Moira Buffini

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Moira Buffini (1965 - ) is an English dramatist, director and actor.

Buffini was born in Cheshire in 1965 and trained as an actor at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. For Jordan, co-written with Anna Reynolds in 1992, she won a Time Out Award for her performance and Writers' Guild Award for Best Fringe play. Her 1999 play Silence earned Buffini the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for best English-language play by a woman. She has also written screenplays for Carlton Television's City Lights series and BBC Wales. She did a writers’ attachment at the Royal National Theatre Studio in 1996.

Buffini is said to advocate big, imaginative plays rather than naturalistic soap opera dramas, and is a founder member of the Monsterists, a group of playwrights who promote new writing of large scale work in the British theatre.

[edit] Bibliography

• Jordan (1992)
• Gabriel (1997)
• Blavatsky's Tower (1998)
• Silence (1999)
• The Games Room
• Loveplay (2001)
• Dinner (2002)
• Dying For It (2007) a free adaptation of Nikolai Erdman's 'The Suicide

• Marianne Dreams (2007)
• A Vampire Story (2008)

[edit] External links

• "Moira Buffini" entry by Aleks Sierz in his In-yer-face theatre website. Accessed June 8, 2008.
• "Monsterists" entry by Aleks Sierz in his In-yer-face theatre website. Accessed June 8, 2008.