Kevin Clarke (writer)


Kevin Clarke is an English playwright and screenwriter of film and television.

Early life

Kevin Clarke spent his early childhood in care in north London. He grew up in Birkenhead, Merseyside and left school at 16 to work as a guitarist. Later he studied Drama at Bretton Hall, University of Leeds. He taught in London for five years, writing in the evenings. He directed his first play The Jackpot at the Finborough Theatre; as a result he was invited to join the first BBC Television Writers training course and commissioned to write for the BBC TV series Casualty.

Career

His subsequent theatre play Translantic written with Josh Goldstein ran for three months at the Dramatis Personae Theater in New York City, and his third, Charity's Child played the Riverside Studios. His original comedy screenplay, Albert and the Lion was produced by ITV. He has written more than 150 episodes of television drama, including scripts for Minder, Wish Me Luck, Doctor Who, Wycliffe,The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and The Last Detective. He wrote the original script for the forthcoming feature films Faithfull and Money To Burn.
In middle age he gained an Open University degree in History, then read History as a postgraduate at Oxford. He gained a subsequent MA in Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.