Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright of theatre and radio
whose plays are regularly produced in the UK and abroad. In 2021 he
set up Applied Stories, a digital production company making audio
drama and online training.
His first play Protection was produced at Soho Theatre in 2003,
where he was also Pearson writer-in-residence. His second play How
To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found won the 38th Arts
Council John Whiting Award and has been produced around the world.
It has become a firm favourite with student and amateur performance
groups and is among Nick Hern Books' most licensed plays.
Fin has 20 years' experience writing for teenagers, often through a
process of being embedded in an inner-city school or youth
theatre.
His first two plays for teenagers, Locked In (2006) and We Are
Shadows (2008) were produced by Half Moon Young People's Theatre
and toured nationally. Life Raft (2015) for Bristol Old Vic Young
Company, has been translated into German and French for use in
schools across Europe.
From 2006-2014 Fin was writer-in-residence at Mulberry School for
Girls in east London, for whom he has written seven plays,
published in two volumes by Nick Hern Books as The Urban Girl's
Guide to Camping and other plays and The Domino Effect and other
plays for teenagers.
Fin also writes for radio and has had ten Afternoon Plays broadcast
on BBC Radio 4 including The Good Listener, a returning series set
inside GCHQ and On Kosovo Field, a collaboration with musician PJ
Harvey.
Fin's most recent venture is the UK's first fully online
Playwrighting for Teachers course, to pass on many of the original
creative writing exercises he has devised over the years.
'To say Fin Kennedy and Mulberry School for Girls are one of the
best writer/education partnerships there is doesn't do them
justice. To say they're one of the best companies at the Fringe
comes closer'
*Scotsman*
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