Lee Mattinson
Writer
/// Theatre
2024
Steel
Theatre by the Lake
Directed by Liz Stevenson
Garsington Opera (Additional Text)
Directed by Christopher Alden
2023
Speakeasy
Southpaw Dance
National Tour
Directed by Robby Graham
2022
Southpaw Dance (Dramaturg)
Directed by Robby Graham
VAULT Festival/Northern Stage
Directed by Matt Harrison
2021
Acedia
Southpaw Dance/Sunderland Culture
Directed by Robby Graham
Northern Stage
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
'Simply the best young people’s theatre I have seen in decades of sitting in darkened rooms with a twitching pen'
British Theatre Guide
The Letter Room
(co-written with the Company)
Directed by Meghan Doyle
Kendal Brewery Arts
Directed by Paula Penman
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
Directed by Katie Posner & Adapted from the novel by Jonathan Tulloch
'This skilful adaptation is a Premier League effort'
The Independent
True North/Super Slow Way
Directed by Louie Ingham
Encounter
100° Berlin Fest, Soho Theatre, The Yard
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
‘Crushing sentimentality through a
meat-grinder and spewing it over crusty, vicious suburbia, I Heart Catherine Pistachio hits out of nowhere'
Exeunt Magazine
'Cult show'
Guardian
2015
Sellotape Sisters
Signal Theatre
Brighton Fringe, Camden Fringe
Directed by Robert Wolstenholme
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
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
Encounter/Halifax Arts Festival
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
Queen’s Hall
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
Directed by Laura Lindow
Colour It In
Ugly Sister
Directed by Hamish MacDougall
Geisha Girls
Bush Theatre
Directed by Madani Younis
Dot to Dot Active Arts
Writer & Performer
Lashes and Taches
Northern Stage
Writer & Director
East 15 (Acting & Stage Combat)
Directed by Shane Dempsey
Snap
Young Vic
Directed by Ng Choon Ping
2012
Paines Plough
Come to Where I’m From
Writer & Performer
Bush Theatre
Directed by Madani Younis
‘Most Promising New Playwright’ at Off West End Theatre Awards (Nominated)
‘Writer of the Year’ at Journal Culture Awards (Finalist)
‘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
Rola Cola
Ugly Sister
Directed by Rachel Valentine-Smith
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit
NTC
Directed by Gillian Hambleton
Monster
Bold as Brass
Directed by Jackie Fielding
2011
No Wire Hangers
Soho Theatre
Directed by Nina Steiger
$h!t Disco
Royal Exchange Theatre
Longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize 2011
Me, Fatty
Ugly Sister
Directed by Anthony Coleridge
Chicken Pox Fox/Live Theatre
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
2010
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
Julian Scary
Live Theatre
Directed by Amy Golding
Freddy Hearts Freddie
Ugly Sister
Directed by Julia McShane
2009
I Heart Morrissey
Live Theatre
Directed by Jackie Fielding
The Tufty Club
NTC
Directed by Helen Ferguson
2008
The Bang Gang
Bad Fox Theatre
Directed by Katie Posner
‘Genuinely disturbing and brilliantly-written’
The Stage
Live Theatre
Directed by Steve Gilroy
‘This play has a big heart and an
even bigger mouth’
Guardian
Swan Song
New Writing North
Directed by Max Roberts
Shitty Shitty Bang Bang
Live Theatre
Directed by Jeremy Herrin
/// Radio
2018
BBC Radio 3 (I Told You I Was Ill)
Directed by Pauline Harris
2017
BBC Radio 4 Online
Directed by Sharon Sephton
2016
BBC Radio 3 (Sonnets in the City)
Directed by Nadia Molinari
2014
BBC Radio 4 (Afternoon Drama,
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
Directed by Yve Ngoo
Snowglobe
BBC Radio Newcastle
Directed by Yve Ngoo
Winner of BBC Sport Shorts
/// Film
in development
2022
Elevator Productions/BFI Network
Directed by Andy McVicar
Winner of Royal Television Society 2023 Drama Performance
The Seagull (& Other Poems)
Elevator Productions
Show Pony
Knock & Nash
