Career
He now commutes between France and the United Kingdom. Boardman-Jacobs was Reader in Theatre & Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan. His research interests include Holocaust drama, Yiddish theatre, gay and lesbian theatre, Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca, and the Spanish Civil War. These interests are reflected in his plays.
Sam recently took an Master of Arts in Choreography at Laban, London, and now makes choreographic dance theatre with Foundation Reality Dance Theatre, Cardiff, of which he is artistic director
Play Federico Foreign Maine is the fictional story of Catalan actress Margarita Xirgu, who, during her exile after the Spanish Civil War, depends upon the ghost of Federico García Lorca, in her political-artistic battle with Eva Perón over the first performance of Lorca"s "The House of Bernarda Alba". His translation and adaptation of Lorca"s El público was produced by the Foundation Reality Theatre Company in 2005.
His 2007 radio play, The Sixth Column Has Better Legs, describes the experiences of four chorus girls in Madrid while the city is under siege. Passion for the Impossible tells the story of Violette Leduc and Jean Genet in wartime Paris and Red Hot and Blue is the story of singer Libby Holman, on the night before her suicide, as she looks back over a life that included a murder trial, an affair with Montgomery Clift and early Civil Rights campaigning during the Second World War.
In 2003 he taught for the Lemonia Disabled Writers" Residential Course, a project organised by Graeae Theatre Company, Writernet and Tŷ Newydd.
The production of his 2004 play, Embracing Barbarians, based on the political and sexual fantasies of dying Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, Sam attempted to make the piece accessible to both deaf and hearing performers and audiences, while casting a deaf performer in the role of a hearing character. He has taught on several Writing Menoring and Dramaturgy courses at venues ranging from The Soho Theatre and The Actor"s centre London to the Arvon Foundation and Ty Newydd in North Wales and on Master of Arts in Scriptwriting courses in Cardiff and Exeter. He now teaches Master classes in Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy in France and the United Kingdom. He was also a scriptwriter for 12 years on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s The Archers and one of the writers for Channel 4"s Brookside.
He translates from Spanish to English.
Her Name Was Milena 1982 Last Friday in Jerusalem 1984 Fanny Rosen"s Bad Debt 1985 After Every Dream 1988 Facing the Sun 1986 After Every Dream 1988 Doesn"t Everyone Live in a Ballroom? 1991 Hangover Square (dramatised from Patrick Hamilton"s novel) 1994 The Abduction of Esther Lyons, 1999 One Pair of Hands, (5 Participant Series) 2001 (adaptation of the novel by Monica Dickens) The Sixth Column Has Better Legs (5-part series) 2007 with Foundation Reality Dance Theatre: Soft Murders (three dance theatre pieces based on the paintings of three gay artists: Gilbert & George, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon. Chapter Arts Theatre.
Atrium Theatre Cardiff. Cardiff and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.
