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Moira Buffini
Moira Buffini
Moira Buffini initially trained as an actor and one of her first jobs was teaching drama in Holloway Prison. She co-wrote the monologue Jordan, with Anna Reynolds, which she went on to perform. It won both the Writer’s Guild Award for the Best Fringe play 1992 and a Time Out award for her performance. She produced and directed her second play Blavatsky’s Tower, on the London Fringe. She wrote Gabriel for Soho Theatre in 1997, which won LWT Plays On Stage Award and also the Meyer Whitworth Award; Silence was commissioned by the National Theatre Studio and produced by Birmingham Rep and Plymouth Theatre Royal. It won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. In 2001, Loveplay was produced by the RSC. In 2002 Dinner was produced at the National Theatre Loft, and nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy. It transferred to Wyndhams Theatre in the West End the following year. She has written and directed three short plays The Teacher, for the National Theatre’s National Headlines series, The Games Room for the Focus Group at Soho Theatre and Doomsday Girl for the RSC. She is currently under commission to the Almeida and the National Theatre. Her writing for film includes Melissa Malone for the BBC (unmade), Presence for Prospect / Film Four and the screenplay of Gabriel for Passion Pictures (both in development). She has also written the short film The Enlightenment for Julia Ford and is currently working on Dibbuk Box for Mandate Pictures in America; executive producer, Sam Raimi.
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