Nick Leather's debut stageplay All The Ordinary Angels was produced on the main stage of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre and won the Pearson Award for Best New Play, whilst Billy Wonderful was produced at the Liverpool Everyman and his popular children's drama Rocket's Island is broadcast on CBBC. His other television work includes Justice (BBC1), Jimmy McGovern's Moving On (BBC1), Stepping Up (CBBC/BBC1) and Secrets and Words (BBC1). In 2012, he won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Episode Of A Continuing Drama for his work on Hollyoaks. He created the Radio 4 series Cottonopolis, and his other radio work includes The Domino Man of Lancashire and Wednesdays with Strangers (both Radio 4), and A Northern Elegy (Radio 3). He has previously been Playwright-in-Residence at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Screenwriter-in-Residence at Lime Pictures, and Writer-on-Attachment at the Royal National Theatre, as well as developing a number of original projects for BBC Television, Lime Pictures, LA Productions and Creative England. 1024x768

A programme text edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, on 12 March 2009.

Billy is in the squad and it's wonderful. He's down the wing and he's flying. He doesn't believe in much, but he believes in this ... in football. As the Blues and the Reds come out to play, it's D-Day for Billy ... Derby Day.

But in the scramble for success, can Billy keep his head or will he fall foul of fame and fortune?

Nick Leather, one of the North West's most prominent young playwrights, brings us a fast-paced coming of age story pulsing with all the excitement and physicality of Match Day.