Adam Price (screenwriter)

Adam Price (born 7 May 1967) is a Danish screenwriter, playwright, and restaurateur.

Price is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning screenwriter and playwright who has written a number of TV series that have reached a broad audience in many countries over the world. His latest TV series Ride Upon the Storm (DR, 2017 - 2018) has been sold widely around the world and been awarded with a C21International Drama Awards for Best Non-English Language Drama. Adam Price was also the creator of the critically acclaimed TV series, Borgen (DR Drama 2008-2012), which was awarded with a BAFTA Award for the Best International Drama. Adam Price won the Danish TV Award for Best Drama in 2006 for his TV series Anna Pihl (TV 2 Drama), and he was behind the original idea of the Emmy Award-winning Nikolaj and Julie (DR Drama). Before that Adam Price was a staff writer on the TV series TAXA for DR Drama (1997-98).

For the theatre, Price has written a number of plays and musicals, lately the critically acclaimed A Conversation Before Death (the Betty Nansen Theatre, Copenhagen 2014).

Apart from writing, Adam Price stars as a TV chef with his brother, James Price, hosting the TV show "Spise med Price” (currently in its 11th season at DR), he is the writer of several cookbooks and he co-owns six Brdr. Price restaurants in Denmark.

Adam Price originally studied Law at University of Copenhagen in the early 90s, but already began writing professionally for the stage in the mid 80s. Since then he has also worked as a freelance journalist, food-critic at the Danish newspaper Politiken. From 2001-2005 he was Head of Drama for the danish broadcaster TV2 Denmark. His father John Price was a Danish actor and theatre director. His ancestors moved to Denmark from London in the late 18th century.

External links

• Adam Price at IMDb