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05 May 2021 : Nathan Griffin Writer John Morton Dead Still creator and writer John Morton has won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for his work on Deadpan Pictures hit Acorn TV and RTÉ comedy-drama series.
“Episode 1, Photochemistry” of Dead Still, written by John Morton was awarded the Best Television Episode Teleplay on the night with winners for the 2021 Edgars being announced virtually over zoom.
Talking to IFTN about the award, Morton said:
“It s a tremendous honour to win an Edgar and it s the first award I ve won for writing so it s been a nice feeling.”
“I genuinely hadn t expected that I might get the nod, especially in light of the competition in the category. I was just very happy to be nominated and hadn t even prepared any sort of speech so my surprise was quite genuine and my speech was subsequently quite ramshackle,” the writer recounted.
Dead Still wins prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award in US
Updated / Wednesday, 5 May 2021
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Kerr Logan, Michael Smiley and Eileen O Higgins in Dead Still
Dead Still creator and writer John Morton has been awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay for the show s debut episode Photochemistry.
The awards are issued by the Mystery Writers of America, honouring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television.
Created by Morton, and starring Michael Smiley, the droll dramedy is set in 1880s Dublin in the Victorian era heyday of postmortem photography , when a recently deceased loved one is pictured for posterity with their family.