Moira Buffini trained as an actor and taught drama in Holloway Prison. Her monologue Jordan, co-written with Anna Reynolds, won the Writers Guild Award for the Best Fringe play 1992 and a Time Out award for her performance. She produced and directed her second play, Blavatsky's Tower, on the London Fringe. Gabriel, written for the Soho Theatre in 1997, won LWT Plays On Stage Award and the Meyer Whitworth Award. Silence, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, was commissioned by the National Theatre Studio and produced by Birmingham Rep and Plymouth Theatre Royal. In 2001, the RSC produced Loveplay. Dinner was produced at the National Theatre Loft in 2002 and nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy, transferring to the West End the following year. She has written and directed three short plays; The Teacher, for the National Theatre's National Headlines series, The Games Room for the Focus Group at Soho Theatre and Doomsday Girl for the RSC. Her writing for film includes Melissa Malone for the BBC, Presence for Prospect / Film Four and the screenplay of Gabriel for Passion Pictures.