James Graham

James Graham is a playwright and film and television writer who won the Pearson Playwriting Bursary in 2006 and went on to win the Catherine Johnson Award for the Best Play in 2007 for his play Eden's Empire. He is Writer in Residence at the Finborough Theatre and a member of the Royal Court / BBC 50 scheme.

James's play Tory Boyz for the National Youth Theatre caused a storm during its run at the Soho Theatre and received excellent reviews for its portrayal of young, gay men in the modern Conservative Party. His play The Whisky Taster premiered at the Bush Theatre in early 2010 to uniformly excellent reviews. 

His first film for television, Caught in a Trap, was broadcast on ITV1 on Boxing Day 2008. James was picked as one Broadcast Magazine's Hotshots in the same year. He has written on the new BBC 1 series Prisoners Wives, which airs January 2012.

James' play This House opens at the National Theatre in October 2012 directed by Jeremy Herrin.

His film X and Y is being produced by Origin Pictures and BBC Films and was on the prestigious 'Brit List', the list of the best unproduced screenplays in the UK.  He is currently adapting the bestselling book Gypsy Boy as a feature film also for BBC Films.