Marcy Kahan
Marcy Kahan (born 4 July) is a British playwright and radio dramatist, who is half-Canadian and half-American.[1][2] She is a prolific author of urbane comedies for the BBC. She was born in Montreal, educated at Oxford University and trained in theatre in Paris with the Lecoq School teachers, Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux.
- Theatre Work
- Screenplay
- Antonia and Jane, BBC/Miramax, Gold Plaque Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1991 Chicago Film Festival
- Radio Plays
- The Porlock Poisoner, BBC World Service, 13 Aug 2011[3]
- Incredibly Guilty, BBC Radio 4, 14 Jan 2011[4]
- Big In Samoa, BBC Radio 4, 1 Jan 2010[5]
- Life Complicated; Status Pending, BBC Radio 4, 7 Oct 2009[6]
- From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe, BBC Radio 4, 4 May 2008[7]
- Nostrovia Fitzrovia: The Black Cat Murder Mystery, BBC World Service, 3 May 2008[8]
- The Playwright & The Grammarian, BBC Radio 4, 2 May 2008[9]
- Marvellous!, BBC World Service, 2007
- The Noël Coward Quintet : Five detective comedies/spy thrillers featuring the British playwright Noël Coward: Design for Murder, 2000; Blithe Spy, 2002; A Bullet at Balmain's, 2003; Death at the Desert Inn, 2004; Our Man in Jamaica, 2007, BBC Radio 4
- 20 Cigarettes, BBC Radio 4, 2006[10]
- Object of Insane Desire, BBC World Service, 2006
- Drop Dead Gorgeous, BBC World Service, Bronze Medal for Best Play, 2004 New York Radio Festival
- The Non-Entity, BBC Radio 4, 2003
- Killing Katerina, BBC World Service, 2001
- The Uncertainty Principle, BBC World Service, 2001 Kurd Lasswitz Science Fiction Prize
- The DJ Who Used To Be A Nun's Tale, BBC Radio 4, 2000
- Victorville, BBC Radio 4, 1998
- Salzburg in London, BBC World Service, 1997
- Everybody Comes to Schicklgruber's, BBC Radio 4, 1997 Silver Sony Award
- Purgatory, BBC Radio 3, 1991
- The Transmogrification of Herbert Mellish, BBC Radio 4 1987
- Viva, BBC Radio 4, 1986
- One Last Final Fling, BBC Radio 4, 1985
- The Contemplative Life, BBC Radio 3, 1985
- Radio Dramatisations
- Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse, BBC Radio 4, 2008[11]
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, CBC/BBC co-production, 2002
- The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart and George S Kaufman, BBC Radio 4, 25 December 2000
- War & Peace (co-author: Mike Walker). Talkie Award for Best Drama, 1998
- The Wizard of Oz , BBC Radio 4
- The Railway Children, BBC Radio 4
- Anne of Green Gables, BBC Radio 4
- Little Women & Good Wives, BBC Radio 4, 1992–3
- Press
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