ABSTRACT

Philip Osment grew up in Devon, England, and read Modern Languages at Keble College, Oxford (1971–1974). After spending time in Berlin, he joined Gay Sweatshop in London in the late 1970s. He became one of the artistic directors of the company before leaving in the late 1980s. This Island’s Mine was first performed as a reading which was part of the Gay Sweatshop Times Twelve Festival in 1987 and opened as a Gay Sweatshop production in 1988. Osment has since written plays inspired by his Devon childhood for the Cambridge Theatre Company, now Method & Madness.