Background
Harris was born in Kingswood, near Bristol, and attended Kingsfield School.
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Later he trained as an actor at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London. In 2012 he created Brass Works Theatre – South Gloucestershire’s first professional theatre venue - and he is the current Artistic., The first production was Engineers" Blue, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and South Gloucestershire Council. Writer His first theatre play Shoes was staged as part of Start Nights at Hampstead Theatre in 2005.
In 2007 the double-bill of Call Maine and Post Box were premiered at the Alma Theatre, Bristol, followed by Tommy’s Wait at Plays for the Pro Cathedral in Bristol.
In that same year Harris’s feature-length screenplay was runner up in the South West Screen Screenwriter Competition. In 2011 Harris was commissioned by the Writers’ Forum at the Ustinov Theatre to write The Fairer Race for Game:play with Bath Spa University, which was performed as February’s Script Factory.
This was followed by Exit Only, which was Harris’s play written for the 24 Hour Plays at the Theatre Royal Bath – Ustinov Studio. In 2012 Harris received a grant from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation to write Engineers’ Blue.
His play Deep Pit was long listed and made the readers" top 40 in the Bruntwood Prize for Playwrighting in 2013.
Deep Pit was then successfully produced at Brass Works Theatre with a Grants for the Arts from Arts Council England.
Membership
As a writer Harris is a member of Southwest Scriptwriters and The Writers’ Forum The Tobacco Factory Theatre.
