Philip Goulding

Philip Goulding's original stage plays and musicals include:

• ‘Beneath the Waves’ (Eastern Angles/Colchester Mercury Theatre) 
• ‘Then He Kissed Me’ (Royal Theatre Northampton 1993, Courtyard Theatre London/Soho Theatre 1996)
• ‘Went Down to the Crossroads’ (Courtyard Theatre, London)
• ‘Waiting for Elvis’ (New Perspectives)
• ‘Heading West’ (Forest Forge/Salisbury Playhouse)
• ‘Different Animal’ (Bootleg Theatre Company/Hen & Chickens)
• ‘The Belle of Bonavista Bay’ (Theatre Newfoundland Labrador 2013)
• ‘Wake Up Little Suzie!’ (Oldham Coliseum/ Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke)
• ‘Feels Like the First Time’ (Oldham Coliseum)
• ‘Horse Or River’ (Oldham Coliseum Outreach)
• ‘A Fine Bright Day Today’ (Oldham Coliseum 2011, New Vic, Stoke 2012)
• ‘Doc Faust! - A Wild West Musical’ (Maine Performing Arts Festival 2007)
• ‘Our Gracie’ (Oldham Coliseum/New Vic)

His play 'Strange Lands' won 1st Prize in the International Theatre Institute Playwriting Competition 2002 and was produced by Public View Theatre Company and Giorgos Gikapeppas at the Empros Theatre, Athens in 2003 and in the UK by N1 Theatre Company at the Courtyard Theatre, London in 2005.

His adaptations include:

• ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Forest Forge)
• ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (Forest Forge)
• ‘Briar Rose’ (Forest Forge)
• ‘Peter Pan’ (Forest Forge)
• ‘The True Tales of Robin Hood’ (Forest Forge)
• ‘The Titfield Thunderbolt’ (New Perspectives 1997; Third Space 2004; Queen's Theatre Hornchurch/CV Productions/Bill Kenwright, national tour 2005; Bruce James Productions, national tour 2010; Suffolk Summer Theatres 2015, Rumpus Theatre Company 2022)
• ‘Toad Of Toad Hall’ (Forest Forge 1998, New Perspectives 1999, Eye Theatre 2001, Alberta Theatre Projects 2009)
• ‘The Wind In The Willows’ (Basingstoke Haymarket) 
• ‘Hansel & Gretel’ (Forest Forge 1999, Eye Theatre 2002)
• ‘The Mayor Of Casterbridge’ (Forest Forge/Salisbury Playhouse 1998, Wessex Actors Company 2005)
• ‘The Road to Nab End’ (Oldham Coliseum 2010)
• ‘Whisky Galore’ (Oldham Coliseum/Hull Truck/New Vic Stoke, national tour 2018)
• ‘The Government Inspector (or A Little Local Difficulty)’ (Forest Forge/Salisbury Playhouse 1997, Watermill Theatre, Newbury 1998, Oldham Coliseum 2003, N1 Theatre Company at the Courtyard London 2014)
• With playwright Richard Hurford he adapted John Gay's play into:
  ‘The Beggar's Opera Through the Ages’ (York Theatre Royal community play 2016)

‘A Fine Bright Day Today’ and ‘The Titfield Thunderbolt’ are published by Concorde/Samuel French Ltd. ‘Whisky Galore’ is published by Nick Hern Books.

Philip was awarded an Arts Council of England Theatre Writing Bursary in 1995 to write ‘Strange Lands’. He was awarded an Arts Council England 'Developing Your Creative Practice' grant in 2021 to research and develop ‘Give My Regards to Sible Hedingham’.

For television he has written ‘Keeper’ (Channel 4). He was co-writer of the BBC documentary ‘Deadliest Crash: the Le Mans 1955 Disaster’ (Bigger Picture Films).

For radio he has written ‘Unexpected Vonnegut’ an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's story ‘Who Am I This Time?’ for BBC Radio 4 and ‘A Fat Man Eats the Moon’ and ‘The Dilemma’ for RTE (Dublin).

In 2015/16 he was, with Richard Hurford, co-writer in residence at the National Railway Museum.

He has collaborated on a series of projects with composer Alan Edward Williams, including: ‘12 Storeys High’, a song cycle for soprano and solo piano (Zoe Milton-Brown/Gavin Wayte, Bridgewater Hall, 2010), the award-winning choral song sequence ‘Divers Winged Creatures’ (MDR Rundfunkchor, Leipzig 2008), ‘Wonder: a Scientific Oratorio’ (BBC Philharmonic/BBC Singers/Salford Choral Society 2009) and ‘Stefan and Lotte in Paradise: a chamber opera’ (Media City, Salford 2012).

Writer's Website

• www.philipgoulding.com

Titles We Represent

  Plays (Individual)

• ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (Play with Music)
• ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Play with Music)
• ‘Waiting for Elvis’ (Play, comedic Drama)

  Plays (with Alan Edward Williams)

• ‘The Mayor Of Casterbridge’ (Play with Music)
• 'Toad Of Toad Hall’ (Play with Music)

  Musicals

• 'Feels Like the First Time' (Musical, Jukebox)
• ‘Our Gracie’ (Musical, Drama, Contemporary)
• ‘Wake Up Little Suzie!' (Musical, Jukebox)