Alexi Kaye Campbell

Alexi Kaye Campbell is an award winning playwright and screenwriter.

Personal life

Alexi Kaye Campbell was born Alexi Komondouros in Athens, Greece, to a Greek father and British mother. The name Campbell comes from his mother's family. He was brought up in Athens and went to Greek primary school, then Campion School and St Lawrence College, the British International schools in Athens. After graduating from Boston University with a degree in English and American Literature, Kaye Campbell went on to study acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Kaye Campbell has lived with his partner, the director Dominic Cooke since 1997.

Acting

Before turning to writing Kaye Campbell worked for many years as an actor. His work included seasons at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and with Oxford Stage Company, Chichester Festival Theatre, The Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre and with Shared Experience.

Writing

Alexi's first play Death in Whitbridge was performed as a rehearsed reading at the Finborough Theatre in London as part of the Vibrant Playwrights Festival.

In November 2008 Kaye Campbell’s second play, The Pride, was produced for the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs for which he was awarded The Critics' Circle Prize for Most Promising Playwright and the John Whiting Award for Best New Play. The production, directed by Jamie Lloyd, was also awarded a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an affiliate theatre. It starred Bertie Carvel, JJ Feild, Lyndsey Marshal and Tim Steed.

In January 2010 The Pride transferred to America and was produced for the MCC Theater in New York City, directed by Joe Mantello. The cast included Ben Whishaw, Andrea Riseborough, Hugh Dancy and Adam James. The play won the GLAAD award for Best New Play. Since then, 'The Pride' has been produced in many theatres worldwide, including in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Greece, and Germany.

Kaye Campbell’s third play, Apologia, was produced at The Bush Theatre in the summer of 2009, directed by Josie Rourke. Apologia was short-listed for The John Whiting Award and nominated for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Theatre Play. 'Apologia' was also produced at the MTC Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, with Robyn Nevin playing the part of Kristin. It was also produced at the Bungakuza Theatre Company in Japan.

Kaye Campbell's fourth play The Faith Machine premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in August 2011 directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring Hayley Atwell and Ian McDiarmid.

His fifth play Bracken Moor premiered at the Tricycle Theatre, London in June 2013, directed by Polly Teale.

In Autumn 2013 a revival of The Pride, directed by Jamie Lloyd, enjoyed a successful run in the West End before embarking on a national tour.

His sixth play, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, premiered at the National Theatre in London in May 2016, in a production directed by Simon Godwin and starring Ben Miles, Elizabeth McGovern, Sam Crane and Pippa Nixon.

Kaye Campbell's first film script, Woman in Gold, produced by BBC Films and The Weinstein Company, was directed by Simon Curtis and stars Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. It was the highest earning independent film of 2015.

Plays

Death in Whitbridge (2008) - Finborough Theatre, London

The Pride (2008) - Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, 2008; MCC Theatre, New York, 2010; Crucible Theatre (Studio Theatre), Sheffield, 2011

Apologia (2009) - The Bush Theatre, London, 2009

The Faith Machine (2011) - Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London, 2011

Bracken Moor (2013) - Shared Experience & Tricycle Theatre, London, 2013

Sunset at the Villa Thalia (2016) National Theatre, London, 2016

Films

Woman in Gold (2015)

Awards and nominations

Year	Result	Award	Category
2008	Won	Critics' Circle Theatre Award	Most Promising Playwright (The Pride)
2009	Won	John Whiting Award	Best New Play (The Pride)
2009	Won	Laurence Olivier Award	Outstanding Achievement in an affiliate theatre (The Pride)
2009	Nomination	Evening Standard Award - The Charles Wintour Award	Most Promising Playwright (The Pride)
2009	Nomination	Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards	Best New Play (Apologia)
2010	Nomination	Drama League Award	Distinguished Production of a Play (The Pride)
2010	Nomination	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play (The Pride)
2011	Won	GLAAD Award	Outstanding New York Theatre (The Pride)

External links

John Whiting Award

1967–1969	Tom Stoppard for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Wole Soyinka for The Interpreters (shared) (1967) Peter Nichols for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967) Peter Barnes for The Ruling Class and Edward Bond for Narrow Road to the Deep North (shared) (1968) Howard Brenton for Christie in Love (1969)

1970–1979	Freehold Company and Peter Hulton (joint) for Freehold on Antigone (1970) Mustapha Matura for As Time Goes By (1971) Heathcote Williams for AC/DC (1972) John Arden (1973) David Rudkin (1974) David Edgar for Destiny (1975) David Lan for The Winter Dancers (1976) David Halliwell and Snoo Wilson for The Glad Hand (shared) (1978) Stephen Bill (1979)

1980–1989	David Pownall for Beef (1981) Karim Alrawi for Migrations (1982) Peter Flannery for Our Friends in the North (1983) Ron Hutchinson for The Rat in the Skull (1984) Guy Hibbert for On the Edge and Heidi Thomas for Shamrocks & Crocodiles (shared) (1985) Nick Dear for The Art of Success (1986) Iain Heggie for American Bagpipes (1988) Billy Roche for A Handful of Stars (1989)

1990–1999	Lucy Gannon for Keeping Tom Nice (1990) Terry Johnson for Imagine Drowning (1991) Rod Wooden for Your Home in the West (1992) Martin Crimp for The Treatment and Helen Edmundson for The Clearing (shared) (1993) Jonathan Harvey for Beautiful Thing (1994) Joe Penhall for Some Voices (1995) Ayub Khan-Din for East is East (1996) Ann Coburn for Get Up and Tie Your Fingers (1997) Roy Williams for Starstruck (1998/9)

2000–2009	David Greig for The Cosmonaut's Last Message ... and Tanika Gupta for The Waiting Room (shared) (2000) Zinnie Harris for Further than the Furthest Thing (2001) Peter Rumney for Jumping on my Shadow (2002) Rona Munro for Iron (2003) Owen McCafferty for Scenes from the Big Picture (2004) Fin Kennedy for How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (2005) James Philips for The Rubenstein Kiss and Fraser Grace for Breakfast with Mugabe (shared) (2006) Dennis Kelly for Taking Care of Baby (2007) Bryony Lavery for Stockholm (2008) Alexi Kaye Campbell for The Pride (2009)

2010–9999	Tim Crouch for The Author and Lucy Kirkwood for It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It Is Alright Now (shared) (2010)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 83606495

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