Writer

Gill writes a regular column twice a week for Hull Daily Mail and teaches film and TV at the Lincolnshire and Humberside University. She also founded an all male writing group ‘The Hull Blokes’

Gill was Writer in Residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse for 2002

Gill was the Anthony Minghella Writer in Residence at Hull University 1999-2000

‘CHRISTINE’ Commissioned by UK Productions for Paul Nicholas. A West End play about Christine Keeler.

KNOCKING ON THE HULL (2003/4) RADIO FOUR DRAMA
PLAY FOR TODAY – (Commission included a trip to Russia to meet with the widows and Mothers of the men who went down on the Kursk Submarine disaster in 2000. Producer Jeremy Mortimer. (to be broadcast August 2004)

BABY BIRD (2003 ) 60 min RADIO 3 DRAMA produced and directed By Kate Rowland.

HEART ATTACK (2001) Two x 60 min Friday play (in two parts. Heart and Attack) for BBC Radio 4 Produced and directed by Kate Rowland and Meline Harris.

FOOTIE WIVES (2001) A half hour pilot sit com script for the BBC

SOMETHING BLUE (2001). Stage play commission for the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.

CRUSH (2001). Play for Radio 3 ‘Wire’ series. Winner of Silver at the Sony Radio Award 2001. Produced and directed by Kate Rowland.

"A fine and sensitive portrayal of teenage pregnancy. Heart-poundingly performed by Lucy Beaumont."

CRAZY BIG FISH (2000). 6 x 30 minutes BBC Radio 4 Commission for broadcast in late 2000. Directed By Polly Thomas. Adapted for television for Bob Bierman and Sentinel Films

CHILD OF OUR TIME – ‘Sia Mia’s story’ (2000). Radio play for Radio 4 (Commission included research with refugees in Africa) With Kate Rowland.

MAYA (2000). Radio play for Radio 4 starring Fiona Shaw

SOUTH RIDING (1999). (Adapted from Winifred Holtby’s novel) 15 x 15 minute Radio 4 commission, broadcast May 1999 starring Sarah Lancaster

JACK IN THE BOX (1999). 60 minute pilot commission for Carlton Television.

JUMP TO COW HEAVEN (1998). Stage play premiering at Edinburgh Festival and transferring to Riverside Studios. Published By Warner Chappell

Winner of the 1997 ‘First of Fringe Firsts’ for best new play at the festival.

2000 – 01 being developed as a film by Midhouse/Gary Kemp

"A cracker of a play” The Sunday Telegraph

"Adams neatly mixes fright and comedy” The Times

"This is a great new play that will send shivers down your spine” The Evening News

THE GREY MAN (1997). 60 minute radio play commissioned for BBC Radio 4. Broadcast in September ’97 starring James Bolam.

LAST BUS HOME (1996/97). 90-minute radio commission for BBC, broadcast July ’97. Producer/director Kate Rowland.

THE SHY GAS MAN (1996/7) Stage play commissioned by The National Theatre Studio revised to go into production in 2004.

KELLY’S EYE (1996). For BBC Radio 4 Drama. Starring Roy Baraclough

LONELY HEARTS (1995). A Hull Truck commission premiering at Hull Truck’s Spring Street Theatre and moving to the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh for the duration of the festival. Published by Warner Chappell.

‘proves as astute at distinguishing between sexual maturity and sexual swagger as anything since Ann Jellico’s The Knack…’ Benedict Nightingale, The Times.

OFF OUT (1994). Commissioned by Hull Truck, winning a Fringe First at the ’94 Edinburgh Festival. Published by Warner Chappell.

‘Gill Adams goes from strength to strength … OFF OUT is her most powerful piece of writing yet and has an intensity of emotion which grips by the throat…’ Yorkshire Post.

‘Patrols the jagged edges of society in a way that is frightening, inspiring and not to be missed…’ The Scotsman.

FISH ‘N' LEATHER (1992/95). A play premiered in 1992, moving to Hull’s Spring Street Theatre and revived three years later in Hull and also at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh.

‘Hers is a kindly, humorous talent…’ The Times

YOUTH THEATRE

SHOUT! Hull Truck Youth Theatre - a stage play for 40 kids aged 11 – 16

PAPER GIRL Big Fish Productions. A hard-hitting stage play for 22 young people aged 13 – 17 Performed in schools throughout Hull.

TV credits include - The Bill, Casualty, Band of Gold, Emmerdale.

In development:

Gill has recently finished adapting her play Jump to Cow Heaven into a feature film with Gary Kemp, called Wanted.

GILL is presently working on a commission by UK Productions and Paul Nicholas to adapt Christine Keelers book ‘The Truth At Last’ for the West End Stage

Gill has won The Prex Acqueo For Both Crush and Child of the Boarder. Crush also won a Sony Silver award and the mental health and Media award