Kevin Dyer

Kevin Dyer lives in Wales. He is Artistic Associate at Farnham Maltings and Associate Writer for Action Transport Theatre. He writes, directs, leads writing courses, is a poet and a story-teller. He has been awarded the ‘International Inspirational Playwright Award’ by ASSITEJ at their World Congress in Cape Town, won the UK Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play for Young People, and has been shortlisted a dozen times for other awards. His adaptation of The Hobbit won the UK Theatre Awards ‘Best Production’. He has a long association with YPT. He wrote The Monster Under the Bed, Minotaur and Under the Stairs for them. YPT is currently developing his latest play The Fixing Girl – an adventure in a shed with pirates, buttered toast and a man who isn’t there.