Books By Brendan Murray - Author

The youngest of five children, Brendan grew up in Salford, Lancashire before training as an actor and working for ten years in TIE, fringe, Rep and commercial theatre. From 1982 to 1985 he was Head of Education at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry and in 1989/90, writer-in-residence at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield – where his playwriting career really began. Since then he has divided his time between writing, directing and teaching, principally at Drama Studio London. In 2002/3 he was the Visiting Gulbenkian Fellow in the Department of Palliative Care & Policy at King’s College Hospital and, from 2003 to 2008, Artistic Director of Oxfordshire (Touring) Theatre Company. He’s written for many of the leading small scale and young people’s theatre companies in the UK as well as well as the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. His plays – of which there are over thirty for people of all ages – have been produced throughout the UK and abroad. How high is Up? has had o