Duncan Macmillan is a writer and director. 

Duncan is a former Writer in Residence at Paines Plough and the Royal Exchange Theatre. He has written extensively for theatre in addition to working in radio, television and film.

Awards include Best New Play at the Off West End Awards, 2013; the Big Ambition Award, Old Vic 2009; the Pearson Prize, 2008 and runner-up in the JMK Directing Award, 2010. Duncan was also the recipient of two awards in the inaugural Bruntwood Playwriting Competition, 2006 and his work with director Katie Mitchell has been selected for Theatertreffen and the Avignon Festival.

Duncan has written:

Full Length Works

THE FORBIDDEN ZONE (2014), Saltzburg Festival

NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR (2013/14), Headlong / Nottingham Playhouse (adapt. George Orwell), co-adapted with Rob Icke.

EVERY BRILLIANT THING (2013/14), Paines Plough / Pentabus Theatre.

REISE DURCH DIE NACHT (2012/13), Schauspielhaus Köln (adapt. Friederike Mayröcker), created with Katie Mitchell & Lyndsey Turner. Selected for Theatertreffen 2013 and Avignon Festival 2013.
 

LUNGS (2011/12), Roundabout Season Paines Plough & SheffieldTheatres  Studio Theatre, Washington DC, USA. Winner of Best New Play at the Off West End Awards and the CBS Outstanding Drama Award. Nominated for Outstanding Play at the Helen Hayes Awards, Washington DC and Best New Play Theatre Awards UK 2012.
 

DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR (2011), Finborough Theatre, London (adapt. Ödön von Horváth). Nominated for four Off West End Awards
 

PLATFORM (2010), Old Vic Community Company, Old Vic Tunnels (co-written with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm).

AN OBJECT (2008), LATER, Paines Plough, Oval House (co-written with Mike Barlett).

MONSTER (2007), Manchester Royal Exchange. Winner of two Awards in the inaugural Bruntwood Playwriting Competition. Nominated for TMA Best New Play and MEN Best New Play Awards.
 

THE MOST HUMANE WAY TO KILL A LOBSTER (2005), Theatre 503.
 

Shorts:

SKYSCRAPER (2010), Old Vic New Voices/Public Theatre, New York.
 

DONUTS (2010), Come to Where I’m From, Paines Plough / Oxford Playhouse.
 

CRUNCH & SLEEVE NOTES (2009), Latitude Festival.

NORTHFIELDS (2009), Theatre 503 / TheatreVoice, Latitude Festival.
 

FEAR AND MISERY IN THE THIRD TERM (2008), LATER, Paines Plough, Trafalgar Studios (co-written with Mike Bartlett, Chloe Moss, Ben Musgrave and Dan Rebellato).

FLAMINGOS (2006), Nabokov, Latitude Festival.

MY LITTLE HEART DROPPED IN COFFEE (2006), Wild Lunch Paines Plough / Graeae / Young Vic Theatre.