Stephen Greenhorn

Stephen Greenhorn (born 5 September 1964 in Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland) is a Scottish playwright and screenwriter. 2Theatre Greenhorn’s plays have been produced by a wide variety of theatre companies across the UK as well as on BBC Radio and several have been published. Original or adapted works for the stage include: The Salt Wound (1994), Dissent (1998), and Gilt (2003) for 7:84 theatre group; Passing Places (1997) and The Ballad of Crazy Paolo (2001) for the Traverse Theatre; Sleeping Around (1998) with Abi Morgan, Mark Ravenhill and Hilary Fannin for Paines Plough touring theatre and King Matt (2001) for TAG Theatre Company. Passing Places won the author a nomination for Scottish Writer of the Year in 1998 and has since been translated many times and produced worldwide. In 2007 he created Sunshine on Leith for Dundee Rep – a musical featuring the songs of The Proclaimers. The show won the TMA Award for Best Musical that year and has toured several times since. A film version was released in 2013. 2Television Greenhorn’s TV work includes episodes of The Bill and Where The Heart Is. For BBC One he has written the six-part drama series Glasgow Kiss (2000) and the feature-length drama Derailed (2005). He is the creator of the BBC Scotland soap opera River Cit