Born 1955 Iain trained as an actor at Mountview Theatre school and has been working professionally in theatre television film and radio since 1984 He started writing in more recent years Fantom was performed at Citizens theatre 2015 Taigh Sheonachain was awarded the Donald Meek prize for writing in 2017 Briseadh na Cloiche was performed at Websters theatre broadcast on BBC Alba and screened at Glasgow Short Film festival Faclan festival in Stornoway and Babel international film festival Sardinia 2018 His short story Mach an Geata won the Morton writing prize 2019 Turas Baidhseagail 2017 and Speuclairean 2020 won the Scottish Book Trust 50word story prize His poetry has been published in New Writing Scotland 36 Poets Republic 3 6 and 8 As an actor Iains proposal of an adaptation of Calums Road for stage resulted in two sellout tours with National Theatre of ScotlandCommunicado from 2013 He also toured with Tall Tales for Little People NTSCommunicado and later with Whisky Galore NTSRobhanis Other theatre includes Heritage Passing Places Homers Lazybed Shimmer all Traverse TV includes Crowdie and Cream BBC Machair STV Bannan BBC Alba
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