Person

Oates, Alex

1987

English playwright from the North East; he moved to London to attend Middlesex University in 2006 where he studied Theatre Arts; Oates also studied for a semester at New Paltz where he specialised in dramatic writing under Prof. Laurence Carr; Oates’ first play Fan Fiction was produced as a reading at the St. James Theatre; he then wrote Silk Road for the Edinburgh Fringe (Assembly); Silk Road tackles the issue of buying drugs online and was the first play funded by the digital currency Bitcoin; Oates next play Pig was produced by Silent Uproar productions for Hull Truck Theatre July 2015 and later transferred to the New Diorama Theatre in September 2015; his play All In a Row was long listed for the Bruntwood Prize in 2016