Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright. His play A Good Night Out in the Valleys launched the new National Theatre Wales in March 2010 and he has worked with theatre companies throughout the United Kingdom.
His most recent work, Manga Sister, a contemporary dance opera, was staged at The Yard, London. The Journey, an opera for the Welsh National Opera, was commissioned by the company’s MAX department and staged in June, 2010.
BBC Radio 3 broadcast his play, The Gold Farmer as part of The Wire season in February 2010 and in September, 2011, BBC Radio 4 broadcast The Lighthouse. Harris was commissioned by Paines Plough as part of their Come To Where I’m From tour (summer 2010).
His debut stage play, Orange, was commissioned and produced by Sgript Cymru and he has worked with companies including Pentabus, Hijinx Theatre, Sherman Cymru, Paines Plough, and The Operating Theatre Company.
A former journalist who was educated at Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive School, Harris has worked with the Welsh National Opera since 2008 on a range of projects and has also worked with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain as a writing workshop leader and with prisoners at HMP Cardiff on a radio play entitled I Forgot To Tell You, a platinum Koestler award winner.