Craig Baxter

Craig is a dramatist with thirty years of experience writing primarily for the stage but also for screen and radio. Often he collaborates with academics and experts to bring their work and ideas to a wider public. He has written audio dramas for the Darwin Correspondence Project and the multi-award-winning The Sound of Anger for the Centre for the History of the Emotions. To give a flavour of this collaborative approach, Craig has worked with sleep physiologists on Somniloquy (Hotbed Festival, Soho Theatre), psychiatrists on Pictures of You (Cambridge Science Festival), healthcare improvement professionals on Not Quite Right (THIS.Institute), US Army families on Just a Joke (KMC Onstage, Kaiserslautern) and the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion on Let Newton Be! (Cambridge and El Paso). He has worked with community theatre projects, most notably a trilogy of plays for Barking and Dagenham: Big Bang, Relics and Spearcarriers (Arc Theatre).

More commercially focussed work includes, for the stage, Lady Anna: All at Sea (Cambridge Arts Theatre, Bath’s Theatre Royal and Number One Tour), Hard Sell (Divadlo 6-16, Prague) and The Ministry of Pleasure (Theatre503; optioned by Handmade Films); radio dramas Monogamy (Radio 4) and Like Confessing a Murder (BBC World Service); and several TV drama documentaries, including Eight Days that Made Rome (Channel 5) and Crimewatch File (BBC1).

His play The Altruists won the fourth STAGE International Script Competition for the best new play about science or technology.

Beyond writing, Craig works regularly in academic publishing and teaching dramatic writing.