Chris Adams

Christopher Adams is a British-American playwright living and working in London, UK. He was a member of the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers Programme (2011) and Studio Writers Group (2013), the Arcola Theatre’s writing group (2015), and the Orange Tree Collective (2015-2016). He is a member of Playdate. From 2011-2012 he was a US Fulbright Scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, studying modern Chinese playwriting. His full-length and short plays have been performed in London, Birmingham, Dublin, and Shanghai. His plays Lynchburg (2013) and Haunts (2015) were long-listed for the Bruntwood Prize. His adaptation of Antigone toured with Actors of Dionysus in autumn 2017, and his latest play Tumulus, a 'queer noir', opens at VAULT Festival.