Marcy Kahan

Marcy Kahan is a British playwright and radio dramatist. She is a prolific author of urbane comedies for the BBC. She was born in Montreal, educated at Oxford University and trained in theatre in Paris with the Lecoq School teachers, Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux.

Theatre Work

• 20 Cigarettes National Youth Theatre, Soho Theatre 2007
• Stage version of Nora Ephron's When Harry Met Sally, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2005
• Goldberg Variations, Miranda Theatre, New York, 1999
• Intimate Memoirs of an Irish Taxidermist, Edinburgh and Donmar Theatre, 1986 Perrier Award for Best Comedy

Screenplay

• Antonia and Jane, BBC/Miramax, Gold Plaque Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1991 Chicago Film Festival

Radio Plays

• The Porlock Poisoner, BBC World Service 2011
• Incredibly Guilty, BBC R4 2011
• Big In Samoa, BBC R4 2010
• Life Complicated; Status Pending, BBC R4 2009
• From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe, BBC R4 2009
• Nostrovia Fitzrovia: The Black Cat Murder Mystery, BBC World Service 2009
• The Playwright & The Grammarian, BBC R4 2008
• Marvellous!, BBC World Service 2007
• The Noel Coward Quintet : Five detective comedies/spy thrillers featuring the British playwright Noel Coward: Design for Living; Blithe Spy; A Bullet at Balmain's; Death at the Desert Inn; Our Man in Jamaica, BBC R4
• Object of Insane Desire, BBC World Service,2006
• Drop Dead Gorgeous, BBC World Service, Bronze Medal for Best Play, 2004 New York Radio Festival
• The Non-Entity, BBC R4, 2003
• Killing Katerina, BBC World Service, 2001
• The Uncertainty Principle, BBC World Service, 2001 Kurd Lasswitz Science Fiction Prize
• Design for Murder, BBC R4, 2000
• The DJ Who Used To Be A Nun's Tale, BBC R4, 2000
• Victorville, BBC R4, 1998
• Salzburg in London, BBC World Service, 1997
• Everybody Comes to Schicklgruber's, BBC R4, 1997 Silver Sony Award
• Purgatory, BBC R3, 1991
• The Transmogrification of Herbert Mellish, BBC R4 1987
• Viva, BBC R4 1986
• One Last Final Fling, BBC R4,1985
• The Contemplative Life, BBC R3 1985

Radio Dramatisations

• Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse, BBC R4, 2008
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, CBC/BBC co-production, 2002
• The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart and George S Kaufman, BBC Radio 4 (25 December 2000)
• War & Peace (co-author: Mike Walker). Talkie Award for Best Drama, 1998
• The Wizard of Oz , BBC R4
• The Railway Children, BBC R4
• Anne of Green Gables, BBC R4
• Little Women & Good Wives, BBC R4

References

1.^[1] Cultural Impact of Noel Coward 2.^[2] Bomb Magazine 3. [1] Interview The Independent 4.^[3] 20 Cigarettes

1. ^ Cultural impact of Noël Coward
2. ^ BOMB (magazine)
3. ^ 20 Cigarettes

External links

• [2] BBC Homepage
• [3] Represented by The Agency
• [4] Radio Plays
• [5] IMDB
• [6] The Edge