CREATIVE
A playwright, novelist, composer and (occasional) performer, Willy Russell’s plays and musicals include Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, Breezeblock Park, Stags and Hens, John Paul George Ringo and Bert, One For The Road and Blood Brothers. For the screen he has written Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, Dancin' Thru The Dark, Our Day Out, One Summer, The Daughters Of Albion and Terraces. His novel, The Wrong Boy, is to be adapted for the screen.
Along with fellow playwright and performer Tim Firth, Willy Russell wrote and performed In Other Words and The Singing Playwrights, both shows featuring songs from his album, Hoovering The Moon.
Although constantly and widely produced throughout the world, Russell continues to live and work in Liverpool where his latest stage work, Our Day Out - The Musical, will open for a seven -week run at the Royal Court Theatre in August 2010.
For further details and information visit willyrussell.com
