Alice Nutter is a British musician and writer. Nutter is currently a scriptwriter for theatre, radio and TV. She was born in Burnley, Lancashire and attended Towneley High School.
Musical career
Nutter joined the anarchistmusic groupChumbawamba in 1982, not long after the band formed, and took up residence in their squat in Armley. With her music and politics closely integrated, Nutter picketed during the 1984-85 miners' strike and the 1986 Wapping dispute. In 1997, the band had an international hit with their song "Tubthumping", on which Nutter was a vocalist. She performed with the band on numerous international television shows and at the 1998 BRIT Awards. Nutter left Chumbawamba in 2006 to start a new career as a playwright. In 2012, she returned to the band for "Going Going", their final live performance at the Leeds City Varieties.
Writing career
Her theatre work includes Foxes at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Where's Vietnam? for Red Ladder Theatre Company at West Yorkshire Playhouse. Her radio work includes the afternoon playSnow In July for Radio 4 and the play My Generation for Radio 3. In 2013, My Generation was brought to the West Yorkshire Playhouse by its artistic director James Brining in the first full-scale, main-stage production of Nutter's work. In 2016, the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds staged Nutter's play the Barnbow Canaries about women munition workers in Barnbow, Leeds, during the First World War. The factory the women were working in exploded one day in December 1915 and killed 35 and injured many more. For television, Nutter has written an episode of Jimmy McGovern's series The Street and an episode of Casualty. She has also written an episode of Moving On, Jimmy McGovern's series, Accused and The Mill. Nutter wrote a biographical drama based on the life of the Mancunian comedian Bernard Manning, but cuts to the BBC4 budget led to the piece never being filmed. In March 2014, Spanner Films announced that Nutter would be one of the writers for Undercovers, a television drama series about the undercover police officers who infiltrated the British activist scene for 50 years, and the women who unknowingly had long-term relationships and even children with the spies. The series was also written by Simon Beaufoy, and was to be produced by Tony Garnett. The project did not come to fruition. She worked on the FX series Trust with Simon Beaufoy about the Getty family and the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, broadcast on BBC2 in 2018 and is currently working on the development of another FX series with Simon Beaufoy.
