Tim Firth

Tim Firth
Tim Firth's theatre credits include Greatest Days, Now Is Good (UK Theatre nomination best musical) This Is My Family (Sheffield Crucible, UK Theatre Award Best New Musical), Neville's Island (Nottingham Playhouse and West End, Evening Standard & Olivier nomination, MEN Award), The Safari Party (Stephen Joseph, Scarborough and Hampstead), the musical Our House (West End, Olivier Award Best Musical), The Flint Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse) and Sign of the Times (UK tour and West End). His play Calendar Girls (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End) broke all British records for a professional and amateur play, was nominated for an Olivier and won the Whatsonstage Best Comedy Award. Calendar Girls – The Musical, co-written with Gary Barlow, opened at Leeds Opera House and transferred to the Phoenix Theatre in the West End, winning a Whatsonstage Award and an Olivier nomination. His musical The Band opened its national tour in the UK, winning the MEN best Musical award, before transferring to the Haymarket Theatre.
Tim’s film credits include Blackball, Calendar Girls (British Comedy Award) and Kinky Boots (Best International Film, Florida FF). Tim’s most recent film, The Wedding Video, was directed by Nigel Cole.
Recent work for television includes the Playhouse drama Timeless. His other TV credits include Money for Nothing (Writer’s Guild Award), The Rottentrolls (BAFTA Award), Cruise of the Gods, The Flint Street Nativity and Preston Front (Writer’s Guild Award, British Comedy Award, RTS Award, BAFTA nomination). In 2004 Tim developed a season of single comedy plays entitled Trapped. Most recently The Rottentrolls was voted one of the top 50 children’s shows of all time.
In 2019 a new production of This Is My Family starring Jimmy Nesbitt and Sheila Hancock opened at Chichester Festival Theatre, and a new all-female production of Neville’s Island, called Sheila's Island, is planned for 2022.
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Calendar Girls
Tim Firth
Full-Length Play, ComedyCalendar Girls
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 9w, 4m
Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund.
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Calendar Girls The Musical
Tim Firth, Gary Barlow
Full-Length Musical, ComedyCalendar Girls The Musical
Gary Barlow , Tim Firth
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 10w, 5m, 1girl(s), 2boy(s)
The death of a much-loved husband prompts a group of ordinary women in a small Yorkshire Women's Institute to do an extraordinary thing.
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The End of the Food Chain
Tim Firth
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyThe End of the Food Chain
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 5m
Welcome to the 'animal shift' at Kale Moor grocery distribution depot. Under the guidance of Bruce, work here is an endless round of sports and juvenile humour. But a change is due, for their new colleague is not a born games player and is — even worse — a woman.
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Sheila's Island
Tim Firth
Full-Length Play, ComedySheila's Island
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w
Bonfire night 2019, Sheila, Denise, Julie, and Fay are Team C in Pennine Mineral Water Ltd.’s annual outward-bound team-building weekend. Somehow, Sheila has been nominated team leader, and, using her cryptic crossword solving skills, has unwittingly stranded her team on an island in the Lake District.
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Calendar Girls
Tim Firth
Full-Length Play, ComedyCalendar Girls
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 9w, 4m
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Calendar Girls The Musical
Tim Firth, Gary Barlow
Full-Length Musical, ComedyCalendar Girls The Musical
Gary Barlow , Tim Firth
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 10w, 5m, 1girl(s), 2boy(s)
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The End of the Food Chain
Tim Firth
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyThe End of the Food Chain
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 5m
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Sheila's Island
Tim Firth
Full-Length Play, ComedySheila's Island
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w