Prof Zinnie Harris

Professor of Playwriting and Screenwriting

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 1745
Email
zkh2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location
The Byre Theatre

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Biography

Zinnie Harris is a multi-award-winning playwright and theatre director. She splits her time between ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø University, where she is the Professor of Playwriting and Screenwriting and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, where she is the Associate Artistic Director.

THEATRE CREDITSÌý
Writing credits include Macbeth (an Undoing) (Royal Lyceum Theatre / Rose Theatre / Theatre for a New Audience, New York) The Duchess (of Malfi) (Royal Lyceum Theatre, and Trafalgar Theatre, London West End, The Scent of Roses, Rhinoceros,  (all Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); This Restless House (Citizens Theatre / National Theatre of Scotland,, Edinburgh International Festival), Meet Me At Dawn (Traverse Theatre / Edinburgh International Festival), How To Hold Your Breath, Nightingale and Chase (Royal Court Theatre), The Wheel, Julie Ìý(National Theatre of Scotland), Further than the Furthest Thing (Royal National Theatre/Tron Theatre); Midwinter, ³§´Ç±ô²õ³Ù¾±³¦±ð (¸é³§°ä); ¹ó²¹±ô±ô (Traverse Theatre/RSC); By Many Wounds (Hampstead Theatre); A Doll’s House (Donmar Warehouse). 

Directing credits include Macbeth (an undoing), The Scent of Roses, The Duchess (of Malfi), A Number (all Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), Midwinter, Solstice (RSC), Gut (Traverse Theatre / National Theatre of Scotland), Tracks of the Winter Bear (Traverse Theatre), The Garden (Sound Festival), Gilt (7:84), Dealers Choice (Tron Theatre) Ìý

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Partners in Crime, Spooks, (both BBC1) Richard Is My Boyfriend, Born With Two Mothers (Channel 4)

FILM

Writer and Director for her short film A Glimpse.   Ìý

AWARDSÌý
Zinnie has received multiple playwriting and directing awards including the 1999 Peggy Ramsay Award, John Whiting Award, Arts Foundation Fellowship award, five Fringe First Awards and a Herald Angel. Her short film A Glimpse won best short drama at SMHAF Festival. She was joint winner of the 2011 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award.  Zinnie won the Scottish Critics Award for Best Director for her production of A Number at The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, and Best New Play for This Restless House.ÌýMacbeth (an undoing) was nominated for four Drama Desk Awards in New York 2024 including Outstanding Adaptation.

Selected publications and performances

  • Harris, Z., 24 Jan 2024, London: Faber and Faber. 90 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Harris, Z., 3 Mar 2022, London: Faber and Faber. 61 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Harris, Z., 8 Jan 2019, London: Faber and Faber. 481 p. (Faber contemporary classics)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Harris, Z., May 2019

    Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

  • Harris, Z. K., 23 May 2019, London: Faber and Faber. 129 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Harris, Z., 3 Aug 2017, London: Faber and Faber. 77 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Harris, Z., 5 Oct 2017, London: Faber and Faber. 172 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Harris, Z., Sept 2017

    Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

  • Harris, Z. K., 21 Apr 2016, London: Faber and Faber. 321 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Harris, Z. K., 15 Apr 2016

    Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

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