John Binnie is a playwright/director.
He has written over fifteen plays, many of them for Clyde Unity Theatre.
He has won three Edinburgh Fringe First awards, the Independent Theatre award, and a Scotland on Sunday Paper boat award.

Favourite projects include JOURNEY a dance drama with 50 Namibian singers and 70 Scottish performers, BABYCAKES an adadptation of Armistead Maupin's San Franciscan novel, and BEYOND THE RAINBOW on stage and for BBC Radio 4, about Judy Garland's 1951 visit to Galsgow and the shy waiter who served her breakfast.
He is currently writing a new musical HEART SONGS about a Scottish mother, her ill son, and the Zimbabwian doctor who looks after them.

His aerial drama LOVE INDEED, which fuses the love affairs betweeen Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton with Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra tours the UK in September /October. His outreach project WORDS ARE NEVER WASTED with Dunfermline's Out Of the Dark mental health project also tours Scotland in October.
John currently teaches playwriting to many different groups, including schools in Aberdeenshire, adults with learning difficulties in Alloa, and mature writers on Rothesay.

WEB LINKS

www.scottishbooktrust.com/contacts/john-binnie

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