Graham Reid (writer)

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Graham Reid (born 1945) is a teacher and playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Born into a working class family, Reid married young, but returned to education and graduated from Queen's University in 1976. He became a teacher at Gransha Boys' High School in Bangor, County Down but left in 1980 to concentrate on his writing career.

Characters in his work The Hidden Curriculum were based on pupils and teachers from the school he taught at. He went on to write a trio of BBC plays for the Play for Today series. These include Too Late to Talk to Billy in 1982, A Matter of Choice for Billy in 1983 and A Coming to Terms for Billy in 1984. They were colloquially known as The Billy Plays. The plays starred a young Kenneth Branagh, who had previously worked in his futuristic play Easter 2016, which was screened as part of the BBC's Play for Tomorrow series.