Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan (born 1968) is a playwright and author, based in the north-east of England. He was writer-in-residence at Newcastles Live Theatre Company. Whilst there, Live staged his plays, Bones and Noir. Both of these plays have displayed Straughans talent for writing dark, twisted and witty stories.His first ambition was to be a professional musician and he achieved this while playing bass guitar with Newcastle-based band The Honest Johns. He spent four years touring and recording with the band through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s before leaving to take up full-time education at Newcastle University. While Peter was a student he was also a member of the band Cactusman. Peter wrote the song Killer, which appeared on the CD album North of London, a collection of music by North East bands released through Newcastle Arts.Straughan co-wrote the 2006 feature film, Mrs Ratcliffes Revolution and adapted Toby Youngs memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. He is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, a screenplay he wrote in collaboration with his late wife Bridget OConnor. OConnor died of cancer, aged 49, in 2010, before the film was released. They were awarded a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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