James Martin Charlton is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on July 29, 1966 in United Kingdom.
His play Fat Souls won the 1992 International Playwriting Festival at Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, where it premièred in 1993. Fat Souls and the plays which followed it – Groping in the Dark and Coming Up – use verse dialogue, soliloquies and emblematic characterisation all strapped to contemporary stories. The spiritual/anarchist strain in his writing continued in Divine Vision, a biographical play about the relationship between William Blake and his patron, William Hayley, and a stage adaptation of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.
Since 1996, Charlton has been Artistic Director of Friendly Fire Productions. Friendly Fire’s productions include Gob by Jim Kenworth starring ex-Take That star Jason Orange at The King’s Head Theatre in 1999, which Charlton directed. He has also directed shows with casts of prisoners at HMP Maidstone, including The Who’s Tommy.
