Moses Raine (born 7 August 1984) is an English playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Oxford and is the son of the poet and critic

Craig Raine Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is a pioneer of Martian poetry, a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects. He was a fellow of New C ...

and

Ann Pasternak Slater Dr Ann Pasternak Slater (born 3 August 1944) is a literary scholar and translator who was formerly a Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College, Oxford. Ann Pasternak Slater is the daughter of Lydia Pasternak Slater (1902–1989), chemist, translator ...

; he is also a grand nephew of the Russian novelist

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, ''My Sister, Life'', was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an imp ...

. He attended the

Dragon School The Dragon School is a private school across two sites in Oxford, England. The Dragon Pre-Prep (children aged 4–7) and Prep School (children aged 8–13) are both co-educational schools. The Dragon Prep School was founded in 1877 as the Oxfo ...

and St. Edward's School, in Oxford.

Life and career

In 2004 he was shortlisted for the

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for his collection of short plays, ''The Survival Handbook''. His next play, ''Shrieks of Laughter'', was commissioned as part of

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's Writers' Attachment Programme, and premiered at the

in 2006. In The Observer (21 May 2006)

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wrote, of both: "Moses Raine wasn't born when Cheek by Jowl was founded, but he's already written a spellbinding clutch of plays: they are like no one else's." In May 2014 Raine's ''Donkey Heart'' premiered at the Old Red Lion Theater, Islington. This ‘big-hearted new work’ was praised by David Benedict in

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(19 May 2014) as ‘consistently surprising … highly entertaining … The energy and warmth of this unexpected winner deserve far wider attention and exposure.’ ‘This absorbing portrait of contemporary Russian life is full of original, quirkily charming humour’

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(12 May 2014) Moses Raine is currently working on a film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s short story, "Conversation with a Cupboard Man".

References

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