Steven Canny

16 Jan 2023

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An Executive Producer and Writer with extensive experience in television, theatre and radio.

Theatre work includes: The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society (Traverse Theatre); No Wise Men (Liverpool Playhouse); Origins (Theatre Severn); Spyski (Lyric Hammersmith);The Hound of the Baskervilles (Duchess Theatre). Steven was Associate Director at Complicite for five years where he also worked with Al Pacino on The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

Television producing includes: Still Game, Two Doors Down, Mrs Brown’s Boys, Jonathan Creek; Porridge, Bob Servant, The Tuckers, A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, Kieran Hodgson’s How We Forgot to Save the Planet.

Steven also adapted a number of pieces for radio including A Shropshire Lad for R4 with Simon Russell Beale which then played at the National Theatre; Charlotte Jones’ award winning Humble Boy also for R4 and Mnemonic for R3.

His recent shows have won BAFTA, National Television Award, Scottish BAFTA, IFTA, RTS Scotland, Celtic Media & Sony Gold awards.