Ryan Craig

Ryan Craig (born 1972) is a British playwright. He began writing for the theatre in 1996 with "The Sins of Dalia Baumgarten" and "Happy Savages". He wrote "What We Did To Weinstein" in 2005 for the Menier Chocolate Factory,(which won him a nomination for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards) and "Broken Road" (a play set in a moving car for the Edinburgh Festival which won a Fringe First.) Other plays include his 2006 play about the trial of a Holocaust Denier for the Hampstead Theatre, "The Glass Room."

In 2005 He was the BBC's Radio Drama writer in residence. His radio work began in 2002 with "Looking for Danny" for BBC Radio4. He has also adapted "The Great Pursuit" by Tom Sharpe, Zoltan Egressy's "Portugal", Aristophanes' "Lysistrata", and the devised feature "Hold My Breath".

He has worked extensively in television, most recently he penned the Channel 4 film Saddam's Tribe for World Productions.