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Stand up poet, Playwright and Satirist.
Murray Lachlan Young is one of the UK’s most dynamic and best-known exponents of spoken-word and stand up poetry.
Known best for his satirical commentaries on the bizarreness of contemporary life. Murray is known for punchy wit, brooding subtext & occasional attacks of unaccompanied erotic folk song. Murray has played the main stages at Glastonbury, T-in-the-Park and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre & has toured with The pretenders, Julian cope, Morcheeba, The Pet shop boys amongst others. Having recorded with Chuck D, Morcheeba, Jools Holland, Shriekback & many unknown bearded weirdoes, Murray has also appeared in Movies opposite, Gerard Depardieu, Hugh Grant, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Tim Spell, Rachel Weiss.
Currently 6Music's resident poet, the original regular on Sony Gold winning Radio 4 Saturday Live show, regular on BBC radio 2 Culture show & contributor to the BBC's test match special. He is currently touring his own self-titled one man show, as well as his Modern Cautionary Tales For Children II. He writes regularly for The Times, Guardian, Erotic review & The Chap Magazine. Published in UK Italy & USA. Commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre News Night, BBC, ITV, MTV channel 4 & more.
"The best since Betjeman" - Neil Tennant
"The Best children’s entertainer working in the UK Today" - The Scotsman
"Simply brilliant - hysterically funny and strangely moving" - Claudia Winkleman
"A Noel Coward for the Noel Gallagher generation" - The Times
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LATEST NEWS
Please visit our crowd fundraising site for my new play BURLESQUE and help us reach our target!!!
You can sponsor a word, a line or even a character. Sponsor a verse and I'll personally record it for you onto an MP3. You can even get a VIP package which includes tickets to our exclusive reading in London on the 19th April, a signed copy of the text and so on.
We're going to use the money we raise to help getting the play into full production and into a theatre near you!! So please do support the project!!
To find out more about how our latest development weekend on the play went visit our producers blog diary.
Big thank you to our current donors
VIP Package Julia Payne
Verse Sponsors Ed Whitting and Marc Lines
Line Sponsors Mrs M Knight, Hamish Young (x3), Samantha Roddick (x2), Gustav Temple, James Booth, Frances Cavendish, Mrs Judith King
Word sponsors Helen Taylor, Boudicca Lee Maloney Woodland, Rhonagh O'Donnell, Thomas Linley
Please get involved too - visit our page on wedidthis - here
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