Jeff Young
Work includes over 20 plays, radio essays and drama documentaries for Resonance FM, BBC Radio 3 and 4 for whom he has collaborated with the likes of Simon Armitage and Skyray. Jeff previously worked with Pete Townshend on the BBC Radio 3 adaptation of Lifehouse. Carandiru, recorded in a Sao Paulo prison, was nominated for a Sony and he has been nominated for Prix Italia and Prix Europa awards.
Jeff has written numerous large scale, site specific collaborations for places such as a drained submarine dock in Barrow in Furness, the Mersey Tunnel and a power station in Swan Hunter shipyard, Newcastle. He has written thirty odd stage plays and music theatre pieces for Liverpool Everyman, Unity, Northern Stage, Kneehigh, Bristol Old Vic and many other theatres.
Recently Jeff has been writing for BBC TV Drama on programmes such as Eastenders and Casualty. A film version of his radio play The Don is in development with music and songs by Pete Wylie. Future work includes the stage version of Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia and an opera with composer Joby Talbot and Improbable for English National Opera. Jeff also works with the artist Alan Dunn on sound art, spoken word and public art projects.
