Moira Buffini (born 1965) is an English dramatist, director, and actor.
Career
Buffini was born in Carlisle to Irish parents, and studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths College, London University (1983–86). She subsequently trained as an actor at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. For Jordan, co-written with Anna Reynolds in 1992, she won a Time Out Award for her performance and Writers' Guild Award for Best Fringe play. Her 1997 play Gabriel was performed at Soho theatre, winning the LWT Plays on Stage award. Her 1999 play Silence earned Buffini the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for best English-language play by a woman. Loveplay followed at the RSC in 2001, then Dinner at the National Theatre in 2003 which transferred to the West End and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy.
Buffini wrote Dying For It, a free adaptation of Nikolai Erdman's classic, The Suicide, for the Almeida in 2007. She followed it with Marianne Dreams a dance play with choreographer Will Tuckett, based on Catherine Storr's book. Her play for young people, A Vampire Story was performed as part of NT Connections in 2008.
She did a writers’ attachment at the Royal National Theatre Studio in 1996.
Manor by Moira Buffini | National Theatre | Teaser Trailer
Stranded together, an explosive mix of people must survive the weather, and each other. Manor is a darkly comic new play by Moira Buffini: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/manor
07 Apr - 15 July 2020
Directed by Fiona Buffini, the cast of Manor at the National Theatre includes Ben Daniels, Nancy Caroll, Michele Austin and David Hargreaves.
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published: 04 Mar 2020
Tonic Celebrates Moira Buffini
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published: 01 Mar 2017
DINNER by Moira Buffini at Wasatch Theatre Company
Wasatch Theatre Company is pleased to present the regional premiere of Moira Buffini’s Dinner, the Oliver-nominated play. If you’re hungry for a well-executed, superbly-acted play with decidedly adult appeal, this is your ticket.
Wasatch’s production features Stacey Jenson as Paige, and Nicholas Dunn as her husband, Lars. Ali Lente stars as Lars' (maybe?) mistress, Wynne. Daniel Cooper plays Lars’ friend Hal, and Alyssa Franks plays Hal’s new wife, Sian. Rounding out the cast are Carlos Nobeleza Posas’s Mike and Gordon Dunn.
Dinner is directed by Jim Martin, with the able support of Rosemary Fernandez (stage manager), Kit Anderton (set design), Michael Nielsen (costumes), Brittany Restrepo (light design), and Daniel Torrence (prop design).
Dinner opens Friday, April 21st and run Friday...
published: 30 Mar 2017
Moira Buffini in conversation with Alistair Owen
Screenwriter and WGGB member Moira Buffini talks to Alistair Owen, author of 'The Art of Screen Adaptation', about the challenges and pleasures of dramatising John Preston's acclaimed novel 'The Dig' for the big screen. A WGGB Zoom event in partnership with Creative Essentials which took place in February 2021.
Stranded together, an explosive mix of people must survive the weather, and each other. Manor is a darkly comic new play by Moira Buffini: https://www.nationalt...
Stranded together, an explosive mix of people must survive the weather, and each other. Manor is a darkly comic new play by Moira Buffini: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/manor
07 Apr - 15 July 2020
Directed by Fiona Buffini, the cast of Manor at the National Theatre includes Ben Daniels, Nancy Caroll, Michele Austin and David Hargreaves.
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At the National, we make world-class theatre that is entertaining, challenging and inspiring. And we make it for everyone.
We aim to reach the widest possible audience, to be open, inclusive and diverse, and as national as possible. We stage a broad range of productions in London and tour extensively across the UK. Our international activity puts some of the nation's leading artists on the world stage, with productions playing on Broadway and touring across the globe.
We invest in the future of theatre, have an extensive nationwide learning and participation programme, and create ambitious new works of participatory theatre. We extend our reach through digital programmes including National Theatre Live, which broadcasts some of the best of British theatre to over 2,500 venues in 65 countries.
Stranded together, an explosive mix of people must survive the weather, and each other. Manor is a darkly comic new play by Moira Buffini: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/manor
07 Apr - 15 July 2020
Directed by Fiona Buffini, the cast of Manor at the National Theatre includes Ben Daniels, Nancy Caroll, Michele Austin and David Hargreaves.
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At the National, we make world-class theatre that is entertaining, challenging and inspiring. And we make it for everyone.
We aim to reach the widest possible audience, to be open, inclusive and diverse, and as national as possible. We stage a broad range of productions in London and tour extensively across the UK. Our international activity puts some of the nation's leading artists on the world stage, with productions playing on Broadway and touring across the globe.
We invest in the future of theatre, have an extensive nationwide learning and participation programme, and create ambitious new works of participatory theatre. We extend our reach through digital programmes including National Theatre Live, which broadcasts some of the best of British theatre to over 2,500 venues in 65 countries.
Wasatch Theatre Company is pleased to present the regional premiere of Moira Buffini’s Dinner, the Oliver-nominated play. If you’re hungry for a well-executed, ...
Wasatch Theatre Company is pleased to present the regional premiere of Moira Buffini’s Dinner, the Oliver-nominated play. If you’re hungry for a well-executed, superbly-acted play with decidedly adult appeal, this is your ticket.
Wasatch’s production features Stacey Jenson as Paige, and Nicholas Dunn as her husband, Lars. Ali Lente stars as Lars' (maybe?) mistress, Wynne. Daniel Cooper plays Lars’ friend Hal, and Alyssa Franks plays Hal’s new wife, Sian. Rounding out the cast are Carlos Nobeleza Posas’s Mike and Gordon Dunn.
Dinner is directed by Jim Martin, with the able support of Rosemary Fernandez (stage manager), Kit Anderton (set design), Michael Nielsen (costumes), Brittany Restrepo (light design), and Daniel Torrence (prop design).
Dinner opens Friday, April 21st and run Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through May 7th at the Rose Wagner Studio Theatre (138 West 300 South). Friday and Saturday shows are at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday shows are at 2:00 p.m. Reservations (er….tickets) for Dinner are available by calling ArtTix at 801-355-2728 or by going online to www.arttix.org.
There will be a special ‘Just Desserts’ performance on Saturday, April 22. For this performance, tickets are $30.00 and include desserts and other treats, as well as the chance to mingle with the cast and crew.
Wasatch Theatre Company is celebrating its 19th year. Please join us for Dinner and check out our website at www.wasatchtheatre.org.
Wasatch Theatre Company is pleased to present the regional premiere of Moira Buffini’s Dinner, the Oliver-nominated play. If you’re hungry for a well-executed, superbly-acted play with decidedly adult appeal, this is your ticket.
Wasatch’s production features Stacey Jenson as Paige, and Nicholas Dunn as her husband, Lars. Ali Lente stars as Lars' (maybe?) mistress, Wynne. Daniel Cooper plays Lars’ friend Hal, and Alyssa Franks plays Hal’s new wife, Sian. Rounding out the cast are Carlos Nobeleza Posas’s Mike and Gordon Dunn.
Dinner is directed by Jim Martin, with the able support of Rosemary Fernandez (stage manager), Kit Anderton (set design), Michael Nielsen (costumes), Brittany Restrepo (light design), and Daniel Torrence (prop design).
Dinner opens Friday, April 21st and run Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through May 7th at the Rose Wagner Studio Theatre (138 West 300 South). Friday and Saturday shows are at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday shows are at 2:00 p.m. Reservations (er….tickets) for Dinner are available by calling ArtTix at 801-355-2728 or by going online to www.arttix.org.
There will be a special ‘Just Desserts’ performance on Saturday, April 22. For this performance, tickets are $30.00 and include desserts and other treats, as well as the chance to mingle with the cast and crew.
Wasatch Theatre Company is celebrating its 19th year. Please join us for Dinner and check out our website at www.wasatchtheatre.org.
Screenwriter and WGGB member Moira Buffini talks to Alistair Owen, author of 'The Art of Screen Adaptation', about the challenges and pleasures of dramatising J...
Screenwriter and WGGB member Moira Buffini talks to Alistair Owen, author of 'The Art of Screen Adaptation', about the challenges and pleasures of dramatising John Preston's acclaimed novel 'The Dig' for the big screen. A WGGB Zoom event in partnership with Creative Essentials which took place in February 2021.
Screenwriter and WGGB member Moira Buffini talks to Alistair Owen, author of 'The Art of Screen Adaptation', about the challenges and pleasures of dramatising John Preston's acclaimed novel 'The Dig' for the big screen. A WGGB Zoom event in partnership with Creative Essentials which took place in February 2021.
Stranded together, an explosive mix of people must survive the weather, and each other. Manor is a darkly comic new play by Moira Buffini: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/manor
07 Apr - 15 July 2020
Directed by Fiona Buffini, the cast of Manor at the National Theatre includes Ben Daniels, Nancy Caroll, Michele Austin and David Hargreaves.
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At the National, we make world-class theatre that is entertaining, challenging and inspiring. And we make it for everyone.
We aim to reach the widest possible audience, to be open, inclusive and diverse, and as national as possible. We stage a broad range of productions in London and tour extensively across the UK. Our international activity puts some of the nation's leading artists on the world stage, with productions playing on Broadway and touring across the globe.
We invest in the future of theatre, have an extensive nationwide learning and participation programme, and create ambitious new works of participatory theatre. We extend our reach through digital programmes including National Theatre Live, which broadcasts some of the best of British theatre to over 2,500 venues in 65 countries.
Wasatch Theatre Company is pleased to present the regional premiere of Moira Buffini’s Dinner, the Oliver-nominated play. If you’re hungry for a well-executed, superbly-acted play with decidedly adult appeal, this is your ticket.
Wasatch’s production features Stacey Jenson as Paige, and Nicholas Dunn as her husband, Lars. Ali Lente stars as Lars' (maybe?) mistress, Wynne. Daniel Cooper plays Lars’ friend Hal, and Alyssa Franks plays Hal’s new wife, Sian. Rounding out the cast are Carlos Nobeleza Posas’s Mike and Gordon Dunn.
Dinner is directed by Jim Martin, with the able support of Rosemary Fernandez (stage manager), Kit Anderton (set design), Michael Nielsen (costumes), Brittany Restrepo (light design), and Daniel Torrence (prop design).
Dinner opens Friday, April 21st and run Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through May 7th at the Rose Wagner Studio Theatre (138 West 300 South). Friday and Saturday shows are at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday shows are at 2:00 p.m. Reservations (er….tickets) for Dinner are available by calling ArtTix at 801-355-2728 or by going online to www.arttix.org.
There will be a special ‘Just Desserts’ performance on Saturday, April 22. For this performance, tickets are $30.00 and include desserts and other treats, as well as the chance to mingle with the cast and crew.
Wasatch Theatre Company is celebrating its 19th year. Please join us for Dinner and check out our website at www.wasatchtheatre.org.
Screenwriter and WGGB member Moira Buffini talks to Alistair Owen, author of 'The Art of Screen Adaptation', about the challenges and pleasures of dramatising John Preston's acclaimed novel 'The Dig' for the big screen. A WGGB Zoom event in partnership with Creative Essentials which took place in February 2021.
Moira Buffini (born 1965) is an English dramatist, director, and actor.
Career
Buffini was born in Carlisle to Irish parents, and studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths College, London University (1983–86). She subsequently trained as an actor at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. For Jordan, co-written with Anna Reynolds in 1992, she won a Time Out Award for her performance and Writers' Guild Award for Best Fringe play. Her 1997 play Gabriel was performed at Soho theatre, winning the LWT Plays on Stage award. Her 1999 play Silence earned Buffini the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for best English-language play by a woman. Loveplay followed at the RSC in 2001, then Dinner at the National Theatre in 2003 which transferred to the West End and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy.
Buffini wrote Dying For It, a free adaptation of Nikolai Erdman's classic, The Suicide, for the Almeida in 2007. She followed it with Marianne Dreams a dance play with choreographer Will Tuckett, based on Catherine Storr's book. Her play for young people, A Vampire Story was performed as part of NT Connections in 2008.
She did a writers’ attachment at the Royal National Theatre Studio in 1996.
This was reflected too in new publishing; playwright Moira Buffini impressed with her rich and immersive debut, Songlight (Faber), set in a near future world where some humans have developed a telepathic sixth sense and are persecuted for it.
In Iceland the Christmas book flood, or jolabokaflod, is a tradition celebrated on December 24...Happy reading. Age 2+. Fuaimeanna na Feirme. Sounds of the Farm by Risteard Mac Liam, illustrated by Anna Shabaltii ... Our World ... Songlight by Moira Buffini ... .
Published ...Laura Ford, FifthWord’s artistic director, commented, “the struggle for regional provision means there’s a real danger of the next Sonali Bhattacharyya, Moira Buffini, James Graham or Mufaro Makubika being lost to East Midlands stages ... .
It’s an unusually muggy afternoon when I meet Moira Buffini in a Dublin city-centre hotel ... A renowned playwright and screenwriter, Buffini (59) has built a career accessing the inner lives of characters real and imagined.
“In Northaven, songlight is a burden; it’s treacherous ... The more interesting question is whether it’s handled well ... yes. Songlight (Faber, £8.99), the first in a planned trilogy, is the prose debut from veteran playwright and screenwriter Moira Buffini.
“Young adult novel” is often code for “bad fiction for teenagers”. Not this time, though ...Human civilisation has wiped itself out and the scattered, isolated societies that remain are at war ... Culture. Books. Related articles. CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK ... .
Moira Buffini ... The 2002 play Dinner by Moira Buffini, (originally reviewed here) is set in the dining room of a rich couple’s mansion over the course of a darkly comic dinner party, where old anger, ...
A rich tale of telepathic teens from Moira Buffini, stories of the power of sisterhood and female friendships, and a French exchange trip gone comically wrong Playwright and screenwriter Moira Buffini ...
With a legacy that includes plays as diverse as Moira Buffini’s Handbagged, Ayad Akhtar’s Invisible Hand, and several collaborations with Zadie Smith, there are few creatives out there who could say ...
Both are ideal for 3-5s ... The playwright Moira Buffini’s debut Songlight (Faber, £8.99, 13+) is a fabulous mash-up of John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids and The Handmaid’s Tale ... Buffini addresses urgent topics from misogyny and homophobia to genocide.
Every year, Northeast Community College theater students take the lead role in the fourth play of the school year. But that doesn’t mean the public isn’t needed ... The play by Moira Buffini will be directed by 15-year veteran instructor Adam Peterson ... 12.
She has won a host of awards including an Olivier Award for her production of Moira Buffini’s Handbagged and was awarded an MBE in 2017. National Theatre chair Sir Damon Buffini said she had "a proven ...
London... Her production of the play "Handbagged" by Moira Buffini won an Olivier Award -- one of drama's most prestigious accolades -- for Outstanding Achievement in an AffiliateTheatre in 2014 ... Of course that is significant." ... .