Duncan Macmillan (playwright)

Macmillan co-created and wrote the 2020 BBC television drama series Trigonometry with Effie Woods.

Macmillan's play Lungs had a major revival at the Old Vic Theatre in 2019, starring Matt Smith and Claire Foy.

Macmillan co-adapted and co-directed with Robert Icke a theatrical version of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, a production that has toured the U.K. and Internationally, had three runs in the West End and played on Broadway in the summer of 2017. As co-director with Robert Icke, Macmillan was awarded a UK Theatre Best Director award.

His collaboration with Mitchell led to his meeting Leo Warner, the video designer who directed Macmillan's adaptation of City of Glass in 2017.

His play Lungs was first produced at the Studio Theatre in Washington DC and has subsequently been performed around the world, receiving its German-language premiere as 'Atmen' at the Schaubühne where it entered the repertory, directed by Katie Mitchell. Lungs has also premiered in South Africa as "Longe" in 2016 at the Vrystaat Kunstefees, winning the award for Best Upcoming Talent. The British production of the play, starring Kate O'Flynn and Alistair Cope under the direction of Richard Wilson won a Best New Play award at 2013's Off West End Awards.

Every Brilliant Thing was produced by Paines Plough and Pentabus, enjoyed sold-out runs at three consecutive Edinburgh Festivals and continues to tour worldwide. During its run at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York, it was filmed for broadcast on HBO (first aired 2016). It is an interactive monologue, performed with audience participation. Its original performer was the comedian Jonny Donahoe.

Macmillan's play People, Places and Things opened at the National Theatre in a co-production with Headlong Theatre Company in 2015 and was nominated for Best New Play at the Olivier Awards. It transferred to the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End in 2016 and will transfer to St Ann's Warehouse in New York in 2017. It was directed by Jeremy Herrin and starred Denise Gough, who won the Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in 2016.

Macmillan adapted Don Juan Comes Back From The War by Ödön von Horváth for the National Theatre Studio and Finborough Theatre in 2012. The production was directed by Andrea Ferran as part of the Leverhulme Emerging Directors Bursary and was nominated for four Off West End Awards.

Duncan Macmillan (born 1980) is an English playwright and director. He is most noted for his plays Lungs, People, Places and Things, Every Brilliant Thing, and the stage adaptation of the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which he co-adapted and co-directed with Robert Icke.