David Greig was born in Edinburgh. His plays include The Architect, The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Yellow Moon, Damascus, Midsummer [a play with songs], Dunsinane, The Monster in the Hall and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. His translations and adaptations include Euripides' The Bacchae, Aeschylus's The Suppliant Women and Alasdair Gray's Lanark.