Chris Foxon

Chris is Executive Director of Papatango. In 2022 he was named in The Stage 25.

Productions for the company include: Old Bridge, winner of the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre, the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright and OffWestEnd Awards for Most Promising Playwright and Best Sound (Bush Theatre); Some of Us Exist in the Future, The Silence and the Noise and Ghost Stories from an Old Country (UK Tour); Shook (Southwark Playhouse/UK Tour; also broadcast on Sky Arts); The Funeral Director (Southwark Playhouse/UK Tour); Hanna (Arcola Theatre/UK Tour); Here, Trestle, Orca and Tomcat (Southwark Playhouse); After Independence, winner of the Alfred Fagon Audience Award (Arcola Theatre/BBC Radio 4); and Coolatully, Unscorched, Pack and Everyday Maps for Everyday Use (Finborough Theatre).

Chris’s other productions include: The Transatlantic Commissions (Old Vic Theatre); Donkey Heart (Old Red Lion Theatre/West End); The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre/Akasaka Red Theatre, Tokyo); The Keepers of Infinite Space (Park Theatre) and Happy New (West End).

As a playwright, Chris wrote The Watch House, adapted from Robert Westall’s novel, which has toured nationally and been published by Methuen Drama. He is also the co-author of Being A Playwright: A Career Guide For Writers.

Chris is a trustee of November Club, a performing arts charity in his native Northumberland, and has lectured at the universities of Oxford and York and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.