Evan Placey
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Evan is a Canadian-British playwright and screenwriter who lives in London, UK. His debut play Mother of Him won the inaugural RBC National Playwriting Award at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, the King’s Cross Award in the UK, and the Samuel French Canadian Play Award in the USA. The play went on to be produced internationally and was adapted for BBC Radio. It was revived at the Park Theatre, London, and the Korean version will open in 2025 at the National Theatre Company of Korea.
His other plays include Girls Like That; Orange Polar Bear; Keepy Uppy, Consensual, Pronoun WiLd!, Scarberia, Holloway Jones, Banana Boys, Jekyll& Hyde, and Peter Pan. Awards include: Jugend Theatre Preis Baden-Wurttemberg (Germany), Scenic Youth prize (France), Brian Way Award, Royal Society of Literature’s Literature Matters Award and the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences (all UK). His plays have been translated into more than a dozen languages. For television he has written for Soulmates (AMC/Amazon), The Bay (ITV) and The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Sky/Peacock). Evan was recently named on the Brit List.