Landmines (Multiplay Drama)

Phil Davies is a playwright and screenwriter. His debut play Firebird premiered at the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs and subsequently transferred to Trafalgar Studios. Other theatre work includes short play How to Not Murder (Arcola Theatre, dir. Ned Bennett); Up the Dale (Royal Exchange Theatre and Queen Elizabeth Hall for Paines Plough); Adjusted (Interplay Europe, Utrecht) and The Makings (ATG, dir. Sarah Dickinson).

For radio, Phil has written The Punjab (BBC Radio 4) and Girl X was a winner at the BBC’s 2016 Alfred Bradley Bursary Awards. Phil is currently under commission to Sky to write the scripts for The Few, a new police drama he has created with Minnow Films, inspired by the award-winning BBC documentary series The Detectives. He is also developing drama The Loss Adjusters with Warp Films and has written the pilot episode of Amsterdam-based drama Posthumus for Endor Films.

Phil trained at the Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme where he developed his first script A Leg and a Wing which won the Rod Hall Memorial Award. In addition to writing, Phil works alongside Synergy Theatre Project developing scripts with inmates in prisons and Young Offender Institutions.