Secret Life of Humans (NHB Modern Plays)

David Byrne is a playwright, theatre director and Executive Director of London’s New Diorama Theatre. His first play won the Writers’ Guild and List Magazine Awards for Drama in 2014. His other plays include, Secret Life of Humans and a radical adaptation of George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, both of which played to sold out audiences at the Edinburgh Festival and in London, receiving four and five star reviews in the national press, and both transferring Off-Broadway.

David is also a comedy writer, developing both solo projects and joint scripts with writing partner, Richard Hurt. The Party was optioned by BBC comedy, after winning their nationwide Laughing Stock contest. He is the recipient of several Peter Brook Awards, the Off-West End Award for Best Artistic Director, the Enfant Terribles Prize, and was voted one of The Stage’s 100 most influential people working in theatre.