Marcy Kahan (born 4 July) is a British playwright and radio dramatist, who is half-Canadian and half-American.BBC World Service – Meet the WritersRADIO / The tides of the Marches: Georgina Brown reports on an adaptation for radio of Louisa May Alcott's classic Good Wives, Georgina Brown, The Independent 10 February 1993 She is a prolific author of urbane comedies for the BBC. She was born in Montreal, educated at Somerville College, Oxford and trained in theatre in Paris with the Lecoq School teachers, Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux.
Selected works Theatre 20 Cigarettes National Youth Theatre, Soho Theatre 2007 Stage version of Nora Ephron's When Harry Met Sally ..., Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2005 Goldberg Variations, Miranda Theatre, New York, 1999 Intimate Memoirs of an Irish Taxidermist, Edinburgh and Donmar Theatre, 1986 Perrier Award for Best Comedy
Screenplay Antonia and Jane, BBC/Miramax, Gold Plaque Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1991 Chicago Film Festival
Press Bomb magazine — Michael Frayn by Marcy Kahan (issue 73, fall 2000)
Radio Radio plays Fusion Confidential BBC Radio 4, 24 October 2020 Born To Be Wilde: The Warhol Years BBC Radio 4, 17 December 2018 Ninety Minutes With Stanislavski BBC Radio 3, 10 December 2017 Five Lessons - Series A Month of Maureen BBC Radio 4, 13 November 2017 Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Five BBC Radio 4, 24–28 July 2017 Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Four BBC Radio 4, 18–22 July 2016 Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Three BBC Radio 4, 11–15 May 2015 Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series Two BBC Radio 4, 22–26 September 2014 2015 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy Lunch: A Platonic Romantic Comedy - Series One BBC Radio 4, 15–19 July 2013 Mr Bridger's Orphan, BBC Radio 4, 15 Mar 2013BBC – Afternoon Play – Mr Bridger's Orphan The Porlock Poisoner, BBC World Service, 13 Aug 2011BBC – World Drama – The Porlock Poisoner Incredibly Guilty, BBC Radio 4, 14 Jan 2011BBC – Afternoon Play – Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable Big In Samoa, BBC Radio 4, 1 Jan 2010BBC – Afternoon Play – Big In Samoa Life Complicated; Status Pending, BBC Radio 4, 7 Oct 2009BBC – Afternoon Play – Life Complicated – Status Pending From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe, BBC Radio 4, 4 May 2008BBC – Radio 4 – From Fact to Fiction: Artie & Zoe From Fact to Fiction: The Heebie Jeebies, BBC Radio 4, 20 December 2014BBC – Radio 4 – From Fact to Fiction: The Heebie Jeebies Nostrovia Fitzrovia: The Black Cat Murder Mystery, BBC World Service, 3 May 2008BBC – World Drama – Worldplay – The Black Cat Murder Mystery, Nostrovia Fitzrovia The Playwright & The Grammarian, BBC Radio 4, 2 May 2008BBC – Afternoon Play – The Playwright and the Grammarian Marvellous!, BBC World Service, 2007 The Noël Coward Quintet : Five detective comedies/spy thrillers featuring the British playwright Noël Coward: Design for Murder, 2000; Blithe Spy, 2002; A Bullet at Balmain's, 2003; Death at the Desert Inn, 2004; Our Man in Jamaica, 2007, BBC Radio 4 20 Cigarettes, BBC Radio 4, 2006BBC – Friday Play – 20 Cigarettes Object of Insane Desire, BBC World Service, 2006 Drop Dead Gorgeous, BBC World Service, Bronze Medal for Best Play, 2004 New York Radio Festival The Non-Entity, BBC Radio 4, 2003 Killing Katerina, BBC World Service, 2001 The Uncertainty Principle, BBC World Service, 2001 Kurd Lasswitz Science Fiction Prize The DJ Who Used To Be A Nun's Tale, BBC Radio 4, 2000 Victorville, BBC Radio 4, 1998 Salzburg in London, BBC World Service, 1997 Everybody Comes to Schicklgruber's, BBC Radio 4, 1997 Silver Sony Award Purgatory, BBC Radio 3, 1991 The Transmogrification of Herbert Mellish, BBC Radio 4 1987 Viva, BBC Radio 4, 1986 One Last Final Fling, BBC Radio 4, 1985 The Contemplative Life, BBC Radio 3, 1985 She was one of the writers of BBC Radio 4's soap opera Citizens.
Radio dramatisations Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff, BBC Radio 4, 18 May 2025 A Room With A View by E.M. Forster, BBC Radio 4, 21 and 28 May 2023 Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart, BBC Radio 4, 23 and 30 August 2020 Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, BBC Radio 4, a 5-episode dramatisation, 22–26 May 2017 Look Who's Back? from the novel by Timur Vermes BBC Radio 4 27 September, 4 October 2015 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, BBC Radio 4, a 15-episode dramatisation, 5–23 January 2015* Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse, BBC Radio 4, 2008BBC – Radio 4 – Psmith in the City Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, CBC/BBC co-production, 2002 The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart and George S Kaufman, BBC Radio 4, 25 December 2000 War & Peace (co-author: Mike Walker). Talkie Award for Best Drama, 1998 The Wizard of Oz , BBC Radio 4 The Railway Children, BBC Radio 4 Anne of Green Gables, BBC Radio 4 Little Women & Good Wives, BBC Radio 4, 1992–3
References
Sources Stephen Mangan & Marcy Kahan interview Radio 4's Lunch was a wise and witty feast for the senses Who will be the first woman on the moon?
External links BBC World Service – Meet the Writers Represented by The Agency Radio Plays
The Edge Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellowship] [2015 BBC Audio Drama Award Winners] [BBC The Corrections Homepage]