Fin Kennedy

Fin Kennedy is an award winning playwright whose play, How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found, was the first unproduced play to win the John Whiting Award in forty years. In 2007 it was produced to critical acclaim at the Sheffield Crucible and transferred to the Southwark Playhouse, London, in October 2008. 

Fin has also written several plays for young people. In 2009, Fin's play The Unravelling, which he wrote in partnership with Mulberry School in East London, won a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2010 there was a retrospective of Fin's work with Mulberry school at Southwark Theatre called Silkworks this will also feature a new play for the school called The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping. Fin is aslo working on a new commission for Brighton based company Hydrocracker.

Fin was chosen as one of nine writers selected for the 30th Anniversary celebration of the Pearson Playwrights' Scheme at the National Theatre in 2003 and has been a Writer in Residence at the Soho Theatre and at Half Moon YPT.