Alan Pollock
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Alan Pollock is a British author, playwright, and scriptwriter.[1][2]
Pollock was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in French Language and Literature from St John's College, University of Oxford in 1984.[3]
His plays include:
- All Tomorrow's Parties[4]
- The Allesley Silas, based on the novel Silas Marner by George Eliot[5]
- The Bear who went to War, the story of Wojtek, a bear who fought in the Second World War[6]
- Godiva Rocks, a musical[3]
- One Night in November, about the Coventry Blitz, originally starring Daniel Brocklebank and Joanna Christie[7][8][9]
- Pigs[4]
- Too Much Pressure[2]
- Treasure Island, based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson[10]
Pollock's television writing credits include:[1]
- Always and Everyone (2002) – 1 episode
- Attachments (2020) – 1 episode
- The Bill (1984–2010) – 6 episodes
- Black Cab – 1 episode
- The Death of Daniel – thriller
- Peter Pan (2020) – television special
Radio plays by Pollock include Philip and Sydney (2010), about the poet Philip Larkin,[11][3] with an associated book,[4] and Every Duchess in England (2013),[2] both broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Pollock's publications include the children's picture book The Bear who went to War, associated with his play of the same name,[12][13][14] He contributed to the television drama series The Bill, leading to a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award in 2008 for series 23 (2007).[15][16]
Pollock has taught creative writing at the University of Gloucestershire and the University of Warwick.[17] He established a Master of Arts course on Creative Writing at Coventry University. He also gives master classes on playwriting.[18]
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- 1962 births
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
- English fiction writers
- English novelists
- 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century English dramatists and playwrights
- English male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century English screenwriters
- 21st-century English screenwriters
- English male screenwriters
- English children's writers
- Academics of the University of Gloucestershire
- Academics of the University of Warwick
- Academics of Coventry University
- Living people