Sam Boardman-Jacobs

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Sam Boardman-Jacobs (born 1949) is a Welsh playwright, director and production designer.

Boardman-Jacobs is a Reader in Theatre & Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan. His research interests include Holocaust Drama, Yiddish Theatre, Gay and Lesbian Theatre, Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, and the Spanish Civil War.^[1] These interests are reflected in his plays.

He won acclaim^[2] for his work on Holocaust and Yiddish drama with the Manchester Youth Theatre and received a grant from the European Association of Jewish Culture in 2002 for his play Trying To Be, an exploration of Jewish identity set in contemporary Britain.^[3]

In Play Federico For Me the ghost of Federico Garcia Lorca, killed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, meets Eva Peron. His translation and adaptation of Lorca's El público was produced by the Found Reality Theatre Company in 2005. His 2007 radio play, The Sixth Column Has Better Legs, describes the experiences of four chorus girls in Madrid while the city is under siege.

Passion For The Impossible tells the story of Violette Leduc and Jean Genet in wartime Paris.

In 2003 he taught for the Lemonia Disabled Writers' Residential Course, a project organised by Graeae Theatre Company, Writernet and Ty Newydd.^[4] The production of his 2004 play, Embracing Barbarians, based on the political and sexual fantasies of dying Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, attempted to make to make the piece accessible to both deaf and hearing performers and audiences, while casting a deaf performer in the role of a hearing character.^[5]

He was also a scriptwriter for 12 years on BBC Radio 4's The Archers and one of the original writers for Channel 4's "Brookside". He translates from Spanish to English.

[edit] Stage Plays

Someone Else’s Rainbow, 1979
Setting Out For Ithaca 1980
Farblas! 1996
Play Federico For Me, 1998
Passion for the Impossible, 1999
Asylum, 2001
Trying To Be, 2002
Why Is This Night?, 2003
Embracing Barbarians, 2004
The Public 2005 (English Translation from Lorca's El Publico)
Red Hot & Blue 2007

[edit] Radio plays

Her Name Was Milena 1982
Last Friday in Jerusalem 1984
Fanny Rosen's Bad Debt 1985
After Every Dream 1988
Facing the Sun 1986
After Every Dream 1988
Doesn't Everyone Live in a Ballroom? 1991
Hangover Square (Dramatised from Patrick Hamilton's Novel) 1994
The Abduction of Esther Lyons, 1999
One Pair Of Hands, (5 Part Series) 2001 (adaptation of the novel by Monica Dickens)
The Sixth Column Has Better Legs,(5 Part Series) 2007