Paul Morris is a Scottish

Scotland

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 playwright

Playwright

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 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, born in Uddingston

Uddingston

Uddingston is a small town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the north side of the River Clyde, about seven miles south-east of Glasgow...

, South Lanarkshire

South Lanarkshire

South Lanarkshire is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, covering the southern part of the former county of Lanarkshire. It borders the south-east of the city of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs, commuter towns and smaller villages....

. His early original plays in Scottish theatre include Three Wee Kings, Stef, Crabs and Wilsy and Transformer, a reworking of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

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's The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world...

. More recently, he has co-written and directed a low budget comedy feature Siamese Cop (Two Cops One Jacket), co-written an animated feature Duck Ugly,, produced by Millimages

Millimages

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 and written an original screenplay Partiendo Atomos, set in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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and directed by John Dickinson. In 2011 his first novel Pa Weathery's Chickens was published by Night Publishing.