Marcy Kahan

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.

Selected works

Theatre

Screenplay

  • Antonia and Jane, BBC/Miramax, Gold Plaque Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1991 Chicago Film Festival

Press

Radio

Radio plays

  • Fusion Confidential BBC Radio 4, 24 October 2020
  • Born To Be Wilde: The Warhol Years BBC Radio 4, 17 December 2018 [3]
  • Ninety Minutes With Stanislavski BBC Radio 3, 10 December 2017[4]
  • Five Lessons - Series A Month of Maureen BBC Radio 4, 13 November 2017
  • Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Five BBC Radio 4, 24–28 July 2017
  • Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Four BBC Radio 4, 18–22 July 2016
  • Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Three BBC Radio 4, 11–15 May 2015
  • Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Two BBC Radio 4, 22–26 September 2014 2015 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy
  • Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series One BBC Radio 4, 15–19 July 2013
  • Mr Bridger's Orphan, BBC Radio 4, 15 Mar 2013[5]
  • The Porlock Poisoner, BBC World Service, 13 Aug 2011[6]
  • Incredibly Guilty, BBC Radio 4, 14 Jan 2011[7]
  • Big In Samoa, BBC Radio 4, 1 Jan 2010[8]
  • Life Complicated; Status Pending, BBC Radio 4, 7 Oct 2009[9]
  • From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe, BBC Radio 4, 4 May 2008[10]
  • From Fact to Fiction: The Heebie Jeebies, BBC Radio 4, 20 December 2014[11]
  • Nostrovia Fitzrovia: The Black Cat Murder Mystery, BBC World Service, 3 May 2008[12]
  • The Playwright & The Grammarian, BBC Radio 4, 2 May 2008[13]
  • 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[14]
  • 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

She was one of the writers of BBC Radio 4's soap opera Citizens.[15]

Radio dramatisations

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 Radio 4 - Drama, Born to be Wilde: The Warhol Years".
  4. ^ "BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Ninety Minutes with Stanislavski".
  5. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Mr Bridger's Orphan
  6. ^ BBC – World Drama – The Porlock Poisoner
  7. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable
  8. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Big In Samoa
  9. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Life Complicated – Status Pending
  10. ^ BBC – Radio 4 – From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe
  11. ^ BBC – Radio 4 – From Fact to Fiction: The Heebie Jeebies
  12. ^ BBC – World Drama – Worldplay – The Black Cat Murder Mystery, Nostrovia Fitzrovia
  13. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Playwright and the Grammarian
  14. ^ BBC – Friday Play – 20 Cigarettes
  15. ^ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  16. ^ BBC – Radio 4 – Psmith in the City

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