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Joe Penhall is an English writer. Born in London in 1967, he was called "one of the finest playwrights of his generation" by the Financial Times.
He won the Laurence Olivier Award, The Evening Standard Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Blue/Orange, a play about the dynamics between a young black schizophrenic man and two psychiatrists in a London mental hospital, which premiered at the National Theatre in 2000, starring Bill Nighy, Andrew Lincoln and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Blue/Orange went to London's West End in 2001.
Penhall adapted Ian McEwan's novel Enduring Love for a 2004 film starring Rhys Ifans and Daniel Craig, and wrote the screenplay for BBC2's four-part dramatisation of Jake Arnott's acclaimed East-End gangster novel The Long Firm.
Also in 2000, he adapted his Royal Court and Off-Broadway play 'Some Voices' - about the impact of Schizophrenia on an average family - for film, which premiered at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight directed by Simon Cellan-Jones and starring Daniel Craig and Kelly MacDonald.
Other plays by Joe Penhall include Dumb Show, Love and Understanding, Pale Horse, and The Bullet.
His directorial debut was the short film 'The Undertaker' which premiered at the London Film Festival, starring Rhys Ifans.
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