James Fritz is a British playwright [1] known for Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, Parliament Square and The Flea. He has been described as 'one of the UK's most interesting playwrights'[2] and 'one of the most boundary-pushing playwrights working today'[3]
Fritz studied writing at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama[4].In 2014 he wrote Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, which premiered at The Hampstead Theatre before transferring to Trafalgar Studios. His 2015 play Ross & Rachel debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before transferring to 59E59 Theaters in New York.[5] The same year Parliament Square won Fritz a Bruntwood Prize and went on to open at Royal Exchange, Manchester in 2017.[6] In 2023 his play The Flea about The Cleveland Street Scandal premiered at The Yard Theatre.
Fritz has also worked extensively in audio drama and has won Gold at the Audio and Radio Industry Awards on two separate occasions. [7][8]