Gregory Motton

Gregory Motton (born September 1961) is a British playwright and author. Motton is best known for the originality of his formally demanding, largely a-political theatre plays at the Royal Court in the 1980s and 1990s, state of the nation satires in the 1990s, and later for his polemics about working class politics, A Working Class Alternative To Labour and Helping Themselves – The Left Wing Middle Classes In Theatre And The Arts.

He speaks fluent Swedish and is one of the chief translators of Strindberg's plays, known for his strict advocacy of translations rather than versions. His work is translated into several languages including Japanese, Portuguese, French, Hungarian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Norwegian (translated by Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse, published Samlaget)

He returned to political writing in 2013 with A Worthless Man, and then in 2024 and 2025 with Listen to Me Now, First They Came For, Liberate Yourself and Help is on its Way.

He has also written a series of short plays about the nature of Jesus of Nazareth; Simeon-the first Christian, Lazarus, Judas of the Field and St John at the Cross.