Allan Cubitt
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Born | Prime Suspect II The Fall | 17 August 1954
Allan Cubitt is a British television, film, and theatre writer, director, and producer and former teacher, best known for his work on
Career
In 1988, Cubitt got his start as a playwright where his play, Winter Darkness, won a Thames Television bursary award that funded a year long writer-in-residence program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. During that year, Cubitt wrote and directed The Pool of Bethesda in a production that starred the then Guildhall students Fay Ripley, Naveen Andrews and Peter Wingfield. That production of The Pool of Bethesda won the Thames Television Best New Play and Best Production Awards. It was subsequently restaged at the Orange Tree Theatre with a different cast. This led to scriptwriting work at the BBC.[1][3]
Cubitt's first TV script was 1990's The Land of Dreams, and was the story of an asylum-seeking Black South African struggling with his new life in the UK. The TV show featured the actor
Cubitt's first high-profile work as a writer was for the
1995's The Hanging Gale was a BAFTA nominated mini-series about the Great Famine in Ireland.[1]
In 1997, Cubitt again worked with Helen Mirren on the mini-series,
Also in 1997, Cubitt wrote the film St. Ives, known as All for Love in the United Kingdom, a romance featuring Miranda Richardson that was based on an unfinished work by Robert Louis Stevenson.[1]
In 2000, Cubitt wrote the script adaption for the
In 2002 and 2004, Cubitt worked on two separate Sherlock Holmes projects, an adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, a film project that starred Richard Roxburgh, and an original story called The Case of the Silk Stockings, which starred Rupert Everett.[1]
In 2009, Cubitt adapted the Simon Carr memoir, The Boys Are Back in Town, into the Australian film, The Boys Are Back, that starred Clive Owen and was directed by Scott Hicks.[8]
Cubitt created the 2013 BBC Two television series, The Fall, from an initial pitch in 2009.[9][10] The initial pitch was for twelve episodes, which ended up being split over the first two series.[11] The show, which Cubitt characterises as a psychological drama, stars Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan.[12][13][14] Cubitt wrote and produced the first series, then wrote, produced and directed series two and three. Northern Ireland and Belfast are both a setting, a character, and an integral part of the show, and Cubitt wrote the majority of the show while based there, and cast the majority of the actors from there.[15][16]
In 2018 Cubitt wrote and directed an adaptation of Eugene McCabe's 1993 novel, Death & Nightingales starring Matthew Rhys, Ann Skelly and Jamie Dornan.
Cubitt is also a composer. He wrote a number of songs for 1997's
As of October 2016, Cubitt is working on a new British TV series as well as a play at National Theatre in London.[13]
Filmography
- 1990: The Land of Dreams (Screenplaystrand) – Writer
- 1992: The Countess Alice (Telefilm in the Screenplay strand) – Writer
- 1992: Prime Suspect II (Series) – Writer
- 1995: The Hanging Gale (Miniseries) – Writer
- 1997: Painted Lady(Miniseries) – Writer
- 1998: St. Ives aka All for Love (Telefilm) – Writer
- 2000: Anna Karenina(Miniseries) – Screenplay, Executive Producer
- 2002: Documentary) – Writer (1 episode: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" on disk 1)
- 2002: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Telefilm) – Screenplay, Co-Executive Producer
- 2004: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (Telefilm) – Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- 2005-06: Murphy's Law(Series) – Writer
- 2009: The Boys Are Back (Feature film) – Writer
- 2011: The Runaway (Series) – Writer
- 2013-16: The Fall (Series) – Writer, Director, Creator, Executive Producer
- 2018: Death and Nightingales (Series) - Writer, Director, Executive Producer
- Theatre
- 1988: Winter Darkness at New End Theatre, Hampstead – Writer
- 1990: The Pool of Bethesda at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond – Writer and Director
Awards
- 1990: Pearson Playwrights' Scheme (f/k/a Thames Television Theatre Writers Scheme), Best New Play and Best Production Awards for The Pool of Bethesda
- 1992: The Writers' Guild of Great BritainThe Pool of Bethesda Nominated Best Fringe Theatre Play
- 1992: 28th Golden Prague Awards, Intervision and Eurovision Award for The Land of Dreams
- 1993: Prime Suspect II[18]
- 1993: Prime Suspect II
- 1993: Prime Suspect II
- 1994: Prime Suspect II
- 1995: The Writers' Guild of Great Britain for The Hanging Galenominated Best Original Drama Serial.
- 1996: BAFTA British Academy Television Awards, nominated for TV Drama Serial for The Hanging Gale[19]
- 2010: AFI Award for The Boys Are Back (film) nominated for best adapted screenplay.
- 2014: BAFTA British Academy Television Awards, nominated for Television Mini Series for The Fall[20]
- 2014: Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Television Episode Teleplay for The Fall− "Episode 1"
- 2014: Irish Film & Television Academy | IFTA Best Drama for The Fall
- 2015: London Screenwriters' Festival, Best British Crime Writing for The Fall[21]
- 2020: Irish Film & Television Academy | IFTA Best Drama for Death and Nightingales
Works and publications
- Cubitt, Allan (1988). Winter Darkness.
- Cubitt, Allan (1992). The Pool of Bethesda. London: Warner Chappell Plays. OL 24754004M.
References
- ^ OCLC 4665846312.
- ^ Billen, Andrew (7 September 2016). "TV Preview: The Fall. Q&A with Allan Cubitt, Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan BBC Two". British Film Institute.
- ^ "Allan Cubitt". BBC Writers Room. 24 November 2010. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010.
- ^ "ScreenPlay: The Land of Dreams". BBC Two. 13 March 1991.
- ^ Radish, Christina (30 January 2015). "Series Creator Allan Cubitt Talks The Fall, Writing for Gillian Anderson, and More". Collider.
- ^ a b "The Making of Anna Karenina: Interviews with the screenwriter and the star". Masterpiece Theatre. PBS. 2000.
- ^ Leonard, John (27 April 1998). "In Brief: "Painted Lady"". New York.
- ^ Chang, Justin (15 September 2009). "Review: 'The Boys Are Back'". Variety.
- ^ Cubitt, Allan (7 June 2013). "The Fall's writer Allan Cubitt on women and violence in TV drama". The Guardian.
- ^ "In Conversation With... Allan Cubitt: Creator, The Fall". World Screen. 14 May 2013.
- ^ Holmes, Leilani (31 October 2013). "Making 'The Fall'". London Screenwriters' Festival.
- ^ "'The Fall': The Most Feminist Show on Television". 23 January 2015.
- ^ a b Atad, Corey (28 October 2016). "Why 'The Fall' Is Unlike Any Other Crime Show on Television". Esquire.
- ^ Lawson, Mark (13 May 2013). "Cultural Exchange - Archbishop of Canterbury; Food on stage; The Fall on TV, Front Row". BBC Radio 4.
- ^ "The Fall: BBC NI crime thriller gets second series". BBC News. 28 May 2013.
- ^ "Interview with Allan Cubitt (Creator and Director)". BBC. 19 September 2016.
- Empire.
- ^ "Television Drama Serial in 1993: Nominees". BAFTA Awards. 1993.
- ^ "Television Drama Serial in 1996: Nominees". BAFTA Awards. 1996.
- ^ "2014 Television Mini Series: Nominees". BAFTA Awards. 2014.
- ^ Holmes, Leilani (26 October 2015). "The British Screenwriters' Awards 2015". London Screenwriters' Festival.
External links
- Allan Cubitt at IMDb