Moira Buffini
Moira Buffini, born in 1965 in Carlisle to Irish parents, is an English dramatist, director, and actor who studied at Goldsmiths and trained at the Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Her acclaimed theatrical works include Gabriel (1997), which won the LWT Plays on Stage award, and Silence (1999), earning the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Her play Dinner (2003) transferred to the West End and received an Olivier nomination.
A founder member of the Monsterists, she advocates for imaginative, large-scale theatre over naturalism.
Buffini is also a prolific screenwriter, adapting Tamara Drewe (2010), Jane Eyre (2011), and her own play into the film Byzantium (2013).
Songlight is her debut novel.
