Michael Snelgrove

Michael Snelgrove wrote his first play Belladonna (based on Coleridge's Christabel) for the Maidenhead Players. It won Best Original Play and came second in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival. Two years later, he wrote Definitely Eric Geddis for the same company: it won the Open Class, Best Original Play and Best Staging and went on to the finals of the All England Competition.

Many other winning plays followed, including Hidden Meanings (which went on to the British One Act Play Final), Maurice Dancing; Centuries (about Nostradamus); Sleep Tight Tonight; Urban Cycles and Bums On Seats - later turned into a full-length play which got four stars from The Scotsman at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. For Backstage Theatre Company he wrote Marking Time, which had a month's run on the London Fringe, For the same company he wrote Stacked (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), about an air traffic controller suffering a nervous breakdown and Gaspers (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), about a tobacco company-sponsored Everest expedition.

He wrote two Christmas Plays for the Wilde Theatre at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell: When Dinah Saw A Dinosaur and Max And The Missing Melody Mystery.

He's also written plays for Radio 4 and a Radio 4 comedy series, The Phenomenon Squad, starring Roy Kinnear, Simon Cadell and Susie Blake.