Lee Mattinson
writer
[Theatre]
2022
Southpaw Dance Company (Dramaturg, Journeys Festival)
Directed by Robby Graham
Southpaw Dance Company (National Tour)
Directed by Robby Graham
VAULT Festival/Northern Stage
Directed by Matt Harrison
2021
Southpaw Dance Company/Sunderland Culture
Directed by Robby Graham
Northern Stage (Out on the Toon)
Directed by Mark Maughan
2020
Encounter
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
'It’s ridiculous, absurd, infuriating and, at points, very, very sad. Which makes it an almost perfect portrayal of...loss in the aftermath of an utterly unfathomable event. A jumbled-up clown dance through a blank space: that’s grief all right' The Stage
Northern Stage Young Company/The Team (co-created with the Company)
Directed by Louie Ingham
2019
Royal Exchange Theatre
Shortlisted for The Bruntwood Prize 2019
Northern Stage Young Company (co-created with the Company)
Directed by Louie Ingham
'The best young people's theatre I have seen in decades' British Theatre Guide
Kendal Brewery Arts/Applied Theatre in Cumbria
Directed by Paula Penman
The Letter Room (co-written with the Company)
Directed by Meghan Doyle
2018
Where Do We Stand?
Northern Stage Young Company (co-created with the Company)
Directed by Louie Ingham
Rat Boy
Live Theatre
Directed by Laura Lindow
Winner of the Live Bursary 2018
2017
Live Theatre
Directed by Rachel Glover
Curious Monkey/Sunday For Sammy
Directed by Amy Golding & Toni McElhatton
2016
Pilot Theatre/Northern Stage (National Tour)
Directed by Katie Posner
Adapted from the novel by Jonathan Tulloch
‘An unsentimental rites of passage that takes in the darker edges of a fractured family, but still manages to offer some kind of hope’ The Herald
‘This skilful adaptation is a Premier League effort’ The Independent
True North (Super Slow Way)
Directed by Louie Ingham
Encounter (100° Festival Berlin, Soho Theatre, The Yard)
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
‘Crushing sentimentality through a meat-grinder and spewing it over crusty, vicious suburbia’ Exeunt Magazine
Signal Theatre (Brighton Fringe, Camden Fringe)
Directed by Robert Wolstenholme
2015
11 Plus
Live Theatre (co-curated with Laura Lindow)
Directed by Paul James
True North (Lakes Culture)
Directed by Louie Ingham
2014
Royal Exchange Theatre
Directed by Ng Choon Ping
Winner of Hodgkiss Award 2013, short-listed for Verity Bargate 2011
‘A surrealist Royle Family set in a desperate North East seaside town’
Manchester Evening News
‘Dark, funny and off-the-wall’ What’s On Stage
Published by Nick Hern Books
Encounter (Bridging the Gap)
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
‘Poignant, eccentric and haunting’ The Scotsman
Encounter (Halifax Arts Festival)
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
Queen’s Hall (Pint Size)
Directed by Rosie Kellegher
‘Mattinson is an author with a fertile and restless imagination, most at home with finding truth in the most mind-blowing or unlikely situations’ British Theatre Guide
2013
Brown Bird
Chicken Pox Fox/Bush Theatre (RADAR Festival)
Directed by Laura Lindow
Colour It In
Ugly Sister (Story Project 5)
Directed by Hamish MacDougall
Geisha Girls
Bush Theatre (Bush Berkley Beano)
Directed by Madani Younis
Dot to Dot Active Arts
Writer and Performer
Lashes and Taches
Northern Stage (First in Three)
Writer and Director
East 15 (Acting & Stage Combat Graduate Show)
Directed by Shane Dempsey
Snap
Young Vic (5 by 5)
Directed by Ng Choon Ping
2012
Rola Cola
Ugly Sister (Story Project 4)
Directed by Rachel Valentine-Smith
Paines Plough (Come to Where I’m From)
Writer and Performer
Bush Theatre
Directed by Madani Younis
Nominated for ‘Most Promising New Playwright’ at Off West End Theatre Awards & finalist for ‘Writer of the Year’ at Journal Culture Awards
‘A glorious, authentically messy depiction of a scarred and exhausted family of women’ Spoonfed
‘Chalet Lines might suggest something tacky and brash...what it delivers is something much darker and more intricate’ The Bleed
Published by Nick Hern Books
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit
NTC (4Play)
Directed by Gillian Hambleton
Monster
Bold as Brass
Directed by Jackie Fielding
2011
No Wire Hangers
Soho Theatre (Hub Monthly)
Directed by Nina Steiger
$h!t Disco
Royal Exchange Theatre
Longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize 2011
Chicken Pox Fox/Live Theatre (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
Directed by Laura Lindow
‘Nails the breathless mood of being fourteen…like Carrie re-written by Morrissey’ Three Weeks
‘A Belle and Sebastian song made flesh’ Fest
Me, Fatty
Ugly Sister (Story Project 3)
Directed by Anthony Coleridge
Live Theatre
Directed by Paul James
‘Captures the slang-laden, sometimes offhand and often acerbic dialect of the 21st century teen, with frightening accuracy’ The Journal
2010
Julian Scary
Live Theatre (Singles)
Directed by Amy Golding
Freddy Hearts Freddie
Ugly Sister (Story Project 2)
Directed by Julia McShane
2009
I Heart Morrissey
Live Theatre (24/7)
Directed by Jackie Fielding
The Tufty Club
NTC (4Play)
Directed by Helen Ferguson
2008
The Bang Gang
Bad Fox Theatre (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
Directed by Katie Posner
‘Genuinely disturbing and brilliantly-written’ The Stage
‘Violent, funny and menacing’ The Fringe Report
Live Theatre
Directed by Steve Gilroy
‘This play has a big heart and an even bigger mouth’ Guardian
‘Mattinson’s sparkling script gives the world an unprecedented and at times sympathetic view of Chavdom hitherto unseen on stage’ The Journal
2007
Swan Song
New Writing North (Bite Size)
Directed by Max Roberts
Shitty Shitty Bang Bang
Live Theatre (BBC Northern Writers Group)
Directed by Jeremy Herrin
in development
Steel
Theatre By The Lake
[Radio]
2018
BBC Radio 3 (I Told You I Was Ill)
Directed by Pauline Harris
2017
BBC Radio 4 Online (Pod Plays)
Directed by Sharon Sephton
2016
BBC Radio 3 (Sonnets in the City)
Directed by Nadia Molinari
2014
BBC Radio 4 (Afternoon Drama, Original British Dramatists)
Directed by Sharon Sephton
Short-listed for ‘Best Radio Drama’ at The Writer’s Guild Awards 2015
'Mattinson creates a stunningly original aural landscape’ The Stage
2012
Glow in the Dark
BBC Free Thinking Festival
Directed by Sharon Sephton
2009
BBC Radio 3 (The Wire)
Directed by Katherine Beacon
2006
Prom
BBC Radio Newcastle (Jordan Road)
Directed by Yve Ngoo
Snowglobe
BBC Radio Newcastle (Sports Shorts)
Directed by Yve Ngoo
[Film]
2022
Elevator Productions/BFI Network
Directed by Andy McVicar
Winner of Royal Television Society 2023 Drama Performance
in development
The Seagull
Elevator Productions
Show Pony
Knock & Nash
[Television]
2012
ITV
Story Associate
2009
BBC Three
Directed by David Sant