Peter Arnott
Peter Arnott was born in Glasgow
in 1962. He has been working professionally as a playwright since 1985
when The Boxer Benny Lynch and White Rose opened in the same week in
Glasgow Arts Centre and the Traverse respectively. Plays since then
have been Muir, Losing Alec, The Wire Garden, The Breathing House and
Cyprus among many others, including translations and adaptations.
Losing Alec, The Breathing House and Cyprus have been recently
published by Fairplay Press.
Peter was a recipient of a prestigious Creative Scotland Award 2007 for
a trilogy of plays about how we can live while we're waiting for the
end of the world.
He has also written screenplays, cabaret and song lyrics. He is Chair
of the Scottish Society of Playwrights and was an Associate Playwright
and also on the founding board for Playwrights' Studio Scotland.