CRAIG   WARNER
who adapted

  STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

for the stage


Craig Warner has written extensively for radio, theatre, film and television.   His Radio 3 plays, By Where the Old Shed Used to Be and Figure With Meat won Giles Cooper Awards for Best Radio Plays of the Year, and his theatre play Dark Leaves was a finalist for the Rosenthal Award in the United States and the Soho Theatre Verity Bargate Award in 1998.  His theatre work has appeared at the Edinburg Festival, in London, in repertory, and in a number of other countries.  He wrote The Touch of Earthly Years for Working Title Films and had developed a number of other feature and television projects, including Nine for Ridley Scott.  Most recently he worked on The Mists of Avonlea a four hour mini-series for Warner Bros. Television, starring Anjelica Huston and Joan Allen, directed by Uli Edel.  He also writes poetry, lyrics and music, composed the requiem mass A Mass for the Living for the BBC (with Elizabeth Parker), wrote the book, music and lyrics for the musical Agonies Awakening for Radio 3 (shortlisted for the Vivian Ellis prize), and wrote the libretto for the opera The Mind Body Problem, based on his play, with music by Julian Grant.

[This write-up came directly out of the programme.]


Last updated: 1 November 2000

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