Peter Moffat is a British playwright and screenwriter. His first play was called Fine and Private Place and was broadcast on BBC Radio in 1997.[1] His best-known plays are Nabokov's Gloves and Iona Rain.[2]
A former barrister, he is the creator of four British television legal dramas: Kavanagh QC, North Square, Criminal Justice and Silk. He also wrote the miniseries Cambridge Spies and the television film Einstein and Eddington, as well as a reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth for the BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told series.[3] Moffat won the Writer's Award from the Broadcasting Press Guild for North Square,[4] and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2004 for writing Hawking, a TV drama about the scientist Stephen Hawking.[5] He was recently awarded two BAFTAs, for Criminal Justice, and another as a writer, a best writer BAFTA craft award. He is married to an author and has two teenage children.