DNA

Dennis Kelly is an internationally acclaimed playwright. Stage plays include Debris (Theater 503 and Battersea Arts Center, 2003 & 2004); Osama the Hero (Paines Plough and Hampstead Theater 2004 & 2005; winner of the Meyer Whitworth Award 2006); After the End (Paines Plough, Traverse Theater, Bush Theater, UK and international tour, 2005); Love and Money (Young Vic Theater and Manchester Royal Exchange, 2006); Taking Care of Baby (Hampstead Theater and Birmingham Repertory Theater, 2006; winner of the John Whiting Award 2007); DNA (NT Connections, National Theater, 2007-8); Orphans (Paines Plough, Traverse Theater, Soho Theater and Birmingham Rep, 2009; winner of a Fringe First and Herald Angel Award 2009) and The Gods Weep (Royal Shakespeare Company and Hampstead Theater).In 2009 Dennis 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). Dennis 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.'We have a pool of amazingly talented playwrights in Britain, and we also have a quite separate talent pool producing comedy. There is very little dialogue between these two worlds, but Dennis is able to move very easily between them, and that is quite unique.' - Mark Ravenhill