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David Greig is an award-winning Scottish playwright and director whose work has been staged at major theatres across Britain and produced worldwide. He recently stepped down as Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh after eight years, during which he championed bold new work and international collaborations, cementing its reputation as one of Scotland’s most pioneering theatres.
Theatre includes: One Day (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), Ukraine Unbroken (Arcola), Two Sisters (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), The Events (Traverse, Young Vic), Glasgow Girls (Citizens, National Theatre of Scotland), The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Tron, National Theatre of Scotland), Dunsinane (RSC at Hampstead, National Theatre of Scotland), Midsummer (Traverse, Soho, Tricycle), Damascus (Traverse, Tricycle), The American Pilot (RSC), Pyrenees (Paines Plough), Outlying Islands (Traverse, Royal Court), The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (Donmar, Paines Plough), The Architect (Traverse), Europe (Traverse) – and adaptations including Solaris (Lyceum, Lyric Hammersmith, Malthouse Theatre), Touching the Void (Lyceum, Bristol Old Vic, West End), Strindberg’s Creditors (Donmar, BAM Harvey), and Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh).
Musicals include: The Lorax (Old Vic) and Local Hero (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Chichester Festival Theatre).
Awards include: The Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award for The Events, and multiple accolades for productions such as The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart and Glasgow Girls.
He is currently under commission to the National Theatre, Fuel Theatre Company and Sheffield Crucible Theatre. He has also written a novel, The Book of I, and is currently working on two further books.
