Stephen Greenhorn

Stephen Greenhorn is a Scottish playwright and screenwriter. He is the creator of the BBC Scotland soap opera River City.

Greenhorn’s plays have been produced by a wide variety of theatre companies across the UK as well as on BBC Radio and several have been published.

Original or adapted works for the stage include: The Salt Wound (1994), Dissent (1998), and Gilt (2003) for 7:84 theatre group; Passing Places (1997) and The Ballad of Crazy Paolo (2001) for the Traverse Theatre; Sleeping Around (1998) with Abi Morgan, Mark Ravenhill and Hilary Fannin for Paines Plough touring theatre and King Matt (2001) for TAG Theatre Company.

Passing Places won the author a nomination for Scottish Writer of the Year in 1998 and has since been translated many times and produced worldwide.

In 2007 he created Sunshine on Leith for Dundee Rep – a musical featuring the songs of The Proclaimers. The show won the TMA Award for Best Musical that year and has toured several times since. A film version was released in 2013. Greenhorn adapted it for the big screen. The film was shot in Glasgow and Edinburgh in late 2012 starring Peter Mullan and Jane Horrocks and was directed by Dexter Fletcher.