CAMDEN McDONALD                                                         19 Colville Rd                                                                                                         London

                                                                                                            W11 2BT

Date of Birth: 25/2/59                                                

Union: Equity F89114

camdenmc@gmail.com                                                                      (Mobile) +447866-255560

EDUCATION

1970-75 Derby Grammar School, Derbyshire - 4 'O' levels

1983       Practical 16mm film making course at Manchester School of Film and Video

1997-99 M.A. in advanced theatre practice, Central School of Speech & Drama, London

GENERAL

1977-81 Actor/Teacher, performing and devising Theatre-in-Education for young people with Theatre Workshop Edinburgh, National Trust Theatre, and others.

1985-99 Director Roar Material Theatre Co-op:

Plays including: One For The Road by Harold Pinter , The Odd Couple by Neil Simon, The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant by R.W. Fassbinder, Eva Peron by Copi, Prospero at the Gates of Dawn, and Midsummer Night's Dreamscape.

RECENT WORK:

2009 IBASHO, dv short, Shihoko Nagai, Associate Producer

2007 SHIP MILK, dv short, Camera & Co-Writer with Shihoko Nagai

2007 EALING COMEDY, hd feature, Neville Raschid, Casting Director

2005 HALAL HARRY, hd feature, 26th February Films, Russel Razaque, Casting Director

2004 BEFORE THE SUNSET, hd short, Hal Cheng, NSFT, 1^st AD

2000 ROOM 36, 35mm feature, 1^st AD and Production Manager to Jim Groom

WRITING

Film scripts:

2009 SUNFLOWERS FACE THE SUN - screenplay, with Ebun Culwin

2007 Probability A - feature treatment based on the novel by Brian Aldiss

2006 Nobody's Land - feature screenplay with Silvio Narizzano

2002 Zombie God Squad - rewrite for Producer Jim Groom

2000 The Man with the Plan – feature film treatment with Lucien Morgan

1998 Strange Colours – video screenplay

1994 The Big Picture – video installation, Basement Video Project/ Manchester Festival

1984 Land Of Cokaygne - 16mm short, British Film Institute

Scripts for radio:

1993 Topical Comedy Sketches - BBC Radio 5
1988 The Big Croon - comedy/thriller Serial - 2 episodes

Fiction:

2002 The President - short story

1997 The Magnum Executive, The Magnum Effect, Revenge Of The Frumps - short stories.
The Magnum Typist – novella

1995 A Series Of Strange And Inexplicable Events - 50,000 word novel

1994 The Wonderful World Of Magnum - Short Story; Metropolitan Magazine, Spring

1988 My Life At Magnum - Short story; Critical Quarterly, Autumn.

Performance pieces written for Roar Material Co-op; performed for National Revue of Live Art, Manchester City of Drama, London fringe theatre:

1999 Everyday Life In The Eighties

1998 Everyday Life In The Sixties

1992 Everyday Life In Berlin

1990 Everyday Life In Paris Rome & Munich

1989 Everyday Life In Hollywood, Everyday Life In Japan

1988 Invasion Of The Cliches

INTERESTS

Science and Science Fiction; The Media; Psychology; History; Linguistics.

Music; Film and film theory; experimental film, theatre and performance.

Outsiders.

References available on request. Research CV available on request.

One "Film For Sale" Listed:

Room 36 90 mins. 35mm. Suspense. eng. $2. Completed. P: Jim Groom & Tim Dennison. D: Jim Groom. W: Groom, Dennison, Read. C: Brian Murphy, Norman Mitchel, Portia Boorof. Hitchcockian comedy/thriller