Playwright's Biography

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After graduating with a degree in Film and TV from the University of Westminster in London, Simon was a producer at the BBC and BBC World Service Television, then made feature documentaries for Channel 4, The World Bank, and Friends of the Earth. In the United States, he produced the acclaimed mockumentary feature film Man of the Year and produced multiple shows for ABC, PBS, Discovery, Oxygen, Bravo, Channel 4 (UK), and Fox. He has written four award-winning full-length plays: Judgment of the Eye (The Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Award, Broadway Bound Festival Winner, Sultan Padamsee Playwright Award Winner, Pharmacy Theatre New Writers Winner, Wishbone Theater Winner, Paragon Press Winner, Broad Horizons New Voices Finalist, Julie Harris Playwright Award), The Enemy of the State (Coverfly World Series Contest Winner, The Writer Speaks Winner, Lighthouse Writers Winner, New Works of Merit Finalist, Sultan Padamsee Finalist), Marlowe Part One, (WriteMovies Play Writing Winner, Innovasian Writing Initiative Grand Prize, The Red List #1 Historical Stage Play, Dramatists Guild End of Play Readings, New Works of Merit Honorable Mention, American Community Theater New Play Finalist), and Marlowe Part Two (WriteMovies Play Writing Winner, Innovasian Writing Initiative Winner, Screencraft Stage Play Finalist). He is writing a play about Edwin Hubble and has written six award-winning screenplays.