Stephen Laughton is a British

United Kingdom

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 playwright

Playwright

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. He was raised in Stourbridge

Stourbridge

Stourbridge is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands of England. Historically part of Worcestershire, Stourbridge was a centre of glass making, and today includes the suburbs of Amblecote, Lye, Norton, Oldswinford, Pedmore, Wollaston, Wollescote and Wordsley The...

, Worcestershire

Worcestershire

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. He attended the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama, before completing a master's degree at the Central School of Speech and Drama

Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in London in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students...

. Based in London

London

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, he started his career as an associate producer and worked with Rupert Murray

Rupert Murray

Rupert Murray is a film director working in London. Murray began by making television documentaries for Channel Four's Cutting Edge series including Playing For England and Seconds To Impact , and short films Outsiders and This Was My War, co-directed with Beadie Finzi.In 2005 he directed British...

 and Beadi Finzi on the Academy Award shortlisted Unknown White Male

Unknown White Male

Unknown White Male is a 2005 documentary film directed by Rupert Murray, covering the life of his childhood friend Doug Bruce, a British resident of New York who appeared to suffer from sudden amnesia, who woke up on a subway train in Coney Island in 2003, not knowing who or where he was.The film...

. He is currently part of the Royal Court Theatre

Royal Court Theatre

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's Invitational Writer's Group. His first play Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...

 is Staring at Me opens Terra Firma Theatre Company’s 2011-12 Boxcar Reading Series in New York. Terra Firma will be taking the play into full production in 2012. Hightide Theatre are also workshopping a British version of the play as part of their Genesis Lab series.

Stephen co-directed a short-film, Recompense, based on the W. W. Jacobs

W. W. Jacobs

William Wymark Jacobs , was an English author of short stories and novels.-Writings:Jacobs is now remembered for his macabre tale "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Toll House"...

 short story The Monkey's Paw

The Monkey's Paw

"The Monkey's Paw" is a horror short story by author W. W. Jacobs. It was published in England in 1902.The story is based on the famous "setup" in which three wishes are granted. In the story, the paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an...

. The film screened at the BFI

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in February 2011 and is an official selection for the New York Independent Film Festival 2011.

He is represented by Alan Brodie Representation.