, which finds an ageing horse setting out its last will and testament. Cross Country Theatre Company Denholm Village Hall 2 June 2001 – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher Rowan Tree Theatre – Gorgeous Avatar Pauline Knowles, Una McLean, Patrick Hoffman and John Kazek Amy enjoys her isolation in a small Borders town, glued to her laptop and conducting her work, shopping and a long-distance relationship via the internet – but the real world catches up with her when her American internet beau gets on a plane to visit. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – 23 May 2006 Yetholm Wauchope Hall 24 May 2006 Galashiels Volunteer Hall 25 May 2006 Carlops Village Hall 29 May 2006 Dumfries Theatre Royal 31 May 2006 Ballachulish Village Hall 2 June 2006 5 June 2006 Achiltibuie Coigach Community Hall 6 June 2006 Ullapool Macphail Theatre 8 June 2006 Strathpeffer Pavilion Isle of Skye Sabhal Mor Ostaig – Overdue South Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – Fraser Boyle Monologue celebrating the life and heritage of Kirkpatrick Macmillan, the Dumfriesshire blacksmith who invented the pedal bicycle, centres on Macmillan's appearance in a Glasgow court where he was charged with dangerous driving and knocking down a young girl while riding his new pedal bicycle through the Gorbals in 1842. Nutshell Theatre Dumfries & Galloway tour, May 2009 8 May 2009 Penpont Primary School Festival Café at DG One Dumfries Drumlanrig Castle Created for the Scottish Forestry Commission for The World Mountain Bike Conference and Original Bicycle Festival – Helen Longworth, Danny Kennedy, Andrew Whitehead and Ruth Tapp Quondam Theatre 8 October 2010 Ferguson Hall Belford, Northumberland 9 October 2010 Pegswood Community Project Northumberland 13 October 2010 Bishop Auckland Town Hall 14 October 2010 Eastriggs Social Club Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association 19 October 2010 The Brindley Runcorn 20 October 2010 Residency Heart of Hawick 21 October 2010 Heart of Hawick 22 October 2010 Bowhill Theatre Selkirk, Scottish Borders 23 October 2010 The Wynd Theatre Melrose 26 October 2010 Tithe Barn Carlisle 27 October 2010 Plumbland Village Hall Cumbria 28 October 2010 Ireby Globe Hall Cumbria 29 October 2010 Brigham Memorial Hall Cumbria 2010 Haile Village Hall Cumbria 2 November 2010 Talbot Theatre Whitchurch, Shropshire 3 November 2010 Bowes & Gilmonby Parish Hall Durham 4 November 2010 Appleby-in-Westmorland Public Hall 5 November 2010 Lacey Thompson Hall Hallbankgate 6 November 2010 Askham Village Hall Cumbria 7 November 2010 Nicholforest Village Hall Penton Cumbria 10 November 2010 Anslow Village Hall 11 November 2010 Hurley Village Hall Warwickshire 12 November 2010 Gilbert Sheldon Hall Stanton, Staffordshire 13 November 2010 14 November 2010 St Anne's Church Hall Wendover Supported by Arts Council England – Allotment Pauline Goldsmith and Nicola Jo Cully Nutshell Theatre / Assembly: Inverleith Allotments, Edinburgh – Thread Mary Gapinski, Claire Dargo and Stephen Docherty Nutshell Theatre – Gowan Calder, Nicola Jo Cully and Stephen Docherty Tron Theatre, Glasgow 25 Sept Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh 28 Sept 8 Oct New Pitsligo Hall, New Pitsligo 11 Oct Stracathro Hall, by Edzell 12 Oct Crathes Hall, Crathes 17 Oct Birnam Arts Centre, Birnam 18 Oct Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley 19 Oct Corrie Hall, Isle of Arran Handfast Nicola Jo Cully, Joanna Holden, Robin Laing, Victoria Liddelle, Sandy Nelson and Mark McDonnell Nutshell Theatre MacArts Centre, Galashiels Performed script-in-hand as a work-in-progress, the first time the play was heard by an audience. – Joanna Holden, Stephen Doherty, Pauline Goldsmith, Sandy Nelson, Mary Gapinski and Valentine Hanson Nutshell Theatre & The Byre Theatre The Byre Theatre, St Andrews – Nutshell Theatre & The Byre Theatre Summerhall, Edinburgh

Short stories Agnus Dei, Macalllan Shorts 1 Polygon, 1998 Life Kit #1, Franklin's Grace Fish, 2002 Radar Bird, Macallan Shorts V, Polygon, 2003 The Case Against Wings, Chapman 2004 Nanonovels, Product magazine, 2004–2008 ISSN 1468-9901 Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher

Journalism Open University learning is a joy – Jules Horne, The Guardian, 18 June 2010