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Steven Canny is an
Executive Producer Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights o ...
for
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Comedy and has written a number of plays.


Education

Canny attended Filton High School, Bristol, before going to
St. Brendan's Sixth Form College St Brendan's is a state funded sixth form college located in Brislington, Bristol, England. Over 1700 students study A-levels, BTECs & GCSEs on one purpose-built, university style campus. History St Brendan's was founded by the Irish Christian ...
, Bristol, and then
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.


Career

Canny began his career as a
theatre director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...
and writer. He was associate director for theatre company Complicite from 1999–2004 where productions included Mnemonic, The Noise of Time, The Elephant Vanishes, Light and he was also Associate Director on Al Pacino's
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui ''The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui'' (german: Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui, links=no), subtitled "A parable play", is a 1941 play by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. It chronicles the rise of Arturo Ui, a fictional 1930s Chicago m ...
. He was the dramaturg on Complicite's production of Measure for Measure at the National Theatre. In 2009 he won the Sony Gold Drama Award with ''
Mr Larkin's Awkward Day ''Mr Larkin's Awkward Day'' is a comedy radio play by Chris Harrald, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 29 April 2008 as the ''Afternoon Play'', repeated on 25 January 2010. The producer was Steven Canny. It won the Gold Award for Drama at the ...
'', a comedy radio play by Chris Harrald, broadcast on
BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
on Tuesday, 29 April 2008 as the
Afternoon Play ''Drama'' (formerly ''Afternoon Theatre'', ''Afternoon Drama,'' ''Afternoon Play'') is a BBC Radio 4 radio drama, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm. Generally each play is 45 minutes in duration and approximately 190 new plays are broadcast each ...
. The Sony Gold citation said: "Assured direction, excellent performances and concise, skilfully-researched writing all made this deceptively straightforward story a masterpiece. Funny and touching by turns, a single, seemingly insignificant incident in the life of
Philip Larkin Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, '' The North Ship'', was published in 1945, followed by two novels, '' Jill'' (1946) and '' A Girl in Winter'' (1 ...
brought out the humanity and humour of a poet whose personal life is not commonly associated with either." In 2010 he won the Sony Gold Drama Award with ''People Snogging in Public Places'' by
Jack Thorne Jack Thorne FRSL (born 6 December 1978) is a British playwright, television writer, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for writing the stage play ''Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'', the films ''Wonder'' and '' Enola Holmes'', an ...
. It was broadcast on Radio 3's The Wire. The Sony Gold citation said: "The judges described this as a wonderfully written and performed, highly original piece of radio drama in which the production perfectly mirrored the subject. Painful and funny, it was a bold exciting listen." The production was also shortlisted for the 2010 Prix Italia and the Tinniswood Award. Canny was listed as the Executive Producer of the winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Sony Awards for Best Comedy in 2011. He was Executive Producer of the pan-BBC initiative for the Edinburgh Festival in 2011. Canny was Executive Producer of more than 300 hours of comedy on Radio 4 including: News Quiz, Tom Basden's Party, Rudy's Rare Records, Radio 4's Advent Calendar and The Show What You Wrote. Plays written include: A Dulditch Angel, Spyski (revived as The Importance of Being Honest), Origins, No Wise Men, The Hound of the Baskervilles The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society, and The Time Machine; A Comedy. By Spring 2023 The Hound of the Baskervilles has had more than 200 theatrical productions worldwide with the majority being in the US. In September 2013, the BBC announced that they had appointed Canny as Executive Producer, BBC Comedy Scotland. There he has been the Executive Producer of ''Miller's Mountain'' (winner Scottish BAFTA Best Comedy 2014), ''Bob Servant'' (winner Best Comedy RTS Scotland Award), ''Don't Drop the Baton'', ''Comedy Playhouse: Where it All Began'', ''What's Funny about the Indyref'', ''Still Game Live'', Radges, ''Sketchland'', ''Two Doors Down'' (winner Best Comedy RTS Scotland Award), Mrs Brown's Boys, Gary: Tank Commander Election Special, Stop/Start, Porridge, Pumped, British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves, A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, Lost Sitcoms and Still Game series 7, 8 & 9.


Personal life

Canny is married to theatre director
Orla O'Loughlin Orla O'Loughlin is a British theatre director currently the Vice Principal & Director of Drama at Guildhall School of Music & Drama Education Orla trained at the National Theatre and National Theatre Studio. She has a B.A (Hons) in Theatre and ...
and they have two children.


References

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