George Devine Award
for Most Promising Playwright
Arts Council England Writer's Award for Drama
Peter Brook Awards (Mark Marvin Award) winner
Nominee for Best Musical - The Evening Standard Theatre
Awards
Che’s has won the Peter Brook Award (Mark Marvin Rent
Subsidy Award) for his plays Crazy Love and Burnt Up Love.
Che’s musical version of Been So Long is a nominee
for The Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical in the Evening
Standard Theatre Awards 2009.
Estate Walls, directed by Che, opens at the Oval House
Theatre in London on the 21st of September. Click on the
e-flyer to access the Oval House website.
LoveSong, written & directed by Che, starring, and with
music & lyrics by, Omar Lyefook, was most recently in
Edinburgh 2010.
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The Frontline premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in London in
2008 and returned to the Globe in 2009.
Saturday night outside the tube; god, strip
bars, weed, crack, lost old men, unemployed actors and
vegans all collide in a riptide of chaos on the streets of
London. There’s Beth the reformed Christian and
Erkenwald the hot-dog seller, old Ragdale on a quest to
find his daughter, Mordechai Thurrock the actor-playwright
and egomaniac, and Cockburn, Elliot and Clayton the dealers
and junkies, whose trade both sustains and destroys the
lives of those around them.
In this vibrant and blackly comic new play, a dozen private
stories emerge, and their voices give utterance to a storm
of subjects and feelings: pop culture and sexual fantasy,
the ruins of empire and the delusions of religion, foreign
oil and prehistoric London encompassing the cruel and the
tender, the gutter and the stars.
His first play, Been So Long, premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre in 1998 and was runner-up for both the
Meyer-Whitworth and the John Whitting Award before being
translated and performed in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, New
Zealand and Australia.
His play, Flesh Wound, premiered at the Royal Court in 2003
and won the George Devine Award for Most Promising
Playwright.
Ché studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy in London
(1989-1992 graduating with Distinction) and at WAC (1998),
and has worked with Edward Bond, Dennis Potter, Philip
Ridley, Mark Ravenhill and Ricky Gervais, among others.
Ché has taught acting at RADA, Central, E15 and the Arts
Project for Socially Excluded Youth, he has been Head of
Acting at the Weekend Arts College for over ten years. He
has taught writing for the Royal Court Young Writers'
Programme, in the Feltham Young Offenders' Institute, at
the Centre Point Homeless Shelter, and for Hampstead
Theatre Youth Project.