Edward Kemp

Edward Kemp was born in Oxford and grew up in Worcester, Yorkshire and Chichester. He trained with the National Youth Theatre and read English Language and Literature at New College Oxford, where he acted in numerous productions, directed two of his own plays, as well as John Whiting’s The Devils and Shakespeare’s The Comedy Of Errors and Twelfth Night (the latter in the Oxford Playhouse). He wrote his first full-length play, The Iron And The Oak at the age of 15. This won Most Promising Playwright in the first Texaco/National Youth Theatre playwriting competition and was performed in the first season of the Chichester Festival Theatre Tent. Two more plays, Counterparts and A Proper Place both won Prizes in Texaco Competition, the latter being staged by the National Youth Theatre. After