John Cairney

About John Cairney Dr John Cairney lives in Auckland with his wife Alannah O’Sullivan, and together they form the Pennyfarthing Partnership. John returns to Scotland on a regular basis. He made his stage debut at the tender age of 17 and has been acting ever since, perhaps best known for writing and starring in the 1968 Scottish Television adaptation ‘Burns’, presented as a six week serial. He has also adapted Burns for theatrical productions for decades, and performed for radio, television, in film, on stage, in musicals, as well as producing video and audio recordings of the Bard. He has toured his one-man show and was awarded a PhD for his work on Stevenson. Previous titles – On The Trail of Robert Burns, Immortal Memories, The Luath Burns Companion and The Quest for Robert Louis Stevenson, The Man who Played Robert Burns, East End to West End, Worlds Apart, A Year Out in New Zealand, The Quest for Charles Rennie Mackintosh.