Stephen Greenhorn has been a professional dramatist for theatre, radio and television since 1989. His plays have been produced by a wide variety of theatre companies across the UK and around the world. Notable successes include The Salt Wound for 7:84, Passing Places for the Traverse (later productions at Pitlochry and Dundee Rep), and the award-winning musical Sunshine on Leith for Dundee Rep, which successfully toured the UK and Scotland 2007-10 and has received wonderful revivals at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Stephen’s feature adaptation of Sunshine on Leith, which starred Peter Mullan, Jane Horrocks and George MacKay, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews, and enjoyed a UK-wide release.
Stephen created the popular long running series River City for BBC Scotland and received a BAFTA Scotland nomination for writing the penultimate episode of Around the World in Eighty Days for Slim Film & TV.
His other TV work includes the six-part drama series Glasgow Kiss for BBC1, the feature–length adaptation of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea for BBC4, the feature length factually based BBC drama Derailed and the critically-acclaimed five-part series Marchlands for ITV. He has written episodes for series including Doctor Who (BBC), Where The Heart Is (ITV), Dalgliesh (Channel 5) and is co-credited on two episodes of Dept. Q (Netflix).
He is currently working on plays for Sheffield Theatres, The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh and the Traverse Theatre.
Stephen Greenhorn is represented by Frances Arnold