Kevin Fegan is a playwright and poet. Fegan has written to commission around 50 original plays for a wide variety of theatre. Current commissions for 2017 productions include The Ruck opening at Lawrence Batley Theatre then national tour, Down The Line and Bess - the Commoner Queen opening at The Guildhall Theatre Derby then also commencing on a national tour.
Theatre
Obama the Mamba, about Barack Obama's Kenyan brother, George Hussein Obama, was a co-production for Curve Theatre Leicester and The Lowry Salford and was Nominated Best New Play Manchester Theatre Awards 2012. Fegan's other recent plays for The Lowry Salford include Slave produced by Feelgood Theatre at The Lowry in 2010, followed by a national tour in 2011 ; Fireflies: a love story waiting to happen commissioned & produced by The Lowry ; a studio play, The Forest ; adaptations of Love on the Dole and Oh Wot A Lovely War , both commissioned & produced by The Lowry. His early stage plays for Contact Theatre Manchester include McAlpine’s Fusilier ; Excess XS and Strange Attractors: love in a virtual world. Other early plays include Private Times for The Library Theatre Manchester & in 1999 performed by prisoners and staff at H.M.Prison Grendon and Rule 43 and the community play for Moss Side/Hulme in 1993 Game Challenge Level 7. His large-scale site-specific work includes Lord Dynamite, a Welfare State International production for L.I.F.T.’91, The Clay Man at Upper Campfield Market Manchester, Seven-Tenths for Walk the Plank Theatre Ship, 52 Degrees South at the Imperial War Museum North which was a Commonwealth Games Cultureshock production and Winner of Best New Play Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards 2002, Captured Live and Not Much Matches Mansfield . His devised work includes Quarantine's award-winning White Trash. His plays for young people include Get Real, The Ghosts of Crime Lake, When Frankenstein Came to Matlock, ABC123 and The Selkie Boy and Wan2tlk?. He has written several dramas for BBC Radio 4, including 8 single plays, including a drama documentary in verse:In Denial: the story of Paul Blackburn), Blast, a Classic Drama Serial In A Grove and a 3-week long Woman’s Hour Drama Serial The Furys. He has written a few short films, including Dancing in The Ruins . He has also worked as a storyline writer for Granada TV'sCoronation Street.
Poetry, Print and Radio
Fegan has published 10 books of poetry and edited over a dozen anthologies. His poetry books include the dramatic poems: Matey Boy, which was performed by Kevin on two national tours; Blast a stage version of his B.B.C.Radio 4 verse drama at Contact Theatre which was a Manchester Poetry Festival Airport Commission in 2002; and Racer. Blast and Racer are published by Five Leaves. Let Your Left Hand Sing, was commissioned by The Long Journey Home Festival and was re-published by Five Leaves Publications in 2008. His latest poetry collections are Away Pitch, a commissioned collection of poems about sports and arts, commissioned by The Brewhouse, Burton-on-Trent, as part of the Olympic Games Cultural Programme 2012, which won an Inspire Mark Award, and The Singing Tree, a commissioned collection about the diverse communities of Corby in the book, Our Corby 2012, published by Corby Community Arts. Recent books as compiler/editor include Fabulous. His poems have appeared in various magazines, including the New Statesman and Index on Censorship. He has given hundreds of poetry performances at live literature venues and has been a featured poet on BBC Radio 4's Encyclopedia Poetica, ITV's international poetry series Word of Mouth, Granada TV's Celebration and BBC 3’s poetry series, Whine Gums.
