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Cash Carraway
Born (1981-01-06) 6 January 1981 (age 43)
Camberwell, London, England
NationalityIrish-English
OccupationWriter
Notable workRain Dogs, Skint Estate

Cash Carraway is an Irish-English[1] screenwriter, director, and executive producer[2] best known for creating and writing the HBO series, Rain Dogs[3][4] for which she was nominated for a Gotham Award and won a BAFTA Breakthrough.[5][6]

Early life

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Cash Carraway grew up in Penge, London and studied theatre at the BRIT School. As a teenager Carraway worked in a Soho clip joint[7] and lived on the Churchill Gardens estate in Pimlico.[8]

Career

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Skint Estate

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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."[9] A prequel to Skint Estate entitled Fleshpot was announced by Ebury Publishing in 2020.[10] The film and television rights to Skint Estate were sold in a bidding war and the project went into formal development with the BBC.[11] Billie Piper was attached to play the role of Cash Carraway.[12] Carraway began work on the screenplay before quitting the project, stating it was "too exposing." She later told the Hollywood Reporter "I disliked the fact that writing about myself was the only way I was allowed to make money from writing, so I quit."[13]

A rumour started by the online pseudonym ‘Alice In Wanderlust’[14] claimed Skint Estate was a hoax[15] leading The Guardian to investigate Carraway for literary fraud.[16] Carraway proved the authenticity of her memoir[17] and in an interview with journalist Laura Pezzino for L'Espresso Carraway said “I was not treated as a writer but like someone who sold her story to a tabloid. I have discovered that writing really is the most dangerous sport for a working class woman and for this I have decided that I will no longer publish anything autobiographical."[18]

L'Opera del Lavoratore

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Carraway wrote and directed the BBC short film L'Opera del Lavoratore starring Neil Maskell which premiered at the 2022 Glasgow Film Festival.[19]

Rain Dogs

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In March 2022, the BBC announced that production had begun on Carraway's original comedy drama series Rain Dogs.[20] As the creator, writer and executive producer of Rain Dogs, Carraway serves as showrunner on the BBC and HBO original starring Daisy May Cooper.[21] In an interview with Warner Media, Carraway said "Rain Dogs isn't autobiographical but it definitely has firm roots in the chip on my shoulder."[22] 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."[23]

Carraway was originally going to call the series All Shook Down after an album by The Replacements[24] but later changed it to Rain Dogs after Tom Waits’ booze-soaked record about “people who sleep in doorways”[25] All of the music featured in Rain Dogs was specified in the scripts written by Carraway.[26]

Future Projects

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In November 2023, the British Comedy Guide announced three new Carraway projects. A sitcom titled Big Shot for Boffola Pictures, a comedy drama called Reserve List for Objective Fiction, and a feature film with Playground Entertainment.[27]

Accolades

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She was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Series.[28] Carraway was awarded a place on the 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough list.[29]

Rain Dogs won a Royal Television Society Award for 'Best Scripted'.[30]

Her writing is often compared to Hubert Selby Jr. and Charles Bukowski.[31] Time described Carraway's writing style as "Raunchy gallows humour. And she's genius at it."[32]

Influences

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Her artistic influences include the cinematic works of Paul Schrader and Jean-Luc Godard as well as the satirist Chris Morris and screenwriter John Sullivan.[33][34][35][36]

Published works

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Plays

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Books

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

TV

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

References

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  1. ^ "Curtis Brown". www.curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Celebrating 10 years of BAFTA Breakthrough: 2023 global cohort announced today". www.bafta.org. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  3. ^ "HBO Boards BBC Drama 'Rain Dogs' From New Writer Cash Carraway, Starring Daisy May Cooper". Deadline. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Production begins on Cash Carraway's new BBC Drama Rain Dogs". BBC. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. ^ LaMantia, Brooke (28 November 2023). "Gotham Awards 2023: All the Looks". The Cut. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  6. ^ "'I like telling stories about contradictory humans': Meet 2023's Bafta Breakthroughs". The Independent. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  7. ^ Turner, Janice. "Cash Carraway interview: stripper, single mother, sofa surfer". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  8. ^ "Cash Carraway talks creating Rain Dogs, auto-fiction and leaving behind 'poverty porn'". Royal Television Society. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  9. ^ ""The BBC is and continues to be the home of the very best of British drama"". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Ebury bags Carraway's sex industry memoir". The Bookseller. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Lobb, Adrian (4 April 2023). "Cash Carraway on Rain Dogs: 'We always see working-class stories through a middle-class gaze'". Big Issue. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  13. ^ "HBO's Superb Rain Dogs Is Like No Other Family Comedy on TV". Time. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  14. ^ Heath, Lucie (2 March 2023). "Instagram midwife Clemmie Hooper faces misconduct hearing over 'racially offensive' posts". i news. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  15. ^ Beswick, Katie (7 January 2021). "Sex, Lies and Difficult Truth in Cash Carraway's Skint Estate". University of the Arts, London.
  16. ^ Carraway, Cash (25 June 2023). "Cash Carraway: the truth about austerity today". Tortoise Media. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  17. ^ "Beyond Misery Porn: Working-Class Memoir". Bristol Ideas. 23 October 2021. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  18. ^ Sarlo, Assunta (13 May 2023). "La porca miseria lettera a cash-carraway". Cultweek. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  19. ^ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  20. ^ "Production begins on Cash Carraway's new BBC Drama Rain Dogs". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ "Background from Cash Carraway, creator, writer and executive producer". Pressroom. 16 February 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  23. ^ Maxwell, Dominic. "Poldark's Jack Farthing, from Prince Charles to king drifter". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  24. ^ 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.
  25. ^ "HBO's Superb Rain Dogs Is Like No Other Family Comedy on TV". Time. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  26. ^ Dyer, James (3 April 2023). "Pilot TV Podcast #230: Rain Dogs, Beef, And Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies. With Guest Jack Farthing". Empire Magazine. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  27. ^ Guide, British Comedy (30 November 2023). "BAFTA Breakthroughs 2023 interview - BCG Pro". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  28. ^ Goldsmith, Jill (24 October 2023). "Gotham Awards Nominations: 'All Of Us Strangers' Tops Movie List; Ryan Gosling Gets 'Barbie' Nom With Budget Caps Removed". Deadline. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  29. ^ "Cash Carraway | Creator, Writer, Executive Producer". www.bafta.org. 27 November 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  30. ^ "RTS West of England Awards 2024 -winners announced!". Royal Television Society. 22 April 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  31. ^ "Devastating dispatches from the war against the poor". Morning Star. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  32. ^ "HBO's Superb Rain Dogs Is Like No Other Family Comedy on TV". Time. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  33. ^ "Cash Carraway's True Grit". Television Academy. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  34. ^ Dean, Sadie (11 April 2023). "Simplicity of Narrative & Complexity of Character: A Conversation with HBO's 'Rain Dogs' Creator and Writer Cash Carraway". Script Magazine. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  35. ^ Maxwell, Dominic (2 December 2023). "Poldark's Jack Farthing, from Prince Charles to king drifter". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  36. ^ Lobb, Adrian (4 April 2023). "Cash Carraway on Rain Dogs: 'We always see working-class stories through a middle-class gaze'". The Big Issue. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
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