Sometimes I write plays, and sometimes I write scripts for other things, like short films, which are included in the list below too. But I haven’t included song cycles, for example most of the shows I’ve made for Ensonglopedia, which can be found on the singer-songwriter page; if it’s got characters and a story, and it’s happened since I graduated from drama school in 2005, it’s in, otherwise it ain’t.
| WHAT SORT OF THING | WHAT THING | WHO DIRECTED IT / FOR WHICH COMPANY | WHEN & WHERE IT HAPPENED | PROOF IT HAPPENED |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Educational musical comedy | Forces at Play | I did / Ensonglopedia, commissioned by Brooklands Museum, Weybridge | 2025: Brooklands Museum, Weybridge | |
| Educational musical comedy | Light Fantastic! | Kat Joyce / Ensonglopedia (co-written with Laura Mugridge) | Brighton Fringe in May 2025; international tour lined up | |
| Educational musical comedy | The Puddle at the End of the World | I did / Ensonglopedia | Work-in-progress version created Sept 2022, UK tour in spring/summer 2023 | |
| Online webisode series | Ensonglopedia of the Human | I did / Ensonglopedia | 2021, online | |
| Theatre-in-education | Bex and Rex in the Beastly Brecks | Daniel Goldman / Tangram Theatre | 2016: Tour of festivals and schools in the Brecks, East Anglia | |
| Musical comedy | The Element in the Room: a Radioactive Musical Comedy about the Death and Life of Marie Curie | Daniel Goldman / Tangram Theatre (music co-written with Jo Eagle) | 2015-present – UK and Australia tour | |
| Musical comedy | Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking / Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking (Junior Edition) | Daniel Goldman / Tangram Theatre (music co-written with Jo Eagle) | 2013-present – UK, Australia and Malta tour, including Royal Albert Hall | |
| Theatre | The Origin of Species… (full title 34 words) | Daniel Goldman / Tangram Theatre | 2008-present – 200+ performances: Ed & B’ton Fringe, UK tour, Australia, Norway, Croatia, Sweden, Natural History Museum, Royal Albert Hall… | |
| Epic tragi-comedy | Pythagoras | I did / University of Cumbria | 2013 – production in Carlisle with 21 second year performing arts students | |
| Musical comedy | Ragnarok: The Weird of the Gods | Kind of self-directed, with lots of help / Theatre of the Preposterous | 2012: Brighton Fringe, Ipswich Pulse, Croatia |
The list also doesn’t include things on which I’ve been part of a larger writing or devising team, which includes:
- loads of shows (about eight, I won’t list them) for Tangled Feet
- Cloning Frankenstein for Teater EnKor
- Crunch! A Show About Apples for Tangram Theatre Company
- Spring Awakening at Cumbria University
All of these are listed on the Actor page, except the last one, which I directed.
Who else is John Hinton?
ALBERT EINSTEIN: RELATIVITIVELY SPEAKING
(JUNIOR EDITION)
Winner of Best Children’s Show at the 2014 Brighton Fringe
ALBERT EINSTEIN: RELATIVITIVELY SPEAKING
(JUNIOR EDITION)
Off-West-End Award for ‘Best show for young people aged 8+’, 2015
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES…
Sell-out show, Edinburgh Fringe 2009
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES…
Nominated for ‘Best Theatre Show’, Adelaide Fringe 2012
JOHN HINTON
Nominated for ‘Best Theatre Performance’, Adelaide Fringe 2012
THE SCIENTRILOGY
(trilogy of shows about Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Marie Curie)
Winner of ThreeWeeks Editor’s Award, Edinburgh Fringe 2015
THE ELEMENT IN THE ROOM
Winner of weekly Critics’ Circle Award, Adelaide Fringe 2016
THE SCIENTRILOGY
(trilogy of shows about Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Marie Curie)
Winner of weekly Best Theatre Award, Adelaide Fringe 2018
ENSONGLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE
Nominated for Primary Times Children’s Choice Award,, Brighton Fringe 2017
ENSONGLOPEDIA OF BRITISH HISTORY
Nominated for Bobby Award, Brighton Fringe 2019
JOHN HINTON
Winner of British Ecological Society Science Slam, 2018
John Hinton is Actor • Director • Playwright • Singer-songwriter • Science communicator • Workshop leader