Award-winning playwright, poet and author
“…(his) writing is exceptional, powerful... I cannot recall an audience so moved, so stunned by the time the curtain fell.”
ABC Radio
Duncan Ley is a multi-award winning British-Australian playwright.
“Duncan Ley demonstrates his extraordinary skills with a text that is rich in dialogue and theatrical device.”
City News
Ley's plays including Home At The End, The Burning, When in Rome, In Cold Light, For All Our Sins, and Last Drinks.
The Ides of March was commissioned by The Street Theatre, Canberra and was subsequently short-listed for the 2007 Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Award. It made its world premiere at The White Bear Theatre in Kennington in 2008 directed by Olivier Award winner Adam Spreadbury. Last Drinks premiered at the Cock Tavern Theatre in 2009, also directed by Spreadbury. Both The Burning (2001) In Cold Light (2003) and When In Rome (2005) premiered at Theatre 3 in Acton, Canberra, all directed by CCC Award winner Stephen Pike, with The Burning and In Cold Light winning the Canberra Area Theatre Award for Best New Work. The Burning was included in the Canberra (Australia) college curriculum in 2014. In Cold Light has been made into a (as yet unreleased) feature film by the Motion Picture Company, Sydney. Home At The End was commissioned by the Canberra Theatre Centre for the Centenary of Canberra Celebrations (2013).
Duncan is a founding member of Canberra's prestigious Everyman Theatre company.
Duncan now lives in Hampshire with his wife and two sons.