Melville Lovatt

Playwright, author and director

Melville Lovatt is an award-winning Playwright, Monologue Writer and Performance Poet.

His work has been widely performed in smaller theatres throughout London. A number of his plays have won playwriting awards: The Powers That Be won The Sussex Playwrights Club 1st Prize for best full-length play. It has recently been made into a Podcast by American Theatre Company, Dean Productions.

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Small Mercies, a full-length play, won a Jack Langford Memorial Award and a Derek Lomas Memorial Award.

Two of his one-act plays, The Grave and The Kiss were short-listed

for the Diane Raffle Award. 

In 2018, two monologues from his 16 Monologue Collection, Standing Alone, won The National Operatic & Dramatic Association London Region Performance Showcase Award.

He is a six-time winner of The Harrow Times Poetry Competition and has two published Poetry Collections: Dancing for England, 2022 (74 poems) and Reasons to be Cheerful, 2025 (56 Poems). He is currently working on a third Poetry Collection.

In total, there are seventeen publications of Melville Lovatt’s works.

He lives in Hatch End, Northwest London.

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