Kieran is an award winning writer, performer, and theatre maker based in Glasgow.

He is currently working on a number of projects across film, TV and theatre.

Kieran’s work is published by Methuen and can be found here.

Film Credits:

BEATS 2019
Based on Kieran’s play of the same name
Co-written and directed by Brian Welsh
Rosetta Productions/Sixteen Films/Wild Bunch/Altitude/BFI/ Creative Scotland.
Exec Producer Steven Soderbergh
BIFA Nominated for Best Debut Screenplay, WGGB nominated for Best Screenplay.
“BEATS is more than just a big-screen rave: it’s funny and euphoric, heartfelt and harrowing” The Sunday Times
**** The Guardian, **** The Times **** Evening Standard **** Time Out **** The Scotsman

Theatre Credits:

ADULTS 2023
Traverse Theatre
Directed by Roxanna Silbert
“It deftly grasps when to tickle out a laugh, and when to whip out something serious: there are lacerating lines about the cost of living crisis and the gig economy…  The closing image of hard-won embrace is as beautiful as it is desolate.” – **** The Telegraph
***** Broadway World ***** Lost in Theatreland **** The Times **** WhatsOnStage

The Enemy 2021
National Theatre of Scotland
Directed by Finn Den Hertog
“Hurley’s adaptation for National Theatre of Scotland, set in the 21st century, feels fresh and immediate” – **** The Guardian
***** Theatre Scotland **** The Observer **** The Scotsman

MOUTHPIECE
Soho Theatre – April 2019
Traverse Theatre – 2018
Directed by Orla O’Loughlin
“Gripping, truthful and engaged … Mouthpiece reaffirms Kieran Hurley’s place as a hugely talented playwright for today”  ***** The Stage
**** The Guardian, The Scotsman, The Herald

SQUARE GO 2018
Paines Plough Roundabout Theatre, Edinburgh Festival
Co-written with Gary McNair
FRINGE FIRST AWARD WINNER 2018
“funniest show of the festival… Hilarious and human high-school two-hander that’s just brilliant fun” ***** The Stage

A SIX-INCH LAYER OF TOPSOIL AND THE FACT IT RAINS May 2018
Verbatim theatre
Perth Theatre tour
“Fascinating verbatim play” The Stage
“Kieran Hurley’s new touring show for Perth Theatre has that special quality of listening to the voices of a community, and reflecting it back to itself” **** Scotsman

HEADS UP
Show And Tell
UK tour February – March 2018
UK tour February – June 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016
Written and performed by Kieran Hurley
FRINGE FIRST AWARD WINNER 2016
CATS BEST NEW PLAY AWARD WINNER 2017
**** The Guardian, The Independent, The Scotsman, The Sunday Times

AN INJURY July 2017
Ovalhouse Theatre
Directed by Alex Swift

BEATS
Show And Tell
Soho Theatre 2013
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012
Written and performed by Kieran Hurley
CATS BEST NEW PLAY AWARD WINNER 2012
“A tremendous piece of storytelling that takes us back to 1994… One of the best shows of the Edinburgh Festival last year” **** The Guardian
“An impressive piece of storytelling” **** The Times

RANTIN 2014
National Theatre of Scotland
Scottish Tour
**** The Guardian

CHALK FARM
Co-written by AJ Taudevin
International tour 2014 – produced by ThickSkin
Òran Mór 2012
“Brilliant, sharp, poetic, passionate, full of searing insight into the politics of blame” **** The Scotsman

HITCH
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2010

Radio Credits:

EDINBURGH August 2018
BBC Radio 4
15 minute radio play
Written and performed by Kieran Hurley

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