Philip Osment is a playwright, theatre director, dramaturg, teacher and workshop leader. He trained as an actor and performed with leading alternative theatre companies of the 1970s and 80s, including Gay Sweatshop and Shared Experience. He went on to write plays for Mike Alfreds at Method and Madness including his award-winning trilogy of Devon plays. His plays for children and young people include LITTLE VIOLET AND THE ANGEL which won the Peggy Ramsay Award, and which he later adapted for radio; and WHOLE, winner of a Writers Guild award. MAURICE by E M. Forster and THE TIME MACHINE by HG Wells number among his other radio adaptations He has also translated for Graeae Theatre Company, The Royal Court and for the RSC's Spanish Golden Age season (PEDRO THE GREAT PRETENDER). In 2010 he set up Playing ON with Jim Pope which produced his first play for the company INSIDE.

Philip Osment is a playwright, theatre director, dramaturg, teacher and workshop leader. He trained as an actor and performed with leading alternative theatre companies of the 1970s and 80s, including Gay Sweatshop and Shared Experience. He went on to write plays for Mike Alfreds at Method and Madness including his award-winning trilogy of Devon plays. His plays for children and young people include LITTLE VIOLET AND THE ANGEL which won the Peggy Ramsay Award, and which he later adapted for radio; and WHOLE, winner of a Writers Guild award. MAURICE by E M. Forster and THE TIME MACHINE by HG Wells number among his other radio adaptations He has also translated for Graeae Theatre Company, The Royal Court and for the RSC's Spanish Golden Age season (PEDRO THE GREAT PRETENDER). In 2010 he set up Playing ON with Jim Pope which produced his first play for the company INSIDE.

Philip Osment is a playwright, theatre director, dramaturg, teacher and workshop leader. He trained as an actor and performed with leading alternative theatre companies of the 1970s and 80s, including Gay Sweatshop and Shared Experience. He went on to write plays for Mike Alfreds at Method and Madness including his award-winning trilogy of Devon plays. His plays for children and young people include LITTLE VIOLET AND THE ANGEL which won the Peggy Ramsay Award, and which he later adapted for radio; and WHOLE, winner of a Writers Guild award. MAURICE by E M. Forster and THE TIME MACHINE by HG Wells number among his other radio adaptations He has also translated for Graeae Theatre Company, The Royal Court and for the RSC's Spanish Golden Age season (PEDRO THE GREAT PRETENDER). In 2010 he set up Playing ON with Jim Pope which produced his first play for the company INSIDE.