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Buffini advocates big, imaginative plays rather than naturalistic soap opera dramas, and is a founder member of the Monsterists, a group of playwrights who promote new writing of large scale work in the British theatre.
Dec 27, 2014 · Moira Buffini, whose adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s “The Suicide,” retitled “Dying for It,” will open next month at the Atlantic Theater Company, says that her preferred tone is...
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Jan 28, 2021 · Buffini is an English dramatist who began writing plays when she was only 14 and has bucked against the traditional (read: white, male) makeup of that world by producing bold and imaginative scripts like the musical Wonder.land, Alice reimagined for the digital age, and a re-gendered Macbeth.
Moira Buffini was born in 1965 in Cheshire, England, UK. She is a writer and producer, known for Jane Eyre (2011), The Dig (2021) and Byzantium (2012).
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Mar 11, 2021 · To celebrate Jane Eyre ’s 10-year anniversary, we spoke with screenwriter Moira Buffini about why she was so eager to adapt Brontë’s novel, what made the production so special, and why its heroine speaks to our time.
May 14, 2010 · Moira Buffini’s “Gabriel,” a juicy romantic melodrama set during World War II, opened in a taut, superlatively acted production at the Atlantic Theater Company.
Apr 8, 2014 · Moira Buffini: Margaret Thatcher handbagged me into respecting her. Researching my play about the divisive Tory leader showed me how her tragedy was derived from the very thing that gave her...