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DAVID GREIG  (1969 - )

Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  represented by Mel Kenyon


David Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969. He spent much of his childhood in Jos, Nigeria during the 1970's where his father worked in the construction industry. In 1980 his family returned to live in Edinburgh where he went to school. His first involvement with theatre was with Edinburgh Youth Theatre where he acted in a number of shows. In 1987 he went to Bristol University to study English and Drama. He graduated from Bristol University in 1990 and began to work with Graham Eatough and Nick Powell as Suspect Culture on the Edinburgh Fringe. Over two years he wrote and directed five shows and was twice nominated for The Guardian Student Drama award and won a Scotsman Fringe First for Stalinland. In 1993 he moved to Glasgow where Stalinland was produced by the Citizen's Theatre and he received my first professional commissions from The Traverse Theatre and The Royal Court. Since then he has written many plays, most of which have premiered in Scotland. From 2005 to 2007 he was the first Dramaturg of The National Theatre of Scotland. Since his first main stage production 'Europe,' at The Traverse in 1996, his work has been produced extensively abroad. His plays have been translated and produced in most of the countries of Europe, The USA and Canada, Brazil, Australia, Japan and Korea. He continued my association with Suspect Culture through the 1990's and into the 2000's. With Graham Eatough, Nick Powell and Ian Scott he worked to develop a theatre process in which writing and narrative was part of but did not overwhelm the other aspects of production. Suspect Culture became a professional company based in Glasgow in 1995 with their first production 'One Way Street' at The Traverse. The company received a core funding in 1996 and thereafter they developed and produced new work to great acclaim in Scotland and Europe. Suspect Culture lost their funding in 2008 and are now dormant as a theatre company. Graham, Nick, Ian and David all continue to collaborate with each other, however, in work for other companies or in other contexts. David has worked extensively as a workshop leader on projects to teach or develop playwriting. He has a particular relationship with writers in the middle east. He has worked extensively with playwrights in Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia and Morocco. In Damascus a group of writers with whom he worked went on to found 'The Street'  a group dedicated to producing and developing new work in Syria. In 2010 they produced a book 'Stories of Spirit and Cement.' For which David wrote the introduction. He also worked with April De angelis on a major two year collaboration between the Royal Court Theatre and The British Council. The plays produced in that project were published in English and in arabic and have been given performed readings New York, London, Beirut and Cairo. From 2006 David has been on the board of The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. He lives in Fife with his partner, Lucie and two children, annie and Rory.

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8000M         Airport         American Pilot, The         Architect, The         Bacchae         Battle Of Will         Being Norwegian         Brewers Fayre         Caledonia Dreaming         Caligula         Candide 2000         Casanova         Cosmonaut's Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union, The         Creditors         Dalgety         Damascus         Danny 306 + Me (4 Ever)         Demons         Dr Korczak's Example         Dunsinane         Europe         Events, The         Found At Sea         Fragile         Futurology - A Global Revue         Glasgow Girls         Gobbo         Gordon Brown: A Life In Theatre         Greeks, The         Herges Adventures Of Tintin         King Ubu         Kyoto         Letter Of Last Resort, The         Local         Maggie And The Cat, The         Mainstream         Meeting, The         Midsummer         Miniskirts Of Kabul         Moment When, The         Monster In The Hall, The         Naked Rambler, The         Not About Pomegranites         Oedipus The Visionary         One Day in Spring         One Way Street         Outlying Islands         Outside Now         Peter Pan         Petra         Pyrenees         Ramallah         San Diego         Savage Reminiscence         Speculator, The         Stalinland         Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart, The         Stronger, The         Suspect Culture         Timeless         Ubu The King         Victoria         Welcome To The Hotel Caledonia         Whatever Gets You Through The Night         When The Bulbul Stopped Singing         Yellow Moon (The Ballad Of Leila And Lee)