Marcy Kahan

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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 Somerville College, Oxford and trained in theatre in Paris with the Lecoq School teachers, Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux.

Theatre Work
  • 20 Cigarettes National Youth Theatre, Soho Theatre 2007
  • Stage version of Nora Ephron's When Harry Met Sally ..., Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2005
  • Goldberg Variations, Miranda Theatre, New York, 1999
  • Intimate Memoirs of an Irish Taxidermist, Edinburgh and Donmar Theatre, 1986 Perrier Award for Best Comedy
Screenplay
  • Antonia and Jane, BBC/Miramax, Gold Plaque Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1991 Chicago Film Festival
Radio Plays
  • Mr Bridger's Orphan, BBC Radio 4, 15 Mar 2013[3]
  • The Porlock Poisoner, BBC World Service, 13 Aug 2011[4]
  • Incredibly Guilty, BBC Radio 4, 14 Jan 2011[5]
  • Big In Samoa, BBC Radio 4, 1 Jan 2010[6]
  • Life Complicated; Status Pending, BBC Radio 4, 7 Oct 2009[7]
  • From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe, BBC Radio 4, 4 May 2008[8]
  • Nostrovia Fitzrovia: The Black Cat Murder Mystery, BBC World Service, 3 May 2008[9]
  • The Playwright & The Grammarian, BBC Radio 4, 2 May 2008[10]
  • 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[11]
  • 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[12]
  • 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
  • Bomb Magazine — Michael Frayn by Marcy Kahan (issue 73, fall 2000)

References

  1. ↑ BBC World Service – Meet the Writers
  2. ↑ RADIO / The tides of the Marches: Georgina Brown reports on an adaptation for radio of Louisa May Alcott's classic Good Wives, Georgina Brown, The Independent 10 February 1993
  3. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Mr Bridger's Orphan
  4. ↑ BBC – World Drama – The Porlock Poisoner
  5. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable
  6. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Big In Samoa
  7. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Life Complicated – Status Pending
  8. ↑ BBC – Radio 4 – From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe
  9. ↑ BBC – World Drama – Worldplay – The Black Cat Murder Mystery, Nostrovia Fitzrovia
  10. ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Playwright and the Grammarian
  11. ↑ BBC – Friday Play – 20 Cigarettes
  12. ↑ BBC – Radio 4 – Psmith in the City

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