Peter Arnott

Born in Glasgow in 1962, Peter Arnott began his career as a playwright in Scotland in May 1985 with the simultaneous premieres of The Boxer Benny Lynch and White Rose. Forty-something plays later, he has won the TMA (2003), Creative Scotland (2007) and Fringe First (2012) awards. He has been writer-in-residence at the Traverse, the Tron and the National Library of Scotland. His plays have been performed in London, Moscow, Melbourne and New York. Vagabond Voices published his first novel, Moon Country, in 2015, and a double bill of his popular plays Face and Shall Roger Casement Hang? in 2016.