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Playwrights' Studio
Mentor
Kieran Hurley
Kieran is a writer,
performer, and theatre maker based in Glasgow. This basically means
that sometimes he writes stuff that he's in, sometimes he writes
stuff that other people are in too; sometimes he does this on his
own, sometimes he does it in a way that involves other
people.
Past work includes Rantin, a ceilidh-play with music
created for the National Theatre of Scotland and the
Arches; Beats, a monologue performed with a DJ
created with Arches Platform 18 Award; Hitch, an
autobiographical story with a live band; Chalk Farm,
co-written with AJ Taudevin originally for Òran
Mór and subsequently touring internationally in a
production by ThickSkin; and a number of short plays
including Belcoo and Bruises (Royal
Court);
and Close, Amanda, and London
2012: Glasgow (Theatre
Uncut). Beats won Best New Play at the Critics'
Awards For Theatre in Scotland, which Hitch had
been nominated for previously.
Kieran's work is published by Oberon and
can be found here.
Theatre
Mouthpiece
SoHo Theatre - 2019
Traverse Theatre - 2018
Directed by Orla O'Loughlin
Square Go
Reading - 2019
Edinburgh - 2018
Paines Plough Roundabout Theatre, Edinburgh Festival
Co-written with Gary McNair
FRINGE FIRST AWARD WINNER 2018
"funniest show of the festival… Hilarious
and human high-school two-hander that's just brilliant
fun" The Stage *****
Looping: Scotland Overdub August
2018
Scottish Dance Theatre
Scottish Tour
A Sex-Inch Layer of Topsoil and the Fact it
Rains May 2018
Verbatim theatre
Perth Theatre tour
"Fascinating verbatim play" The Stage
"Kieran Hurley's new touring show for Perth Theatre has that
special quality of listening to the voices of a community, and
reflecting it back to itself" **** Scotsman
Heads Up
Show And Tell
UK tour February - March 2018
UK tour February - June 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Festival - 2016
Written and performed by Kieran Hurley
FRINGE FIRST AWARD WINNER 2016
CATS BEST NEW PLAY AWARD WINNER 2017
**** The Guardian, The Independent, The Scotsman, The Sunday
Times
An Injury July 2017
Ovalhouse Theatre
Directed by Alex Swift
Rantin 2014
National Theatre of Scotland
Scottish Tour
**** The Guardian
Grit: The Martyn Bennett Story
Pachamama Productions / Tramway /Mull - June 2014
Written by Kieran Hurley
Directed by Cora Bissett
Rantin
National Theatre of Scotland / The Arches, Scottish tour -
January - March 2014
Written and directed by Kieran Hurley
CHALK FARM
Co-written by AJ Taudevin
International tour 2014 - produced by ThickSkin
Òran Mór 2012
"Brilliant, sharp, poetic, passionate, full of searing insight
into the politics of blame"**** The Scotsman
Beats
Show And Tell
Soho Theatre 2013
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012
Written and performed by Kieran Hurley
CATS BEST NEW PLAY AWARD WINNER 2012
"A tremendous piece of storytelling that takes us back to
1994… One of the best shows of the Edinburgh Festival last
year" The Guardian ****
'An impressive piece of storytelling' The Times
****
Hitch
The Arches, September 2009
Forest Fringe, August 2010, and UK and international tour dates
2010 to 2012
Written by Kieran Hurley
Co-directed by Kieran Hurley, Julia Taudevin, Dick Bonham, Jamie
Fletcher
Short Plays
Belcoo
Royal Court Open Court Season (PIIGS), June 2013
Written by Kieran Hurley
Directed by Richard Twyman
London 2012: Glasgow
Theatre Uncut, Traverse, August 2012
Written by Kieran Hurley
Directed by Emma Callander
Amanda
Theatre Uncut, Traverse, August 2013
Written by Kieran Hurley
Directed by Hannah Price
Close
Theatre Uncut, Traverse, August 2014
Written by Kieran Hurley
Directed by Hannah Price
Film
Beats 2019
Based on Kieran's play of the same name
Co-written and directed by Brian Welsh
Sixteen Films/Wild Bunch/Altitude/BFI/ Creative Scotland.
Exec Producer Steven Soderbergh
Collaborations
The Deficit Show
Òran Mór, November 2013
Written by multiple writers, including Kieran Hurley
Directed by Gary McNair
Demons
Òran Mór, October 2012
Written by multiple writers, including Kieran Hurley
Directed by Catrin Evans
Whatever Gets You Through The Night
The Arches, June 2012
Written by multiple writers, including Kieran Hurley
Directed by Cora Bissett
The Jean Jacques Rousseau Show
Òran Mór, February 2012
Written by multiple writers, including Kieran Hurley
Directed by David MacLennan and Catrin Evans
Awards
Winner: Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, Best New Play for Beats
Winner: Arches Platform 18 New Work Award for Beats
Nominated: Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, Best New Play for Hitch
Nominated: Stage Awards, Best Solo Performance for Beats
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