How far could you go to get what you want?
A contemporary tale of desire and greed, FEAR explores the impact of a life changing encounter between two Londoners from contrasting worlds.
Taking a deeper look at what we value and fear, BAFTA award winner Dominic Savage’s stage debut is a raw journey into the heart of some of our deepest urban anxieties.
“Savage’s work is the last word in gritty drama” Guardian
Dominic is a multii award-winning documentary, film and television maker. Writing and directing credits include upcoming BBC1 drama True Love (starring David Tennant and Billy Piper), Nice Girl (Best New Director BAFTA), When I Was 12 ( BAFTA Award for Best Single Film), Out of Control in 2002 (RTS best single drama, Micheal Powell award best film Edinburgh Film Fest).
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Dominic Savage began his career as a documentary film maker. His documentary work for television includes a number of films made for Channel 4, including Seaside Organist for the Short Story strand, The Outsiders (nominated for the Grierson award) and Rogue Males & The Complainers for Cutting Edge. He has also made a number of documentaries for the BBC.
In 2000 Savage turned to fiction and wrote and directed Nice Girl for BBC Drama, winning the BAFTA Award for New Director Fiction 2001. Nice Girl was also nominated for Best Single Drama and Innovation at the BAFTA Television Awards 2001.
He then wrote and directed When I Was 12 in 2001 for BBC Screen Two, winning the BAFTA Award for Best Single Film. Then came Out of Control in 2002 (BBC One), winning the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2002, the Royal Television Society Award, and Broadcast awards for Best Single Film 2003.
LOVE + HATE was Savage’s first feature. Released nationwide in May 2006, the film premièred at the Berlin Film Festival in 2005, winning awards at Giffoni, Palm Springs, Malmo, and Ziln Film Festivals.
Single dramas Born Equal (BBC One) starring Colin Firth, Anne Marie Duff and Robert Carlyle, and Freefall, (BBC Two) starring Dominic Cooper, Anna Maxwell Martin and Aiden Gillan, followed.
In 2010, he wrote a two-part television drama with Simon Stephens that he directed for BBC Two called Dive.
Savage’s latest work for television is a semi-improvised, five-part drama series entitled Love Life, all shot in his hometown of Margate, for BBC One, due to be screened in May this year.
Forthcoming shows: Orpheus (Salzburg Festival), Infidel (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Mary Poppins (Ronacher Theater, Vienna).
Previous work includes: Beauty and the Beast (Young Vic), Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein (Olivier, National Theatre) Olivier Award nomination 2012, Backbeat(Duke of York’s Theatre), The Mysteries and The Good Hope (Cottesloe, National Theatre), The Railway Children (Waterloo International Station and Roundhouse Theatre Toronto) Olivier Award nomination 2011, Fatal Attraction (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Backbeat (Duke Of Yorks), Phoenix and Babylon (BigHouse Theatre),1 hour 18 minutes (Sputnik Theatre), FEAR (Bush Theatre), His Teeth (Only Connect Theatre), The Wiz (Birmingham Rep and West Yorkshire Playhouse), Baby Doll (Albery Theatre), Alex (Arts Theatre, UK and international tour), Happy Now?(Hull Truck Theatre), Old Times, A Doll’s House (Donmar Warehouse), Bad Man Christmas (HMP Wormwood Scrubs), The Wizard Of Oz and Sandi ToksvigsChristmas Cracker (Royal Festival Hall), Singular Sensations (Haymarket Theatre), Twelfth Night, A Slice of Saturday Night (Queens Theatre Hornchurch), The Milk Train Doesnt Stop Here Anymore, Treasure Island, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari,Kindertotenlieder, Then Again, Angela Carters Cinderella, Cause Celebre, Mrs Warrens Profession, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith), Moti Roti Puttli Chunni, Running Dream and Mike Leighs Its A Great Big Shame(Theatre Royal Stratford East)
As Associate Sound Designer: The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury Theatre) All That Fall (59E59 Theatre New York), MatthewBourne’s Early Adventures (UK tour), Dorian Gray (Orchard Theatre, Tokyo), Mary Poppins (UK national tour, Circustheater Scheveningen and US tour), My Fair Lady (UK and US national tours), Acorn Antiques (UK national tour), The Witches (UK national tour), Return To The Forbidden Planet (UK national tour), Soul Train (UK tour).
Ed also tours regularly with Van der Graaf Generator, and has previously toured with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Blue Man Group, The John Tams Band, Evelyn Glennie, and Talvin Singh.
Credits for the Bush include The Royale (2015), Disgraced and Fear.
West End credits include Dance ‘til Dawn (Aldwych), Midnight Tango (Phoenix, Aldwych), Never Forget (Savoy), Storm in a Flower Vase (Arts Theatre), Footloose (Novello, Playhouse), Holding the Man (Trafalgar Studios), The Female of the Species (Vaudeville), Calamity Jane (Shaftesbury).
Other recent credits include Miss Julie / Black Comedy, A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, Wallenstein, Funny Girl, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Witches, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Alice in Wonderland and The Snow Queen (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Dumb Waiter (The Print Room), The Good Person of Sichuan (Mercury, Colchester), The Jungle Book (Citizens, Glasgow), Stroke of Luck (The Park), Bully Boy (St James, London and Royal, Northampton), April in Paris, The Odd Couple, Moonlight and Magnolias and Twelfth Night (Perth Theatre), A Christmas Carol, Arcadia, Grimm Tales and Gates of Gold (Library Theatre, Manchester), The Absence of Women (Lyric, Belfast), James and the Giant Peach (Birmingham Stage Company), A Voyage Round My Father (Salisbury Playhouse), Loves Labours Lost (Rose Theatre), Salonika (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Animal Farm (Bath Theatre Royal) and Monkee Business (Manchester Opera House). For Tall Stories credits include The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, Emily Brown and the Thing and Snow White.
Theatre includes: Clybourne Park (Royal Court and Wyndhams Theatre); Short Fuses (Bristol Old Vic); Once on This Island (Hackney Empire & Tour); Things of Dry Hours (Royal Exchange & Gate Theatre); 93.2FM (Royal Court); Trade (RSC); The Big Life, Funny Black Women on the Edge (Stratford East).
Television includes: Dominic Savage’s True Love, Outnumbered, Much Ado About Nothing, French and Saunders, Family Business, Rough Treatment and Bad Girls.
Film includes: Les Miserables, World War Z, Gambit, Little Soldier.
Television includes: Dominic Savage’s True Love, Black Mirror: The National Anthem.
Film includes: Offender, My Brother The Devil, Zero Dark Thirty, Laid Off, Ghost, Some Dogs Bite.
Theatre for the Bush includes Flight Path.
Other theatre includes: Sucker Punch (Royal Court), Pornography (Tricycle Theatre, Mad Blud Theatre).
Television includes: Silk, Whitechapel, The Titanic and Trial & Retribution; and for film, Get Lucky, Tribe, The Man Inside, Welcome to the Punch, Outside Bet, The Knot and Victim.
Theatre credits include: Suddenly Last Summer (Nottingham Playhouse); Tartuffe (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Cyrano de Bergerac (Haymarket Theatre). Television includes: The Bible, Vexed, Scott & Bailey, Waterloo Road, The Good Samaritan, Torchwood, The Rise and Fall of Rome, The Chatterley Affair, No Angels and People Like Us. Film includes: The List, U Want Me 2 Kill Him, A Boy Called Dad, Daddy’s Girl, The Boys, Family Business, Born Romantic and Judge Dredd.
Theatre for the Bush includes Fear and the Broken Space Season.
Other theatre includes: Life is a Dream, Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Donmar Warehouse); Romeo and Juliet, King John (RSC); Breathing Corpses (Royal Court); Sweet Panic (Duke of York’s Theatre).
Television includes: World Without End, The Little House, Emma, Monday Monday, The Palace, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fingersmith, North and South and Sons and Lovers.
Film includes: The Incident, Elfie Hopkins, Sidney Turtlebaum, Agora, Guamtanamero, Otto and Hellboy.
