Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright, teacher, campaigner and dramaturg. He was Artistic Director of touring theatre company Tamasha from 2013 to 2021, and is currently Artistic Director of Applied Stories.
His plays include: Protection (Soho Theatre, London, 2003); How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (Sheffield Crucible, 2007; winner of the John Whiting Award); and Life Raft, after Georg Kaiser (Bristol Old Vic, 2015).
His first two plays for teenagers, Locked In and We Are Shadows, were produced by Half Moon Young People's Theatre in 2006 and 2008 and toured nationally, the first in a long track record of writing for young people.
As writer-in-residence at Mulberry School for Girls in Tower Hamlets, he co-founded Mulberry Theatre Company, for whom he has written seven plays. Mehndi Night (2007), Stolen Secrets (2008), and The Unravelling (2009) all premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, while The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping premiered at Southwark Playhouse in 2010. All are published by Nick Hern Books in The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays.
His fifth play for Mulberry School, The Dream Collector, was the inaugural production in Mulberry's new onsite theatre in October 2013, while the sixth, The Domino Effect, premiered at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Both are published in The Domino Effect and other plays for teenagers.
He also writes for radio and has had three Afternoon Plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 including The Good Listener, a returning series set inside Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
As well as writing plays, Fin also has many years of experience teaching playwriting. Whilst Associate Artist at Tamasha he founded Schoolwrights, the UK's first playwrights-in-schools training scheme. As Artistic Director, he launched Tamasha Playwrights, a new agency of playwrights-for-hire, offering diverse role models for young people's projects in inner-city schools.
