Feather
Boy - interviews
The
author – Nicky Singer
Nicky
Singer has worked in publishing, the arts and television. She co-founded,
and for ten years co-directed, Performing Arts Labs – a charity
dedicated to training writers for stage, screen and opera.
Her
own writing career began when she was 15 years old with lyrics for
a cantata, Jonah and the Whale.
Since
then she has written four adult novels and two books of non-fiction.
Her
first novel for children, Feather Boy won the Blue Peter Book I
Couldn't Put Down Award and the overall Blue Peter Book of the Year
Award 2002.
The
book is now published in 18 countries and, as well as being adapted
for TV, it will go on tour as a theatre piece in 2005.
Nicky
Singer lives in Brighton with her husband and their three children.
The
writer / producer - Peter Tabern
Peter
Tabern runs Childsplay Productions, specialising in quality children's
drama. He writes and produces most of the company's output.
Recent
BBC credits include The Children of The New Forest and Stig of The
Dump (which won a Bafta and an International Emmy.)
He
divides his time between London and Derbyshire.
The
director – Dermot Boyd
Feather Boy is Dermot's first work for a younger audience although
he has a distinguished list of credits for adult drama including
Playing The Field, 2000 Acres of Sky, MacReady & Daughter and
most recently, The Return, starring Julie Walters, screened earlier
this year for ITV.
Dermot
is married with two teenage boys and lives in London.
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