l David Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and grew up in Nigeria.
l On returning to Edinburgh in his teens, he studied English and drama at Bristol University.
In 1990, while still a student, Greig co-founded Suspect Culture with director Graham Eatough and composer Nick Powell.
l Greig's first professionally staged play, Stalinland, was produced at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1992, and the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 1993.
l Greig's first Traverse commission, Europe, appeared in 1994, beginning a long association with Scotland's new writing theatre. Europe's themes of displacement and attempts by people to connect during fractured times recur in many of Greig's later plays.
l Branching out beyond the Traverse, Greig wrote Victoria for the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Cosmonaut's Last Message for Paines Plough and Caledonia Dreaming for 7:84 Scotland.
l Greig's work has appeared twice at the Edinburgh International Festival; in 1999 with imagined history play The Speculator, and in 2003 with contemporary fantasia San Diego.
l More recently, Greig scored hits with lo-fi musical Midsummer and pub theatre ballad, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, both of which have toured the world.
l Greig's version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is currently running in the West End, his Edinburgh Festival Fringe play The Events is on tour, and his sequel to Shakespeare's Macbeth, Dunsinane, is about to tour for the second time.
l In 2014, Greig will collaborate with writer director David MacLennan on The Great Don't Know Show, a major commission by the National Theatre of Scotland, which will look at the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence through a piece of popular political music hall.
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