Highlight on James Graham (Playwright)
James Graham is a British playwright and screenwriter. His work has been staged throughout the UK and internationally, at theatres including the Bush, Soho Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru and the National Theatre.
Graham grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and was educated at University of Hull, where he studied drama.
Graham's first professional play Albert's Boy was produced by the Finborough Theatre in London, where Graham became playwright-in-residence. His first major play This House was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre, where it was critically and commercially acclaimed, transferred to the larger Olivier Theatre, and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Play.
In 2018 Graham won his first Olivier Award, for Labour of Love as best new comedy (his other play Ink was nominated for an Olivier in the same year). He wrote the book for the Broadway musical Finding Neverland, and two of his own plays, Ink and Privacy, transferred to Broadway.
Graham's debut feature film X+Y premiered in 2015, and he has written numerous TV dramas, including the TV films Coalition (which won the Royal Television Society award for Best Single Film) and Brexit: The Uncivil War. Brexit: The Uncivil War aired on Channel 4 on 7 January 2019.
His plays are published by Methuen and we have every published play as part of the Whittaker collection at 822.92 GRA.
In January 2019, Graham's life and work was the subject of an in-depth BBC One documentary as part of the Imagine series. Check out this documentary on one of the UK most interesting young playwrights.
Maybe something form his body of work would make a good audition monologue or a duologue for showcase? "He's so hot right now"!
