Regularly updated news about Hull playwright Dave Windasshttp://www.davewindass.co.uk This short piece, written by Dave Windass, was performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse as part of Script Yorkshire's BUDS event in 2009 and also at the Hull branch of Script Yorkshire's first New Voices festival of new writing in January 2010. Directed by Peter Lawton, Thank You For Coming was performed by Peter Lawton and Lucy Thurlow.http://www.windass.karoo.net/news.htm#thanks This new play is a Humber Mouth Special Commission co-written by Dave Windass and Morgan Sproxton and directed by Lee Green. Gagging For it, a black comedy, is set against the backdrop of the stand-up comedy circuit and explores what happens when the contemporary obsession with fame and celebrity is taken to its extreme. The play stars Lee Green, Rachel Helen, Jess Morley and Tim Bettridge. The play will be performed, for one night only, in the new Hull Truck Theatre studio on June 30, 2009 as part of Humber Mouth 2009, the Hull Literature Festival. Tickets, priced at just £5, are available from the Hull Truck box office, and also available online or by phone(01482) 323638. For more information about Humber Mouth visit www.humbermouth.org.uk. http://www.humbermouth.org.uk The short film Ted's Return Home, directed by Dave Windass with a screenplay by Laurie Harvey and Nick Triplow and starring Martin Barrass and Robert Hudson, will be premiered at Vue cinema, Princes Quay, Hull at the event Get Lewis. The event is part of the Humber Mouth 2009 programme. The evening will be compered by BBC Radio Humberside's David Reeves. Tickets, priced at £3.50, are available in advance from the box office 01482 226655. For more information about Humber Mouth visit www.humbermouth.org.uk. http://www.humbermouth.org.uk Dave is involved in two events at this year's Humber Mouth literature festival. Along with Morgan Sproxton, he has co-written a new play, Gagging For It, which is a black comedy set against the backdrop of the stand-up comedy circuit. The play, a Humber Mouth Special Commission, will be performed in Hull Truck Theatre's studio for one night only on June 30th, 2009. Dave has also directed the short film Ted's Return Home, which is part of an event called Get Lewis. The film will premiere at Vue, Princes Quay on June 23rd, 2009. Ticket details to follow. http://www.humbermouth.org.uk The official On A Shout blog has been launched and unleashed on the Hull Truck website. The blog is an insight into the creative process by the play's writer Dave Windass. In the run up to the production, which takes place on Thursday 24th January - Saturday 16th February, 2008, regular blog updates will throw back the curtain on what goes on during the writing of a Hull Truck play - warts and all and - hopefully - with a few jokes along the way.http://www.hulltruck.co.uk/website/weblogONASHOUT.php Tickets for On A Shout, directed by Gareth Tudor Price and written by Dave Windass, have gone on sale exclusively online at the Hull Truck website. On A Shout will be performed Thursday 24th January - Saturday 16th February, 2008. http://www.windass.karoo.net/news.htm#shout Directed by Gareth Tudor Price, written by Dave Windass, Thursday 24th January - Saturday 16th February, 2008 8pm. Join our dazzling RNLI crew at The Point as their pagers bleep, they pull on their waterproofs and head out into the unknown. This present crop of life-savers have a lot to live up to and, for George, this is one last chance to play the hero. For the others, well, who knows what fate might have in store... http://www.windass.karoo.net/news.htm#shoutIt's My Party, a short film made for the Global Stories project, premiered at the National Media Museum, Bradford on June 7, 2007. It's My Party was written by Dave Windass, directed by Musa Karolia and made in eight days, filmed entirely on location in Bradford.http://www.windass.karoo.net/news.htm#partyHull playwright Dave Windass has received an Arts Council England award to research and write a new play about British film mogul J Arthur Rank. The Grants For Arts award of £4,500 will help bring to life the new drama about Rank, who was born in east Hull and worked as a flour miller before establishing the most successful studio in the history of British film. http://www.windass.karoo.net/news.htm#rank