Dr David Cottis

Senior Lecturer in Scriptwriting

Media and Performing Arts

David Cottis is Senior Lecturer in Scriptwriting and Programme Leader for BA Film at Middlesex University. He received his Ph. D from Birkbeck College. He is also a theatre director, writer, lyricist, and dramaturg, most recently working with James Martin Charlton on the horror play Black Stone for Just Some Theatre Company. His five-actor adaptation of Oliver Twist was taken on national tour by the Love and Madness Company, his short plays Cash and Semolina were seen at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and his opera libretto She Stops at Costa's was shortlisted for the English National Opera's 'New Voices' project. He has edited A Dirty Broth and A Ladder of Words, two anthologies of Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English for the Parthian Press, and wrote the chapter on Anthony Newley amore...

First Class BA (Hons) in English Literature and Drama, University of East Anglia, 1985 Postgraduate Diploma in Theatre Studies, Univeristy of Wales, 1988 PGCHE, Middlesex University, 2018 Ph.D, Birkbeck College, 2020

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  1. Cottis, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-5552 (2022) Clemence Dane's Broome Stages - novel and play. In: From treading boards to the Book Society: Clemence Dane and her circle in the 1920s-1950s, 6-7 October 2022, Senate House, University of London. . [Conference or Workshop Item]
  2. Cottis, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-5552 (2022) Dracula's Daughter - the umade, unmakeable script. In: Shadow Screens: Unmade, Unseen, Unreleased Film and Television conference, 23rd and 24th May 2022, Sheffield Hallam University. . [Conference or Workshop Item]
  3. Cottis, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-5552 (2021) Scarred for life volume two: TV in the 1980's [Review]. Wales Arts Review . [Article]
  4. Cottis, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-5552 (2021) What does non-chronological storytelling tell us about the nature of cinema? In: Narrative, Media and Cognition VI – Reconfigurations: New Narrative Challenges of the Moving Image, 14-16 Oct 2021, Theatre and Film School, Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Portugal. . [Conference or Workshop Item]
  5. Cottis, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-5552 (2020) Bond at the Olympics: On Her Majesty's (Public) Service [Blog post]. In Media Res, A MediaCommons project. [Other]
  6. Cottis, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-5552 (2019) Review of The Wind of Heaven (Finborough Theatre). Wales Arts Review . [Article]
  7. Cottis, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-5552 (2019) Review of Maggie May (Finborough Theatre). Wales Arts Review . [Article]
  8. Cottis, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-5552 (2017) Towards a British concept musical: the shows of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. In: The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical. Gordon, Robert and Jubin, Olaf, eds. Oxford Handbooks . Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 309-330. ISBN 9780199988747, pbk-ISBN 9780190943516. [Book Section] (doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988747.013.12)
  9. Cottis, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-5552 (2018) Theatre: A Recipe for Sloe Gin (Clock Tower) [Review]. Wales Arts Review . [Article]
  10. Cottis, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-5552 (2018) TV: BBC's King Lear [Review]. Wales Arts Review . [Article]