Marcy Kahan
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Marcy Kahan is a British playwright and radio dramatist. 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
Radio Plays
Radio Dramatisations
Philippe Gaulier
Philippe Gaulier is founder of École Philippe Gaulier, a theatre school located in Sceaux, near Paris. He trained with Jacques Lecoq from 1965 - 67. Then became a teacher at École Jacques Lecoq from 1976 - 80. Gaulier is also a playwright and has worked as a clown and theatre director...
and Monika Pagneux.
Theatre Work
- 20 Cigarettes20 Cigarettes20 Cigarettes is a radio play commissioned by the BBC and written by Marcy Kahan, author of the 1991 film Antonia and Jane. Kahan was commissioned in 2007 to rewrite the play for the stage by the National Youth Theatre. The production was directed by Toby Frow, and was, contrary to contemporary...
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 JaneAntonia and JaneAntonia and Jane is a 1991 comedy film directed by Beeban Kidron and starring Imelda Staunton, Saskia Reeves, Brenda Bruce and Bill Nighy. It is about two mismatched woman friends who have had a love–hate relationship with each other since childhood....
, BBC/Miramax, Gold Plaque Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1991 Chicago Film Festival
Radio Plays
- The Porlock Poisoner, BBC World Service 2011
- Incredibly Guilty, BBC R4 2011
- Big In Samoa, BBC R4 2010
- Life Complicated; Status Pending, BBC R4 2009
- From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe, BBC R4 2009
- Nostrovia Fitzrovia: The Black Cat Murder Mystery, BBC World Service 2009
- The Playwright & The Grammarian, BBC R4 2008
- Marvellous!, BBC World Service 2007
- The Noël Coward Quintet : Five detective comedies/spy thrillers featuring the British playwright Noël CowardNoël CowardSir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
: 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 R4 - 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 R4, 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 R4, 2000
- Victorville, BBC R4, 1998
- Salzburg in London, BBC World Service, 1997
- Everybody Comes to Schicklgruber's, BBC R4, 1997 Silver Sony Award
- Purgatory, BBC R3, 1991
- The Transmogrification of Herbert Mellish, BBC R4 1987
- Viva, BBC R4 1986
- One Last Final Fling, BBC R4,1985
- The Contemplative Life, BBC R3 1985
Radio Dramatisations
- Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse, BBC R4, 2008
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, CBC/BBC co-production, 2002
- The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss HartMoss HartMoss Hart was an American playwright and theatre director, best known for his interpretations of musical theater on Broadway.-Early years:...
and George S Kaufman, BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
(25 December 2000) - War & Peace (co-author: Mike WalkerMike Walker (radio dramatist)Mike Walker is a radio dramatist and feature and documentary writer. His radio work includes both original plays and adaptations of novels, classical and modern...
). Talkie Award for Best Drama, 1998 - The Wizard of Oz , BBC R4
- The Railway Children, BBC R4
- Anne of Green Gables, BBC R4
- Little Women & Good Wives, BBC R4
External links
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/howtowrite/writers_mk.shtml BBC Homepage
- http://www.theagency.co.uk/clients/clientdisplay.html?viewListing=MTk3 Represented by The Agency
- http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/mkahan.html Radio Plays
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434669/ IMDB
- http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/serpentine07_index.html The Edge