Allan Cubitt

Allan Cubitt
Nationality	British
Occupation	TV, Film, and Theater Writer, Director, and Producer
Years active	1990 to present
Known for	Prime Suspect II The Fall

Allan Cubitt is a British television, film, and theater writer, director, and producer, best known for his work on Prime Suspect II and The Fall.

In 1988, Cubitt got his start as a playwright where his play, Winter Darkness, won a Thames Television bursary award that funded a year long writer-in-residence program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. During that year, Cubitt wrote and directed The Pool of Bethesda in a production that starred the then Guildhall students Fay Ripley, Naveen Andrews and Peter Wingfield. That production of The Pool of Bethesda won the Thames Television Best New Play and Best Production Awards. It was subsequently restaged at the Orange Tree Theatre with a different cast. This led to scriptwriting work at the BBC.

Cubitt's first TV script was 1990's The Land of Dreams, and was the story of an asylum-seeking Black South African struggling with his new life in the UK. The TV show featured the actor Antony Sher and was part of the long-running anthology Screenplay TV series on BBC Two. In 1992, Cubitt wrote the script for The Countess Alice, a made-for-TV film starring Wendy Hiller and Zoë Wanamaker about the Berlin Wall coming down. The story was co-produced with WGBH-TV and was also part of Screenplay.

1995's The Hanging Gale was a mini-series about the Great Famine in Ireland, and was Cubitt's first longer-form piece.

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