Moira Buffini

Moira Buffini

Writer

Plays include: Oliver Award-winning Handbagged (Tricycle); Welcome to Thebes, Wonder.land  – with Damon Albarn, Dinner – Olivier nominated (National Theatre); Dying for It – adapted from Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide (Almeida); A Vampire Story (National Theatre Connections); Loveplay (RSC); Silence – Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (Birmingham Rep); Gabriel – LWT Plays on Stage and Meyer Whitworth Awards (the Soho); Blavatsky’s Tower (Machine Room); Jordan –  with Anna Reynolds – Writers’ Guild Award (The Gate). Both Dinner and Handbagged have enjoyed West End transfers.

Screenplays include: Jane Eyre, directed by Cary Fukanaga; Tamara Drewe, directed by Stephen Frears; Byzantium, directed by Neil Jordan.

She is co-creator and lead writer of TV series Harlots and is currently filming the third season.