DNA

About Dennis Kelly

Dennis Kelly is an internationally acclaimed playwright. Stage plays include Debris (Theatre 503 and Battersea Arts Centre 2003 & 2004); Osama the Hero (Paines Plough and Hampstead Theatre 2004 & 2005; winner of the Meyer Whitworth Award 2006); After the End (Paines Plough Traverse Theatre Bush Theatre UK and international tour 2005); Love and Money (Young Vic Theatre and Manchester Royal Exchange 2006); Taking Care of Baby (Hampstead Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre 2006; winner of the John Whiting Award 2007); DNA (NT Connections National Theatre 2007-8); Orphans (Paines Plough Traverse Theatre Soho Theatre and Birmingham Rep 2009; winner of a Fringe First and Herald Angel Award 2009) and The Gods Weep (Royal Shakespear Company and Hampstead Theatre). In 2009 he was voted Best Foreign Playwright 2009 by Theatre Heute Germany. Work for radio includes The Colony (BBC Radio 3 2004; Prix Europa Award - Best European Radio Drama and Radio & Music Award - Scripting for Broadcast 2004) and 12 Shares (BBC Radio 4 2005). He co-wrote the award-winning comedy series Pulling (Silver River and BBC 3 2006 - 09) and wrote the stage adaptation for Roald Dahl's Matilda which won the Olivier award for Best New Musical in 2012. Clare Finburgh Delijani is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths University of London UK. Her research focuses on French Francophone and UK contemporary performance notably innovations in French modern and contemporary playwriting and directing; and representations of conflict in UK theatre. She has co-written Jean Genet (with David Bradby 2011) and co-edited Genet: Performance and Politics (2006) and Contemporary French Theatre and Performance (2011). She is author of a monograph in the Methuen Drama Engage series Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage (2017).