"Solo shows where one actor plays eighteen characters
tend to be tripped up by their own virtuosity: not here.
Shale creates concrete characters; touching, comic
and tragic in all their desperate humanity"

- Lyn Gardner, The Guardian (reviewing The Prince of West End Avenue)

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Writing CV

1985 A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, stage adaptation
Nominated Best One Person Show, London Fringe Awards

1986 A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, BBC radio adaptation (90 min)

1987 DREAMING OF BABYLON, stage adaptation
Nominated Best One Person Show, London Fringe Awards

1988 THE WOODY ALLEN READER, BBC radio adaptation (15 min x 6)

1989 HOW I GOT THAT STORY, BBC radio adaptation (90 min)

1991 THE SET-UP, BBC radio adaptation (90 min)
Best Radio Actor - Sony Award (Silver)

1992 THE SET-UP, stage adaptation, Gate Theatre, London
Winner - Best One Person Show, London Fringe Awards

1993 DR STRANGELOVE, BBC radio dramatisation (60 min x 2)
Winner - Sony Award (Silver) Best Radio Dramatisation
Winner - Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Radio Dramatisation

1994 MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, BBC radio adaptation (100 min)

1994 THE THIRTEEN CLOCKS, BBC radio dramatisation (15 min x 3)

1995 THE WILD PARTY, BBC radio adaptation (30 min)

1995 LAKE NO BOTTOM, BBC radio adaptation (60 min)

1996 WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN? BBC radio dramatisation (60 min x 2)

1996 ... BY WOODY ALLEN, BBC radio adaptation (25 min x 5)

1997 THE PRINCE OF WEST END AVENUE, stage adaptation of novel by Alan Isler

1998 WHAT AM I DOING HERE? newspaper feature (Sydney Telegraph)

2000 MY NIGHT WITH THE HAPPY HOOKER, newspaper feature (The Guardian)

2001-02 Book reviews for THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE magazine

2002 THE PRINCE OF WEST END AVENUE, BBC radio dramatisation (90 min)
Nominated Best Radio Production - Sony Awards

2001-04 Linking material for KERRY SHALE'S LISTY SHOW,
weekly music radio programme on Oneword Radio

2002 CAVEMAN, INC. - stage adaptation of a novella (PASTORALIA) by George Saunders

2001 A DOG'S LIFE, Sony PlayStation 2 game, Nominated BAFTA Award - Best Children's Game
STUART LITTLE 3, Sony PlayStation 2 game

2002 Column for THE WORD, nationally distributed UK music magazine

2005 THE HARDER THEY FALL, BBC radio dramatisation, Friday Night Play (60 min)

2003 to present: Columns and comedy sketches for FRONT ROW, BBC Radio 4 Arts programme.

2010 IT'S CHINATOWN, short story for ACTOR'S WORDS series, BBC Radio 4 (15 min)


Kerry Shale

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