About

Cliff Gillies is an actor, playwright, screenwriter, director and filmmaker. Born in Southport, near Liverpool, he is the is co-founder and director of the award winning ‘Too Friendly Theatre Company’. He has directed and acted in many, many stage productions including ‘Blood Brothers’, ‘Lucky Sods’, ‘When We Are Married’. ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’.

He formed the film company ‘ISOMER’ in 2005 and the film production company ‘Goodbye Cruel World’ shortly after. Their films include ‘Cheater’ and ‘Inbox’. His own screenplays include ‘Forty’, ‘ The Hardest Word’ and ‘Case 1164’.

Cliff won the ‘Best Actor In A Drama’ honor in the “National Operatic and Dramatic Association Awards” for his portrayal of Eddie Noakes, a psychopathic killer, in John Ellis’s ‘The Countdown’. This year is once again nominated for ‘Best Actor In A Drama’ for his role of ‘Jean Valjean’ in Les Miserables as well as receiving nominations for Best Play and Best Staging for the same production.

He is chairman of a writers training and support organization, WLP, which encourages authors to write screenplays, plays for radio and especially theatre scripts and works to help them get their work produced.

His plays include the multi award winning ‘Saving Grace’ along with ‘Wishes’, ‘The Crack Of Dawn’ and ‘First Sight’.

In 2006 Preston FM commissioned Cliff to write several plays for radio including ‘The Princess And The Writer’ and ‘Waiting For Sebastian’ and ‘The Crack Of Dawn’

You can contact the author via www.toofriendlytheatre.com