Oliver Emanuel

Oliver Robert Michael Emanuel (4 April 1980 – 19 December 2023) was a British playwright and radio dramatist.

Early life and education Oliver Robert Michael Emanuel was born in Kent on 4 April 1980; his mother was a drama teacher and his father was a solicitor.

Career Emanuel was Writer-on-Attachment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2006 and Writer-in-Residence for BBC Radio 4 Children in Need in 2010. He lived in Glasgow from 2006. He was Reader of Playwriting at the University of St Andrews, an Associate Playwright at Playwrights' Studio Scotland, and Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library.

In addition to his radio and stage plays below, Emanuel wrote two plays for Polmont Young Offenders Institute, Ship of Shadows (October 2009) and John (7 May 2010), and scripted the short film This Way Up.

Personal life and death In April 2023, Emanuel was diagnosed with brain cancer, and died from the disease on 19 December 2023, at the age of 43. Emanuel had two children with Victoria Beesley; he and Beesley married in late 2023, shortly before his death. Shaun Dooley, Helen Longworth, Christine Kavanagh, Sam Dale, John Dougall, Philippe Smolikowski, Mark Straker and Rachel Bavidge BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play - id="Daniel and Mary" Daniel and Mary Robin Laing and Natasha Watson Bronze Sony Award for Best Drama 2010 BBC Radio ScotlandDrama - id="Elvis in Prestwick" Elvis in Prestwick Read by Laura Fraser BBC Radio 4Afternoon Reading - id="The Vanishing" dramatisation of Tim Krabbé novel Samuel West, Melody Grove, Ruth Gemmell, Liam Brennan, Natasha Watson, Claire Knight and Robin Laing BBC Radio 4Saturday Play - id="Everything" Everything Natasha Watson, Sandy Grierson and Meg Fraser BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play - id="One Night in Iran" One Night in Iran Khalid Abdalla and Maryam Hamidi BBC Radio 3The Wire - id="One Hundred and Forty Characters: Songbirds" One Hundred and Forty Characters: Songbirds Read by Robin Laing BBC Radio 4Afternoon Reading - id="Ancient Greek" Ancient Greek Alex Austin, Vincent Ebrahim, Sophie Stanton, Caitlin FitzGerald and Austin Moulton BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play - id="Thirteen Minutes in Cairo" Thirteen Minutes in Cairo Meg Fraser, Simon Tait and Hannah Donaldson BBC Radio 4From Fact to Fiction - id="The Other One" – Natasha Watson, Frances Grey, Robin Laing, Meg Fraser and Finlay Welsh BBC Radio 4Woman's Hour Drama - id="The Spare Room" Candida Benson, Babou Ceesay, Hannah Wood and Michael Shelford BBC Radio 4 - id="Albion Street" Albion Street Robin Laing and Meg Fraser BBC Radio ScotlandDrama - id="Take Me to the Necropolis" Take Me to the Necropolis Emerald O'Hanrahan, Rebecca Benson, Lewis Binnie, Alison Peebles, Rosalind Sydney and Liam Brennan BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play - id="Blood Sex and Money: Food" Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.3. Fooddramatised by Oliver Emanuel Glenda Jackson, Jodie McNee, James Anthony Pearson, Jonathan Keeble, Graeme Hawley, Millie Kinsey and Julie Hesmondhalgh BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play - id="Blood Sex and Money: Politics" Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.4. Politicsdramatised by Oliver Emanuel Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Laura Dos Santos, Jodie McNee, James Anthony Pearson, Graeme Hawley and Jonathan Keeble BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play - id="Blood Sex and Money: Drink" Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 1.5. Drinkdramatised by Oliver Emanuel Glenda Jackson, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Mark Holgate BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play - id="A History of Paper" Mark Bonnar and Lucy Gaskell Shortlisted for Tinniswood Award 2017 BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play - id="Blood Sex and Money: Performance" Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.1. Performancedramatised by Oliver Emanuel Glenda Jackson, Holliday Grainger, Ben Batt, John Catterall, David Crellin, Kimberly Hart-Simpson, Reece Noi and Kate O'Flynn BBC Radio 4Saturday Play - id="Blood Sex and Money: Power" Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 2.2. Powerdramatised by Oliver Emanuel Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Victoria Beesley, Laurie Brown, Laura Dos Santos, Alasdair Hankinson and Jonathan Keeble BBC Radio 4 - id="Blood Sex and Money: Fate" Blood Sex and Money by Emile Zola: 3.7. Fatedramatised by Oliver Emanuel Glenda Jackson, Robert Jack, Samuel West, John Bett, Colette O'Neil, Gavi Singh Chera and Sean Graham BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Adaptation, 2017. BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play - id="Transformations" Transformations Read by Shauna Macdonald BBC Radio 4 - id="The Truth About Hawaii" – Jocelyn Brassington, Christine Bottomley, Roderick Gilkison, Robin Laing, Kevin Mains, Anita Vettesse, Dani Heron and Adura Onashile BBC Audio Drama Award winner for Best Original Series or Serial, 2019.

ISNTD (International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases) Festival, Best Audio Drama, 2018. BBC Radio 415 Minute Drama - id="(After) Fear" (After) Fear Shauna Macdonald, Meg Fraser, Maryam Hamidi and Robin Laing BBC Radio 3Drama on 3 - id="When The Pips Stop" When The Pips Stop Shauna Macdonald, Jessica Hardwick, Jakob Jakobsson and Ken Mitchell Tinniswood Award 2019 winner Victoria Glass and Claire Davies Stage By Stage - id="Iz" –

Grae Cleugh and Nick Jesper Silver Tongue Theatre / Pleasance Theatre

- id="Iz 2" – Grae Cleugh and James Gitsham Silver Tongue Theatre / Tron Theatre, Glasgow - id="Shiver" –

Kay Bridgeman and Grae Cleugh Silver Tongue Theatre / Pleasance Courtyard

– Marcia Battise Theatre 503 - id="Bella and the Beautiful Knight" –

Silver Tongue Theatre / Gilded Balloon Teviot

– Tron Theatre, Glasgow - id="Magpie Park" – Magpie Park Alison Pargeter and Liam McKenna West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds - id="Man Across the Way" – Man Across the Way Grae Cleugh, Nicholas Cowell, John Milroy and Harriette Quarrie Silver Tongue Theatre and Theatre 503 - id="The Severed Head of Comrade Bukhari" –

Arches Theatre, Glasgow

– Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh - id="Flit" – Flit National Theatre of Scotland - id="Videotape" – Videotape Robbie Jack and Sam Young Òran Mór, Glasgow - id="One night in Iran 2" – One night in Iran Nabil Stuart and Amiera Darwish Òran Mór, Glasgow - id="Henry & Ingrid: Some Words For Home" Henry & Ingrid: Some Words For Home Tron Theatre, Glasgow - id="Spirit of Adventure" – Spirit of Adventure Dundee Rep / Òran Mór, Glasgow - id="Random Objects Flying Through The Air" – Random Objects Flying Through The Air Royal Conservatoire of Scotland / Playwrights' Studio, Scotland - id="End of The World" – End of The World Red Note Ensemble - id="Titus" – Titus Macrobert / Playwrights' Studio, Scotland / Imaginate / Edinburgh Festival Fringe New English version of Jan Sobrie's text. - id="The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish" – National Theatre of Scotland Adaptation of the book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (created by Lu Kemp and Abigail Docherty) - id="Dragon" – Dragon Vox Motus / National Theatre of Scotland / Tianjin People's Arts Theatre, China Conceived by Jamie Harrison, Oliver Emanuel and Candice Edmunds - id="The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" – David Ireland and Alasdair Hankinson MacrobertThe Arches, Glasgow Co-created with Gareth Nicholls - id="The Adventures of Robin Hood" – Visible Fictions - id="The Lost Things" – Arran Howie and Alex Bird Tortoise in a Nutshell - id="Prom" –

A Play, a Pie and a PintÒran Mór, Glasgow

– Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh - id="The 306: Dawn" – Scott Gilmour, Josef Davies and Joshua Miles National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre with funding from 14–18 NOW Composed by Gareth Williams - id="The 306: Day" – Dani Heron, Amanda Wilkin, Fletcher Mathers, Wendy Somerville, Angela Hardie and Steven Miller National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre and Stellar Quines Theatre Company with funding from 14–18 NOW Composed by Gareth Williams - id="Flight" –

Herald Angel Award 2017. Vox MotusChurch Hill Theatre, Edinburgh

– McKittrick Hotel, New York – Melbourne International Arts Festival – Brighton Festival – ASU Gammage - id="The 306: Dusk" – Sarah Kameela Impey, Ryan Fletcher and Danny Hughes National Theatre of Scotland, Perth Theatre with funding from 14–18 NOW Composed by Gareth Williams - id="The Monstrous Heart" –

Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough

– Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Short stories Nude

Other work Desperate Run

Awards Daniel and Mary received a Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama in 2010. His version of Titus won the People's Choice Victor Award in 2015. A History of Paper was shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award 2017. When The Pips Stop won the Tinniswood Award in 2019. The Truth About Hawaii won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Series or Serial in 2019.