Ridley is also a poet, photographer, and performance artist and has written drama for radio. Ridley has also written songs for composer Anna Meredith, particularly operatic work. He and Bicât have also formed a music group called Dreamskin Cradle with singer Mary Leay. Īs a songwriter he has created songs for his cinematic and theatrical works, frequently collaborating with composer Nick Bicât. As a writer for the stage he is also recognised for creating an ongoing series of plays for young people ( The Storyteller Sequence) and has written theatrical works for children and family audiences. A great number of his plays for adults have been perceived as controversial, being met with both condemnation and high acclaim upon their initial reception. Ridley's debut play, The Pitchfork Disney (1991), is considered by many to be a seminal work that influenced the development of this form of theatre, with one critic even dubbing it ' the key play' of the 1990s. Īs a playwright he has been described as 'a pioneer of In-yer-face theatre', which is a style and sensibility of drama that characterised many new plays that were performed in Britain during the 1990s. As a filmmaker in his own right he is recognised for creating a loose trilogy of horror films: The Reflecting Skin (1990), The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) and Heartless (2009) for which he has acquired a cult following. In the field of cinema he is perhaps best known for his award-winning screenplay for the 1990 film, The Krays (1990), a biopic about the Kray twins which was directed by Peter Medak.

Īs a novelist he has created fiction for both children and adults and has had particular success and recognition as a children's author. Philip Ridley (born 1957) is an English storyteller working in a wide range of artistic media.Īs a visual artist he has been cited as a contemporary of the ' Young British Artists', and had his artwork exhibited internationally.

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