Peter Arnott
Thursday, 8 August @ 18:30 -- Red Lecture Theatre, Summerhall
Peter was born in Glasgow in 1962. He began his career at the Traverse in 1985 with The Death of Elias Sawney and White Rose (revived by Firebrand in 2013). The same year his play The Boxer Benny Lynch opened in Glasgow Arts Centre. Other theatre work includes: Muir and Losing Alec (Tron Theatre) ; The Breathing House (TMA Best Play Award, 2003, Lyceum Theatre Company) and Cyprus (Mull Little Theatre and Traflagar Studios); his many adaptations include Neil Gunn’s The Silver Darlings (His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen) which also toured throughout Scotland and was revived at the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010.
Peter was a recipient of a prestigious Creative Scotland Award in 2007. He was Writer in Residence for the John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland 2008-11, where he delivered a series of lectures with actors on the social context and impact of Darwin’s Origin of Species.
In 2012 he wrote the script for the Vox Motus/Lyceum production The Infamous Brothers Davenport and adapted Robin Jenkins’ The Conegatherers for His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen. He also won a Fringe First with Why Do You Stand There in the Rain? performed by students from Pepperdine University in California.
Recently he was Writer in Residence with the Traverse Theatre and the ESRC Genomics Forum at Edinburgh University and is now writing a play for them about the impact of scientific ideas. He is also under commission to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and Mull Theatre.
Peter was born in Glasgow in 1962. He began his career at the Traverse in 1985 with The Death of Elias Sawney and White Rose (revived by Firebrand in 2013). The same year his play The Boxer Benny Lynch opened in Glasgow Arts Centre. Other theatre work includes: Muir and Losing Alec (Tron Theatre) ; The Breathing House (TMA Best Play Award, 2003, Lyceum Theatre Company) and Cyprus (Mull Little Theatre and Traflagar Studios); his many adaptations include Neil Gunn’s The Silver Darlings (His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen) which also toured throughout Scotland and was revived at the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010.
Peter was a recipient of a prestigious Creative Scotland Award in 2007. He was Writer in Residence for the John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland 2008-11, where he delivered a series of lectures with actors on the social context and impact of Darwin’s Origin of Species.
In 2012 he wrote the script for the Vox Motus/Lyceum production The Infamous Brothers Davenport and adapted Robin Jenkins’ The Conegatherers for His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen. He also won a Fringe First with Why Do You Stand There in the Rain? performed by students from Pepperdine University in California.
Recently he was Writer in Residence with the Traverse Theatre and the ESRC Genomics Forum at Edinburgh University and is now writing a play for them about the impact of scientific ideas. He is also under commission to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and Mull Theatre.
