Cash Carraway is an Irish-English screenwriter, director, and executive producer best known for creating and writing the HBO series, ''

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'' for which she was nominated for a

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and won a

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Breakthrough.

Early life

Cash Carraway grew up in

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, London and attended Carshalton High School for Girls until the age of 14 when she successfully auditioned to study theatre at the

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. As a teenager, Carraway worked in a Soho

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and lived on the

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estate in

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Career

''Skint Estate''

In 2019

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published Carraway's memoir ''Skint Estate''. The book was met with critical acclaim and

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called her "The new voice of a generation." A prequel to ''Skint Estate'' entitled ''Fleshpot'' was announced by

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in 2020. The film and television rights to ''Skint Estate'' were sold in a bidding war and the project went into formal development with the BBC.

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was attached to play the role of Cash Carraway. Carraway began work on the screenplay before quitting the project, stating it was "too exposing." She later told the Hollywood Reporter "I disliked the fact that writing about myself was the only way I was allowed to make money from writing, so I quit." The book was translated into Italian where it became a bestseller under the name ''La porca miseria''. In an interview with journalist Laura Pezzino for

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Carraway criticised the way ''Skint Estate'' was received by the British press: “I was not treated as a writer but like someone who sold her story to a tabloid. I have discovered that writing really is the most dangerous sport for a working class woman and for this I have decided that I will no longer publish anything autobiographical."

''Rain Dogs''

In March 2022, the BBC announced that production had begun on Carraway's original comedy drama series ''

''. As the creator, writer and executive producer of ''Rain Dogs'', Carraway serves as showrunner on the BBC and HBO original starring

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. In an interview with Warner Media, Carraway said "''Rain Dogs'' isn't autobiographical but it definitely has firm roots in the chip on my shoulder." In March 2023, Carraway told the

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"There's a lot of me in ''Rain Dogs'' but it's not my life story. I'm not Costello Jones, if anything I'm more like Selby, I've just hidden myself inside an upper class gay man." Carraway was originally going to call the series ''All Shook Down'' after an album by The Replacements but later changed it to ''Rain Dogs'' after

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’ booze-soaked record about “people who sleep in doorways” All of the music featured in ''Rain Dogs'' was specified in the scripts written by Carraway.

Future Projects

In November 2023, the

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announced three new Carraway projects. A sitcom titled ''Big Shot'' for Boffola Pictures, a comedy drama called ''Reserve List'' for Objective Fiction, and a feature film with

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Accolades

She was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Series. Carraway was awarded a place on the 2023

Breakthrough list. Rain Dogs won a

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for 'Best Scripted'. Her writing is often compared to

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and

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. ''

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'' described Carraway's writing style as "Raunchy gallows humour. And she's genius at it."

Influences

Her artistic influences include the cinematic works of

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and

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as well as the satirist Chris Morris and screenwriter John Sullivan.

Personal life

She resides in

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, North London and Los Angeles.

Published works

Plays

* ''The Last Peepshow in Soho'' (

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) * ''The French Inhaler'' ( Clean Break) * ''Refuge Woman'' (

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)

Books

* ''Skint Estate: Notes from the Poverty Line'' (2019; Penguin Random House) * ''La Porca Miseria'' (2023; Alegre)

TV

* ''Rain Dogs'' (BBC/

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) – creator, writer, executive producer

References

External links

Cash Carraway
on

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