Stella Duffy

Stella Duffy is a writer and actress born 1963 in London who spent her childhood in New Zealand before returning to the UK. [cite web |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth250|title= Biography on British Council website]

Career

She has published five crime novels and six literary novels. She has also written over thirty short stories, seven plays, [cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek_20060731.shtml |title= BBC Start the Week, 31 July 2006] and many feature articles and reviews. With Lauren Henderson she co-edited the fiction anthology "Tart Noir" (2002). Her own short story in that book, "Martha Grace", was awarded the 2002 Crime Writers' Association's Macallan Short Story Dagger. [cite web |url=http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2002/index.html|title= 2002 Short Story Dagger Awards list] In 2004 her novel "State of Happiness" was longlisted for the Orange Prize, as was "The Room of Lost Things" in 2008. [cite web |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/orangeprize2004/story/0,,1170431,00.html|title= Guardian, 16th March 2004] [cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3512984.stm|title= BBC News, 15 March 2004] She has adapted "State of Happiness" as a feature film with Fiesta Productions. The first novel in her Saz Martin series, "Calendar Girl", was voted fifth equal in the 2007 international poll The Big Gay Read. [cite web |url=http://www.queerupnorth.com/news_detail.php?ID=176|title= 2007 Big Gay Read winners list]

As a stage performer, she is an associate artist with Improbable, has been a member of the comedy improvisation company Spontaneous Combustion since 1988 and is an occasional guest with The Comedy Store Players. She has performed her solo show "Breaststrokes" ("Time Out" and "The Guardian" Critic’s Choice) in London, Belfast, Cardiff, Dublin, York, and Amsterdam. In 2003, Britain's National Youth Theatre performed a stage version of her novel "Immaculate Conceit". [cite web |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article1154842.ece|title= Review in The Times (London), 3rd September 2003]

On screen, she appeared in a 1997 episode of ITV police procedural series "The Bill" [cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0525265/|title= The Bill episode cast list on IMDB and ] the 2001 movie "Absolution". [cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300903/|title= Absolution cast list on IMDB]

Novels

* "Calendar Girl" (1994)
* "Wavewalker" (1996)
* "Beneath the Blonde" (1997)
* "Singling Out the Couples" (1998)
* "Eating Cake" (1999)
* "Fresh Flesh" (1999)
* "Immaculate Conceit" (2000)
* "State of Happiness" (2004)
* "Parallel Lies" (2005)
* "Mouths of Babes" (2005)
* "The Room of Lost Things" (2008)

tage Plays

* "The Tedious Predictability of Falling in Love" (1990)
* "The Hand, A Lesbian Horror Ballet" (1995)
* "Close To You" (1996)
* "Crocodiles and Bears" (1999)
* "Immaculate Conceit" (2003)
* "Breaststrokes" (2004)
* "Prime Resident" (2006)

References

Newspaper interviews

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,2109822,00.html Observer, 24th June 2007]
* [http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article1741867.ece The Times (London), 4th May 2007]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article417342.ece?token=null&offset=0 The Times (London), 3rd March 2005]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article509142.ece The Times (London), 2nd February 2005]

External links

* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth250 British Council/Contemporary Writers]
* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsD/duffy-stella.html List of stage plays on Doollee]
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