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AWARDS: WINNER ‘Best Narrative’ (My Name Is Swan) Los Angeles International Poetry Film Festival (2023) WINNER ‘Silver Wyvern’, Poetry on The Lake (2023) WINNER ‘Best Innovative Play’ (Body 115) London Pub Theatre Awards (2023) SELECTED READINGS: The ICA, London | The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York | Keats-Shelley House, Rome | The British Institute, Florence | Teatro Filodrammatici, Milan | Teatrino Di Palazzo Grassi, Venice | Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. BROADCASTS: Channel 4, BBC Radio, ITV. COMMISSIONS: Kent Medway Museums | Heritage Lab | The Deutscher Chor London. GUEST LECTURER: Università degli Studi di Milano | UCL. FILM: My Name Is Swan, premiered at the Curzon, Aldgate, London [with support from the Arts Council England & the East End Film Festival] FEATURED ARTIST: Poetry on The Lake, Italy [with Carol Ann Duffy] | Stoke Newington Literary Festival [with Irvine Welsh] | Turner Contemporary, Margate | Bowery Poetry Club, New York.
JAN NOBLE | CV
RESIDENCY: Keats-Shelley House, Rome 2026
NATIONAL THEATRE TOUR: (Body 115) 2025
GUEST SPEAKER: British Institute, Florence 2024
FEATURED ARTIST: Keats-Shelley House, Rome 2024
AWARD: Silver Wyvern, Poetry on the Lake 2023
AWARD: ‘Best Narrative’ (My Name Is Swan) Winner, Los Angeles International Poetry Film Festival 2023
AWARD: ‘Best Innovative Play’ (Body 115) Winner, London Pub Theatres 2023
GUEST SPEAKER: UCL 2022
PRINCIPLE READER: Speaking Dante, with Ralph Fiennes 2021
COMMISSION: Kent Medway Museums 2021
COMMISSION: Heritage Lab 2020
COMMISSION: Deutscher Chor 2020
FEATURED ARTIST: Poetry on The Lake, Italy 2020
FEATURED ARTIST: Bowery Poetry Club, New York 2019
FEATURED ARTIST: Teatro Filodrammatici, Milano 2019
GUEST SPEAKER & LECTURER: Università degli Studi di Milano 2018
FILM PREMIERE: Curzon Cinema, East End Film Festival, London 2017
FEATURED ARTIST: Poetry on The Lake, with Carol Ann Duffy 2017
FEATURED ARTIST: BBC Radio 2016
RESIDENCY: Myriam Blundell Projects, France 2015
RESIDENCY: East End Film Festival, London 2015
FEATURED ARTIST: Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2013
CREATIVE WRITING FACILITATOR: WEA 2010
CREATIVE WRITING TUTOR: Union Chapel, London 2005 – 2010
POETRY & CREATIVE WRITING FACILITATOR: Core Arts Hackney 2000 – 2010
PRESS / AWARDS
WINNER: My Name Is Swan ‘Best Narrative’, Los Angeles International Poetry Film Festival, 2023 WINNER: Body 115 ‘Best Innovative Play’, London Pub Theatre Awards, 2023 WINNER: ‘Silver Wyvern’, Poetry on the Lake with Carol Ann Duffy and Imtiaz Dharker, 2023
‘Fantastic!’ BBC
‘Intense and chilling’ THE GUARDIAN
‘Sophisticated urban narratives’ NME
‘Poetry of strength and impact’ LA STAMPA (Italy)
‘Fucking awesome’ ★★★★★ METAL HAMMER
ABOUT BODY 115
‘A poetic masterpiece’ ★★★★★ NORTH WEST END
‘Jan Noble has gilded tonsils’ ★★★★ LONDON PUB THEATRES MAGAZINE
‘One hour of literary and poetic brilliance.’
‘Not to be missed.’ ★★★★ A YOUNG(ISH) PERSPECTIVE
‘A triumph in poetic theatre performance.
Utterly captivating’ ★★★★ THE REVIEWS HUB
‘Jan’s performance is moving and mesmerising. He paints an animated tapestry of contemporary life that taps into the fragmented roots of our collective past to evoke our simultaneously objective yet illusionary present. It projects us toward a future that is dream and desire, ungraspable yet apparently concrete, underpinned by a yearning to escape the only partly understood bondsthat still tether us to our history and define our personality and our contemporary dilemma.’ DANIEL RICHARDS, Unimi
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