Cash Carraway

Cash Carraway is a British-Irish[1] author, playwright and screenwriter, best known for creating and writing the BBC series, Rain Dogs.[2][3] Carraway first came to prominence for her bestselling book Skint Estate.[4] Her writing is often compared to Hubert Selby Jr. and Charles Bukowski.[5] Time magazine described Carraway's writing style as "Raunchy gallows humour. And she's genius at it."[6]

Cash Carraway
Born (1981-01-06) 6 January 1981
Camberwell, London
NationalityBritish-Irish
EducationUniversity College London
Occupation(s)Author, playwright, screenwriter, executive producer
Notable workRain Dogs, Skint Estate
TelevisionRain Dogs (HBO)

Early life

Cash Carraway was born in Camberwell, London, on 6 January 1981, and raised in South East London by her Irish Gaelic speaking grandmother (originally from Carraroe, Connemara, County Galway)[7] Carraway attended various comprehensive schools including Carshalton High School for Girls before training as an actor at The BRIT school. As a teenager she worked in a Soho clip joint.[8]

Career

Rain Dogs

In March 2022, the BBC announced that production had begun on Carraway's original comedy drama series Rain Dogs.[9] As the creator, writer and executive producer of Rain Dogs, Carraway serves as showrunner on the HBO original starring Daisy May Cooper.[10]

In an interview with Warner Media, Carraway said "Rain Dogs isn't Skint Estate, it isn't autobiographical but it definitely has firm roots in the chip on my shoulder."[11]

In March 2023, Carraway told the Hollywood Reporter "There's a lot of me in Rain Dogs but it's not my life story. I'm not Costello Jones, if anything I'm more like Selby, I've just hidden myself inside an upper class gay man."[12]

Carraway was originally going to call the series All Shook Down after an album by The Replacements.[13]

Skint Estate

In 2019 Penguin Books published Carraway's memoir Skint Estate. The book was met with critical acclaim and The Times called her "The new voice of a generation."[14]

The film and television rights to Skint Estate were sold in a bidding war and the project went into formal development with the BBC.[15]

Carraway began work on the screenplay before quitting the project, stating it was "too exposing." She later told the Hollywood Reporter "I don't dislike Skint Estate but I disliked the fact that writing about myself was the only way I was allowed to make money from writing. I never wanted to tell my story, so I quit. I don't want my life on telly."[16]

A prequel to Skint Estate entitled Fleshpot was announced by Ebury Publishing in 2020.[17]

Film

Carraway wrote and directed the BBC film L'Opera del Lavoratore starring Neil Maskell which premiered at the 2022 Glasgow Film Festival.[18]

Theatre

Before becoming a writer Carraway trained as an actor. In 2001, she started writing and performing sketch comedy which led to Soho Theatre commissioning her first play The Last Peepshow in Soho.[19]

Published works

Plays

Books
  • Skint Estate: Notes from the Poverty Line (2019; Penguin Random House)
  • La Porca Miseria (2023; Alegre)

TV
  • L'Opera del Lavoratore (BBC) – writer, director; short film
  • Rain Dogs (BBC/HBO) – creator, writer, executive producer

References
  1. "Curtis Brown". www.curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  2. "HBO Boards BBC Drama 'Rain Dogs' From New Writer Cash Carraway, Starring Daisy May Cooper". Deadline. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  3. "Production begins on Cash Carraway's new BBC Drama Rain Dogs". BBC. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  4. "'Rain Dogs' Trailer: Single Mom Cash Carraway Reinvents The Meaning Of Family In HBO's New Comedy Series". theplaylist.net. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  5. "Devastating dispatches from the war against the poor". Morning Star. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  6. "HBO's Superb Rain Dogs Is Like No Other Family Comedy on TV". Time. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  7. McCartney, Jenny (11 July 2019). "Don't call it poverty porn". UnHerd. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  8. Turner, Janice. "Cash Carraway interview: stripper, single mother, sofa surfer". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  9. "Production begins on Cash Carraway's new BBC Drama Rain Dogs". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  10. Goldbart, Max (25 March 2022). "HBO Boards BBC Drama 'Rain Dogs' From New Writer Cash Carraway, Starring Daisy May Cooper". Deadline. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  11. "Background from Cash Carraway, creator, writer and executive producer". Pressroom. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  12. Goldberg, Lesley (10 March 2023). "How HBO's 'Rain Dogs' Changes the Portrayal of the Working Class". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  13. Fienberg, Daniel (3 March 2023). "'Rain Dogs' Review: HBO's British Dramedy Offers Rewards for Those Who Brave the Bleakness". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  14. ""The BBC is and continues to be the home of the very best of British drama"". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  15. Barraclough, Leo (8 October 2020). "'Killing Eve' Producer Sid Gentle Films Acquires Rights to Cash Carraway's 'Skint Estate' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  16. "HBO's Superb Rain Dogs Is Like No Other Family Comedy on TV". Time. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  17. "Ebury bags Carraway's sex industry memoir". The Bookseller. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  18. Tabbara2022-01-27T00:01:00+00:00, Mona. "Glasgow Film Festival unveils 2022 line-up; opens with Graham Moore's 'The Outfit'". Screen. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  19. "Curtis Brown". www.curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2023.


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