Writer Craig Warner

Craig Warner (born 25 April 1964) is a multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter who lives and works in Suffolk, England.[1]

His play Strangers on a Train, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, ran in London's West End in 2013–14, and starred Jack Huston, Laurence Fox, Miranda Raison, Imogen Stubbs, Christian McKay, and MyAnna Buring. It was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and produced by Barbara Broccoli.[2][3]

He wrote The Queen's Sister for Channel 4, which was nominated for several BAFTA awards (including Best Single Drama), Maxwell for BBC2, which garnered a Broadcasting Press Guild Award nomination for Best Single Drama and won David Suchet an International Emmy for Best Actor, and The Last Days of Lehman Brothers,[4] for which Warner was longlisted for a BAFTA Craft Award for Best Writer, and which won him the award for Best Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards in 2010. He wrote the mini-series Julius Caesar for Warner Bros., which gained Warner a Writers Guild Award nomination for Best Original Long-Form Drama, and he performed an extensive uncredited rewrite on The Mists of Avalon, also for Warner Bros., which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award and nine Emmys, including Best Mini-series. Warner wrote the screenplay for Codebreaker, a film about Alan Turing.

Craig Warner started out writing for the theatre and for radio. His first radio play for BBC Radio 4, Great Men of Music, was performed by Philip Davis and was included in Radio 4's first Young Playwrights Festival. His second play By Where the Old Shed Used to Be, with Miranda Richardson, won the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Plays of the Year, and it was included in the volume of winners for 1989, published by Methuen. His play Figure With Meat also won a Giles Cooper Award and was published in the Methuen volume of 1991. Craig Warner is the award's youngest ever winner, having received it for the first time when he was 24. He is also a composer and has written music and songs for a number of his works, including a full-length musical for BBC Radio 3 about the legend of Cassandra, called Agonies Awakening. He runs the audio production company 25th Image, for which he produces and directs the comedy-drama Night Games, also playing a leading role alongside Michael Maloney.

Warner received a BA in philosophy from King's College London and an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. He was born in Los Angeles.

Awards

  • 2012: Winner – Best Production, EuroPAWS Science TV Audience Award, Codebreaker [5]
  • 2010: Winner – Best Writer, Seoul International Drama Awards, The Last Days of Lehman Brothers [6]
  • 2008: Nominated – Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Best Single Drama, Maxwell
  • 2006: Nominated – BAFTA TV Award, Best Single Drama, The Queen's Sister [7]
  • 2004: Nominated – Writers Guild of America, WGA Award (TV), Best Original Long-Form Drama, Julius Caesar
  • 1998: Nominated – Verity Bargate Award, Soho Theatre, Dark Leaves
  • 1997: Nominated – Vivian Ellis Prize, Kings Head Theatre, Agonies Awakening
  • 1992: Nominated – European Broadcast Union Award, High Flyer
  • 1991: Winner – BBC/Methuen Giles Cooper Awards, Best Radio Plays of the Year, Figure With Meat
  • 1989: Winner – BBC/Methuen Giles Cooper Awards, Best Radio Plays of the Year, By Where the Old Shed Used to Be

Television and Film

Theatre

Audio Drama

Translations

  • 1990: The Devil by Maupassant, BBC Radio 4 – with Ian Holm
  • 1989: The Baptism by Maupassant, BBC Radio 3 – with Anton Lesser

References

  1. ↑ "From Script to Prose – A Profile of Craig Warner".
  2. ↑ "Strangers on a Train, Gielgud Theatre, review".
  3. ↑ "Strangers on a Train stage production thrills critics". BBC News. 20 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Lehman Brothers: The movie".
  5. ↑ "Turing Film Wins Award in Europe".
  6. ↑ "2010 Seoul International Drama Awards » Dramabeans Korean drama recaps". 10 September 2010.
  7. ↑ "Television in 2006 | BAFTA Awards".
  8. ↑ "New Play About Figaro Playwright Beaumarchais Highlight of Alabama Shakes' 2003-04 Season". 28 July 2003.
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