David Greig

David Greig is as prolific playwright from Edinburgh. He was born in Edinburgh in 1969 but spent the first few years of his life living in Jos in Nigeria. He returned to Scotland aged twelve, and went to school at Stewart’s Melville College. He later studied drama at Bristol University, where he and some friends set up the Suspect Culture theatre company, which moved to Scotland later. His first play was produced in Glasgow in 1992, and he now writes around four or five plays a year.

As well as his own plays, Greig has written English-language versions of a number of major plays by Camus, Euripedes and others, and he also directed a number of plays. Greig has been commissioned to write for the Royal Court, the National Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His play Damascus was inspired by time he spent in the Middle East, working with the British Council in Syria.

David Greig is now living in Fife, where he has two children. His 2010 play Dunsinane, a sequel to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, was shortlisted for a Saltire Society Award.