Neil Duffield has written more than sixty plays and adaptations which have been staged extensively throughout Britain and abroad. Other scripts include The Machine Stops (for York Theatre Royal), A Christmas Carol (Bolton Octagon Theatre); Twice upon a Time (Dundee Rep), Dancing in my Dreams’(Oxfordshire Theatre Company); The Minotaur and Leopard (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Emperor and the Nightingale and The Firebird (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster); The Secret Garden (Polka Theatre for Children) and Talking with Angels (Quicksilver Theatre, London). His play The Lost Warrior (for The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster) won the Arts Council England Children’s Award in 2006 'for work which displays excellence, inspiration and innovation in children’s theatre.’