Born in Clydebank, Scotland, son of a shipyard worker and a teacher, Chris Hannan graduated with first class honours from Oxford University before going to work with homeless people in a Glasgow night shelter. His award-winning plays include Shining Souls, The Evil Doers, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn and The Baby;and have been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre of Scotland and Sir Peter Hall at the Old Vic. In 2001/02 he was Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Drama at the University of Cambridge. He lives in Edinburgh.
