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Jon Brittain (born May 1987) is an Olivier Award-winning playwright, comedy writer and director who was born in Chester in the northwest of England and grew up in the Netherlands. [1] He graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA in 2008.
Jon Brittain has just won his first Olivier Award for the play Rotterdam. It’s a play “some people won’t think you should have written”, a friend warned him on first read. Why? Brittain is a straight, married, cisgender man who wrote a play about the emotional fallout from one person’s decision to transition from Fiona to Adrian. And he did it it with such acute insight and to such ...
Jun 21, 2017 · Jon Brittain's Rotterdam, about what happens to a couple when one transitions gender, has been a smash hit by anyone's standards.It was first performed at Theatre503 in 2015, before it transferred ...
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Nov 16, 2017 · Brittain, whose transgender friends inspired him to write the play, read extensively, interviewed transgender people and became involved with a nonprofit gender diversity group. Fiona takes the ...
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Jun 21, 2017 · After its triumphant win at the 2017 Olivier Awards, and a sell-out run in New York, Jon Brittain's critically acclaimed 'Rotterdam' returns to the West End with more trans dramas hitting the ...
May 11, 2017 · Jon Brittain's play Rotterdam has achieved unprecedented success in London over the past eighteen months. Originally opening at Theatre 503 in November 2015 where it was described by The Guardian as "a shiny study of love and sexuality" it later transferred to Trafalgar Studios 2 and last month won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.
Jon Brittain is an Olivier Award-winning playwright, comedy writer and director who was born in Chester in the northwest of England and grew up in the Netherlands.
