Fred Lawless
Fred Lawless – Playwright
Born	Dingle,Liverpool,England
Education	St Patrick's School,Toxteth, Wade Deacon Grammar School,Widnes,Liverpool Catering College
Occupation(s)	Playwright, television writer, radio writer
Known for	Writing for stage, television, and radio
Notable work	EastEnders, Royal Court Theatre Liverpool Christmas shows

Fred Lawless is a British playwright fromLiverpool who writes mainly for the stage, but also for television and radio.

Fred Lawless was born inDingle, Liverpool. He attended St Patrick's School inToxteth before his family moved toHalewood. He later attendedWade Deacon Grammar School, Widnes.

After grammar school he attended Liverpool Catering College and trained as a hotel manager, eventually working in severalLiverpool City Centre hotels. Several years later he gave up hotel management and ran a stall at the famous Paddy's Market in Liverpool. While working there he met Jonte Wilkins, and the two of them started the UK's firstkissogram company,^[1] Champagne-a-gram, from an office inAigburth. Shortly after Wilkins left for the US and eventually became the drummer for the British banda Flock of Seagulls.

Lawless continued to run thekissogram business for several years, eventually employing 30 staff. One of the kissogram staff he employed wasMal Young who worked for him as aTarzan-a-gram. After leaving Champagne-a-gram Young entered the TV industry and eventually became producer of Liverpool-based soap operaBrookside. Many years later Young interviewed Lawless with a view to him joining the writing team at Brookside, but instead he chose to write forEastEnders. In addition to his TV work, he has also written forBBC Radio. Nowadays he works primarily in theatre and wrote the Christmas show at the Royal Court Theatre Liverpool from 2009 until 2016.

Lawless is a director of The Script Vault Ltd,^[2] a script registration service for writers who wish to protect their copyright.

He is a lifelongEverton supporter and season ticket holder.^[3]

• BEST! – a fictional comedy musical aboutthe Beatles and their first drummerPete Best at Liverpool'sEveryman Theatre and theDublin Theatre Festival.^[4][5]
• Sleeping Cities, Distant Dreams – at theRoyal Exchange Theatre module inManchester.
• Educating Peter – at theLiverpool Playhouse Studio.
• Beyond Benidorm – at theLiverpool Playhouse Studio.
• Slappers and Slapheads – a comedy (co-written withLen Pentin) first performed in 2003 at theRoyal Court Theatre, Liverpool.^[6] The play was staged again in 2004 at theLiverpool Empire Theatre and theManchester Opera House, before returning again to theRoyal Court Theatre, Liverpool in February 2009.^[7] Following the 2009 production the play won the Liverpool Daily Post Readers Award for Best Production and Best Comedy^[8]
• Merry Ding Dong – a comedy musical staged at theRoyal Court Theatre, Liverpool from 11 December 2009 to 23 January 2010.^[9][10]
• A Fistful of Collars – a comedy staged at theRoyal Court Theatre, Liverpool from 16 April 2010 to 15 May 2010.^[11][12]
• Scouse Pacific – a comedy musical staged at theRoyal Court Theatre, Liverpool from 26 November 2010 to 8 January 2011. The show was extended until 15 January and then extended again until 22 January.^[13][14][15]
• Little Scouse on the Prairie – a comedy musical staged at theRoyal Court Theatre, Liverpool from 25 November 2011 to 7 January 2012. The show was extended until 21 January.^[16][17][18]
• A Nightmare on Lime Street – a comedy musical staged at theRoyal Court Theatre, Liverpool from 23 November 2012 to 12 January 2013. The show was extended until 26 January.^{[19][20][21][22]}
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley – a comedy musical staged at theRoyal Court Theatre, Liverpool from 22 November 2013 to 11 January 2014.^{[23][24][25][26]}
• Scouse Of The Antarctic – a comedy musical staged at theRoyal Court Theatre, Liverpool from 21 November 2014 to 17 January 2015.^{[27][28][29][30][31]}
• Pharaoh 'Cross The Mersey – a comedy musical staged at theRoyal Court Theatre, Liverpool from 27 November 2015 to 16 January 2016.^[32][33]

• EastEnders –BBC One
• Family Affairs –Channel 5
• Crossroads (2001) –Carlton Television

• Close Enough To Touch – a dramatisation of the 1939HMS Thetis submarine disaster inLiverpool Bay forBBC Radio 4,BBC Radio Merseyside and theBBC World Service.^[34]
• Paradise People – a 24 part comedy series forBBC Radio Merseyside (co-written with Len Pentin)

Fred Lawless atIMDb

• www.radiolistings.co.uk Details of radio plays written by Fred Lawless
• Liverpool Echo Article about Fred Lawless"Unknown". Retrieved10 January 2020.^{[dead link‍]}
• Doollee – The Playwrights Database Details of stage plays written by Fred Lawless
• Royal Court Liverpool website
• Writers' Guild Article about Fred Lawless
• Wikipedia page for HMS Thetis
• The Script Vault website

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• British comedy writers
• British male television writers
• English dramatists and playwrights
• English male dramatists and playwrights
• English soap opera writers
• English television writers
• People from Dingle, Liverpool
• Writers from Liverpool
• English radio writers

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