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Marcy Kahan (born 4 July) is a British playwright and

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tist, who is half-

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and half- American. She is a prolific author of urbane comedies for the

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, educated at Somerville College, Oxford and trained in theatre in

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with the Lecoq School teachers, Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux. She was one of the writers of

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's soap opera Citizens.

Selected works

Theatre

*'' 20 Cigarettes'' National Youth Theatre, Soho Theatre 2007 * Stage version of

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's '' When Harry Met Sally ...'',

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, 2005 * ''Goldberg Variations'', Miranda Theatre, New York, 1999 * ''Intimate Memoirs of an Irish Taxidermist'', Edinburgh and Donmar Theatre, 1986

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for Best Comedy

Screenplay

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'', BBC/Miramax, Gold Plaque Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1991 Chicago Film Festival

Press

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by Marcy Kahan (issue 73, fall 2000)

Radio

Radio plays

*Fusion Confidential

, 24th October 2020 *Born To Be Wilde: The Warhol Years

, 17 December 2018 *Ninety Minutes With Stanislavski BBC Radio 3, 10 December 2017 *Five Lessons - Series A Month of Maureen

, 13 November 2017 *Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Five

, 24–28 July 2017 *Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Four

, 18–22 July 2016 *Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Three

, 11–15 May 2015 *Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Two

, 22–26 September 2014 2015 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy *Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series One

, 15–19 July 2013 *'' Mr Bridger's Orphan'',

, 15 Mar 2013 *''The Porlock Poisoner'', BBC World Service, 13 Aug 2011 *''Incredibly Guilty'',

, 14 Jan 2011 *''Big In Samoa'', BBC Radio 4, 1 Jan 2010 *''Life Complicated; Status Pending'', BBC Radio 4, 7 Oct 2009 *''From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe'', BBC Radio 4, 4 May 2008 *''From Fact to Fiction: The Heebie Jeebies'', BBC Radio 4, 20 December 2014 *''Nostrovia Fitzrovia: The Black Cat Murder Mystery'', BBC World Service, 3 May 2008 *''The Playwright & The Grammarian'', BBC Radio 4, 2 May 2008 *''Marvellous!'', BBC World Service, 2007 *'' The Noël Coward Quintet'' : Five detective comedies/spy thrillers featuring the British playwright Noël Coward: '' Design for Murder'', 2000; ''Blithe Spy'', 2002; '' A Bullet at Balmain's'', 2003; '' Death at the Desert Inn'', 2004; ''Our Man in Jamaica'', 2007, BBC Radio 4 *''20 Cigarettes'', BBC Radio 4, 2006 *''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 Radio 4, 2003 *''Killing Katerina'', BBC World Service, 2001 *''The Uncertainty Principle'', BBC World Service, 2001 Kurd Lasswitz Science Fiction Prize *''The DJ Who Used To Be A Nun's Tale'', BBC Radio 4, 2000 *''

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'', BBC Radio 4, 1998 *''Salzburg in London'', BBC World Service, 1997 *'' Everybody Comes to Schicklgruber's'', BBC Radio 4, 1997 Silver

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'', BBC Radio 3, 1991 *''The Transmogrification of Herbert Mellish'', BBC Radio 4 1987 *''Viva'', BBC Radio 4, 1986 *''One Last Final Fling'', BBC Radio 4, 1985 *''The Contemplative Life'', BBC Radio 3, 1985

Radio dramatisations

*''Madam, Will You Talk?'' by Mary Stewart, BBC Radio 4, 23 and 30 August 2020 *''Kitchen Confidential'' by Anthony Bourdain, BBC Radio 4, a 5-episode dramatisation, 22–26 May 2017 *''Look Who's Back?'' from the novel by Timur Vermes

27 September, 4 October 2015 *''The Corrections'' by

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, BBC Radio 4, a 15-episode dramatisation, 5–23 January 2015* *''Psmith in the City'' by P.G. Wodehouse, BBC Radio 4, 2008BBC – Radio 4 – ''Psmith in the City''
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'', CBC/BBC co-production, 2002 *''

The Man Who Came to Dinner ''The Man Who Came to Dinner'' is a comedy play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It debuted on October 16, 1939, at the Music Box Theatre in New York City, where it ran until 1941, closing after 739 performances. It then enjoyed a number of N ...

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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 Radio 4 *''The Railway Children'', BBC Radio 4 *''Anne of Green Gables'', BBC Radio 4 *'' Little Women'' & ''

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'', BBC Radio 4, 1992–3

References

Sources

Stephen Mangan & Marcy Kahan interview
Radio 4's Lunch was a wise and witty feast for the senses

Who will be the first woman on the moon?

External links

BBC World Service – Meet the Writers
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