Chris Goode (playwright)
Chris Goode is a British playwright, theatre director and performer. He was the Artistic Director of Camden People's Theatre from 2001 to 2004 and currently leads the ensemble Chris Goode and Company
A regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he has won four Fringe First awards for Men in the Cities, Monkey Bars, Neutrino and Kiss of Life.
Goode hosts the regular podcast Thompson's Live in which he curates discussions with other theatre artists about their practice.
His plays are published by Oberon Books.Work
Solo shows
- Mirabel. Premiered at Ovalhouse Theatre, London.
- Men in the Cities. Premiered at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
- God/Head. Premiered at Ovalhouse Theatre, London.
- The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley. Premiered at Contact Theatre, Manchester.
- Hippo World Guest Book. Premiered at Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh.
As playwright
- Mad Man. Premiered at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth.
- Infinite Lives. Premiered at Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol.
- Monkey Bars. Premiered at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
- The Loss of All Things. Part of the Bush Theatre's Sixty-Six Books.
- King Pelican. Premiered at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth.
- Speed Death of the Radiant Child Premiered at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth. Revived at the Warwick Arts Centre
As director
- Jubilee adapted from Derek Jarman. Premiered at Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre.
- Landscape and Monologue by Harold Pinter. Premiered at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath.
- Glass House. Premiered in the Clore Studio, Royal Opera House.
