Mike Mallett

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Mike Mallett started writing for the theatre in the mid-1990s. Haiti received a rehearsed reading at Theatre Clwyd in 1995. The following year Imperial Measurements was one of the winners of North West Playwrights annual competition and was premiered at Bolton Octagon, directed by Ramin Gray.

A full production of this text followed in 1997 at The Yard, Manchester, directed by Bill Hopkinson. Mike spent much of the late 1990s fawning around the London New Writing Theatre circuit whilst researching Deleuze’s notion of schizophrenia and the writing process at the University of Warwick, under the supervision of Dr Adrian Heathfield. I Am The Weapon Not The Target wasn’t premiered at the Albany, Deptford, nor was his Discussion Show format Poached Eggheads produced by Channel X for BBC3; however, Mike spent much of 1999 waiting for both of these things to happen.

Having got bogged down teaching in the first few years of the Millennium, he has recently returned to theatre writing. Producing his own work in collaborating with performers from a wide range of backgrounds, he attempts to find a theatrical truth which is raw, fractured and pathetic.

Early attempts include Mr Wells’ Dog’s Dinner (Buxton Fringe, 2006) and Gargantua (Pyramid, Warrington and Greenroom, Manchester, 2007). In his spare time Mike lectures in Script Writing at Trafford College.