Michael Southan

Michael Southan is a playwright and poet from Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. His play KERBS (Graeae Theatre Company) opened at Belgrade Theatre Coventry in February 2022. Fred and Ginger (Gritty Theatre) toured fringe venues and festivals across the UK. He is an alumni of Graeae Theatre Company’s Write To Play; a development programme for deaf and disabled artists, and Birmingham REP’s Foundry scheme. In 2018 he was accepted onto BBC Writersroom’s inaugural Writers’ Access Group.

Michael’s radio play, A Moments’ Paws was part of the Connections series, nominated for a BBC Audio Drama Award in 2021. His first full length audio drama How To Build a DJ (Naked Productions) was transmitted on BBC Radio 4 in 2023.

Michael is also a spoken word poet, having been commission by Apples and Snakes. His debut poetry pamphlet was published in 2020 by West Midlands spoken word collective Poets Prattlers and Pandemonialists

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