Tim Barrow

Tim’s debut play Union premiered at Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, and is published by Playdead Press. Other plays include Neither God Nor Angel (Oran Mor / Traverse); Guy (Pleasance, London); The Sunnyside Centre (Hibs Supporters Club). He co-wrote with Paul Beeson A War Of Two Halves (Edinburgh Fringe) and Sweet F.A. (Edinburgh Fringe). Both played at Tynecastle Park football stadium and are individually published by Tippermuir Books. Sweet F.A. was nominated for 2 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland in 2021.

Rehearsed play-readings include: Pax Caledonia (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Hell’s Teeth (CCA, Glasgow); Hand Over Fist (Village Pub Theatre); Book Club (Dunedin Fringe, New Zealand).

He has written for Shotgun Theatre, formed with Tom Hardy, Robert Delamere and Brett. C. Leonard. He assistant directed & co-produced Blue On Blue (Theatre 503) directed by Tom Hardy.

Tim founded Lyre Productions to make feature films. He wrote / produced Scottish road movie The Inheritance – winner of the Raindance Award at the 2007 BIFAs, nominated Best UK Feature at Raindance, nominated Best Producer at BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards. The Inheritance screened at 13 festivals including Glasgow, Dublin and Ottawa’s EU festival and toured UK cinemas. He wrote / produced / directed Edinburgh love story The Space Between and schizophrenia love story road movie Riptide that screened at 17 film festivals, winning 5 awards.

Short films include The Problem With Money, plus Upstream for the Canmore Trust, a Scottish suicide prevention charity.

He wrote Cramond Island for The Verb on BBC Radio 3, has received a New Writers Award from Playwrights Studio, was a Starter Artist with the National Theatre of Scotland in 2019, a member of BBC Writersroom Scottish Voices 2020 and BBC Writersroom Drama Room 2022.