Moses Raine (born 7 August 1984) is a playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Oxford and is the son of the poet and critic

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and Ann Pasternak Slater; he is also a grand nephew of the Russian novelist

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...

. He attended the

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and St. Edward’s School, in Oxford.

Life and career

In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award for his collection of short plays, ''The Survival Handbook''. His next play, ''Shrieks of Laughter'', was commissioned as part of

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's Writers' Attachment Programme, and premiered at the

in 2006. In The Observer (21 May 2006) Susannah Clapp wrote, of both: "Moses Raine wasn't born when Cheek by Jowl was founded, but he's already written a spellbinding clutch of plays: they are like no one else's." In May 2014 Raine’s ''Donkey Heart'' premiered at the Old Red Lion Theater, Islington. This ‘big-hearted new work’ was praised by David Benedict in

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(19 May 2014) as ‘consistently surprising … highly entertaining … The energy and warmth of this unexpected winner deserve far wider attention and exposure.’ ‘This absorbing portrait of contemporary Russian life is full of original, quirkily charming humour’

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(12 May 2014) Moses Raine is currently working on a film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s short story, "Conversation with a Cupboard Man".

References

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