Craig Warner

Craig Warner (born in Hollywood on April 25, 1964) is a playwright and screenwriter who lives and works in Suffolk, England. He wrote The Queen's Sister for Channel 4, which was nominated for several BAFTA awards (including Best Single Drama), Maxwell for BBC2, which starred David Suchet as Robert Maxwell, and The Last Days of Lehman Brothers, for which he was longlisted for a BAFTA Craft Award for Best Writer, and which won him the award for Best Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards in South Korea, 2010. He wrote the mini-series Julius Caesar for Warner Bros., which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for Best Original Long-Form Drama, and he performed an extensive uncredited rewrite on The Mists of Avalon, also for Warner Bros., which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award and nine Emmys, including Best Mini-series.

Craig Warner started out writing for the theatre and for radio. His first radio play for BBC Radio 4, Great Men of Music, was performed by Philip Davis and was included in Radio 4's first Young Playwrights Festival. His second play By Where the Old Shed Used to Be, with Miranda Richardson, won the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Plays of the Year, and it was included in the volume of winners for 1989, published by Methuen. His play Figure With Meat also won a Giles Cooper Award and was published in the Methuen volume of 1991. Craig Warner is the award’s youngest ever winner, having received it for the first time when he was 24.

In 1995 he acquired the stage rights to Patricia Highsmith’s novel Strangers on a Train, and his theatre version of that title has had a number of successful productions worldwide. The acting edition is published by Samuel French.

Warner is also a composer and has written music and songs for a number of his works, including a full-length musical for BBC Radio 3.

Warner wrote the screenplay for Codebreaker, a film about Alan Turing.