Cash Carraway

Cash Carraway
Carraway at the 2024 Royal Television Society Awards 2024 with her award for Best Scripted Drama for Rain Dogs
Born
Camberwell, London, England
Alma materUniversity College London
OccupationWriter
Notable workRain Dogs, Skint Estate

Cash Carraway (born January 1981)[1] is an Irish-English[2] screenwriter, director, and executive producer[3] best known for creating and writing the HBO series, Rain Dogs[4][5] for which she was nominated for a Gotham Award and won a BAFTA Breakthrough.[6][7]

Early life

Cash Carraway was born in Camberwell, London, to Irish Catholic parents from Lettermore, County Galway, and was educated at Carshalton High School for Girls and the BRIT School. She has a degree in English from University College London.[8]

Career

Cash Carraway is the creator, writer, and showrunner of the HBO/BBC comedy drama Rain Dogs.[9][10]

In 2019 Penguin Books published Carraway's debut book Skint Estate. It was met with critical acclaim and The Times called her "The new voice of a generation."[11]

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.[12]

Accolades

She was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Series.[13] Carraway was awarded a place on the 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough list.[14]

Rain Dogs won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Scripted.[15]

Her writing is often compared to Hubert Selby Jr. and Charles Bukowski.[16] Time described Carraway's writing style as "Raunchy gallows humour. And she's genius at it."[17]

Influences

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.[18][19][20][21]

Personal life

She resides in Highgate, North London[22] and Los Angeles.[23]

Published works

Plays

Books

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

TV

  • Rain Dogs (BBC/HBO) – creator, writer, executive producer

References

  1. ↑ "Cash CARRAWAY personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
  2. ↑ "Curtis Brown". www.curtisbrown.co.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "Celebrating 10 years of BAFTA Breakthrough: 2023 global cohort announced today". www.bafta.org. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "HBO Boards BBC Drama 'Rain Dogs' From New Writer Cash Carraway, Starring Daisy May Cooper". Deadline. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. ↑ "Production begins on Cash Carraway's new BBC Drama Rain Dogs". BBC. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  6. ↑ LaMantia, Brooke (28 November 2023). "Gotham Awards 2023: All the Looks". The Cut. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  7. ↑ "'I like telling stories about contradictory humans': Meet 2023's Bafta Breakthroughs". The Independent. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  8. ↑ S11E08 - Cash Carraway, 23 December 2023, retrieved 19 December 2024
  9. ↑ "Rain Dogs is a brilliant, bleak sketch of life at the arse-end of Sunak's Britain". The Independent. 12 April 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  10. ↑ Ritman, Alex (14 June 2024). "'Rain Dogs' Creator Cash Carraway Signs With CAA (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 15 March 2026.
  11. ↑ "Cash Carraway talks creating Rain Dogs, auto-fiction and leaving behind 'poverty porn' | Royal Television Society". rts.org.uk. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2026.
  12. ↑ Guide, British Comedy (30 November 2023). "BAFTA Breakthroughs 2023 interview - BCG Pro". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ "Cash Carraway | Creator, Writer, Executive Producer". www.bafta.org. 27 November 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  15. ↑ "RTS West of England Awards 2024 -winners announced!". Royal Television Society. 22 April 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  16. ↑ "Devastating dispatches from the war against the poor". Morning Star. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  17. ↑ "HBO's Superb Rain Dogs Is Like No Other Family Comedy on TV". Time. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  18. ↑ "Cash Carraway's True Grit". Television Academy. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ Maxwell, Dominic (2 December 2023). "Poldark's Jack Farthing, from Prince Charles to king drifter". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ S11E08 - Cash Carraway, 23 December 2023, retrieved 20 December 2024
  23. ↑ Ritman, Alex (14 June 2024). "'Rain Dogs' Creator Cash Carraway Signs With CAA (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
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