Duncan Macmillan (playwright)

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Duncan Macmillan (born 1980)^[1] is an English playwright and director. He is most noted for his plays Lungs, People, Places and Things, Every Brilliant Thing, and the stage adaptation of the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which he co-adapted and co-directed with Robert Icke.

Macmillan's play Lungs had a major revival at the Old Vic Theatre in 2019, starring Matt Smith and Claire Foy.^[2]

Macmillan co-created and wrote the 2020 BBC television drama series Trigonometry with Effie Woods.^[3]