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Zinnie Harris
Zinnie Harris is a multi-award winning playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Her plays include Meet at Dawn, (Traverse Theatre / Edinburgh International Festival 2017), Th...view moreZinnie Harris is a multi-award winning playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Her plays include Meet at Dawn, (Traverse Theatre / Edinburgh International Festival 2017), This Restless House (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, 2016 then Edinburgh International Festival 2017), winner of Best New Play at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2016, and shortlisted for Susan Smith Blackburn Award; How To Hold Your Breath (Royal Court Theatre, 2015), winner of the Berwin Lee Award 2015; The Message and On The Watch (Tricycle Theatre, London, 2012), The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland, 2011) joint winner of the 2011 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award and a Fringe First, short-listed for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award; The Panel (Tricycle Theatre, London 2010); The Garden (Traverse Theatre, 2009); Fall (Traverse Theatre, 2008) Solstice (RSC, 2005); Midwinter, 2004) winner of an Arts Foundation Fellowship Award for playwriting, and short-listed for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award; Nightingale and Chase (Royal Court, 2001); and Further Than The Furthest Thing (Royal National Theatre/Tron Theatre, 2000/1), which was winner of the Peggy Ramsay Playwriting Award, the John Whiting Award and a Fringe First award as well as being specially commended by the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and short-listed for the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright, By Many Wounds (Hampstead Theatre 1999) shortlisted for the Allied Domecq Award and the Meyer Whitworth Award. Adaptations include Rhinoceros (Edinburgh International Festival 2017) A Doll’s House (Donmar Warehouse, 2009) Master Builder (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Miss Julie (National Theatre of Scotland, 2006).
Her screen writing includes two 90 minute dramas for Channel 4 (Richard Is My Boyfriend and Born With Two Mothers), and episodes for the BBC1 Drama Spooks. She was lead writer and Series Creator for the BBC 1 Agatha Christie adaption, Partners In Crime which was broadcast in 2014.
As a theatre director she has directed numerous main stage productions for the RSC, the Traverse Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre, and the Tron theatre. She won Best Director for the Cats 2017, for her direction of Caryl Churchill’s A Number at the Lyceum Theatre, and directed Frances Poet’s play Gut to much acclaim at the Traverse Theatre. She became the Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre since spring 2015.view less
Books by Zinnie Harris
Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives (NHB Modern Plays): Eight Monologues