Biography

Mark Ravenhill (born 7 June 1966) is an English playwright, actor and journalist.

Ravenhill is one of the most widely performed playwrights in British theatre of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His major plays include Shopping and Fucking (first performed in 1996), Some Explicit Polaroids (1999), Mother Clap's Molly House (2000), The Cut (2006), Shoot Get Treasure Repeat (2007) and The Cane (2018).

In 1999 he was one of the recipients of the V Europe Prize Theatrical Realities awarded to the Royal Court Theatre (with Sarah Kane, Jez Butterworth, Conor McPherson, Martin McDonagh).He made his professional acting debut in his own monologue Product, at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Biography at the Barbican homepage.

Mark Ravenhill at the website of the British Arts Council. Author's page, incl. "critical perspective." (Compiled and written by Dr. Peter Buse, 2003.)

Mark Ravenhill at the website of In-Yer-Face Theatre.

Ravenhill 10. A symposium celebrating the tenth anniversary of Shopping & Fucking, The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Audio interview from OpenLearn

Literary Encyclopedia

Contemporary Writers, British Council

New York Entertainment

The Guardian

Barbican, Mark Ravenhill

At the Playwright Database Archived 4 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine