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Jon Welch

Playwright, musician, director.

Jon studied French and German at Keble College, Oxford, before becoming a schoolteacher. Some years later he retrained as an actor at LAMDA, working in London on stage and in TV before beginning to write full-time. He has received great acclaim as writer for cube theatre (The Uninvited, Wooden Heart, Freddie Dare and the Ginger Robber, Aubade), and has been part of new writing projects with Bristol Old Vic (Ferment), the Hall for Cornwall and Theatre 503 (Responses), as well as being commissioned for the People's Company at Plymouth Theatre Royal. He also writes and directs tailor-made plays for schools and community groups. A talented musician, he sees sound as an integral part of the theatrical experience. He now writes full-time for Pipeline Theatre Company (www.pipelinetheatre.com), which has produced four plays: 'Transports' (looking at refugee/Kindertransport issues), 'Streaming' (investigating the world of online webcam sex), 'Spillikin' (a piece about robotic care for Alzheimer's) and lately 'Swivelhead', currently showing at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016, a story about an RAF drone pilot, undergoing a breakdown.

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