He was raised in
Duston, Northamptonshire. Now based in
London, he started out as an
assistant director and worked with
Rupert Goold on productions of
The Weir and
Waiting for Godot. He was then part of the
Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers' Programme. His first play
Alaska was produced upstairs at the Royal Court in 2007, and he won the inaugural Tom Erhardt Award for promising new playwright in 2008. His second play at the Royal Court,
The Empire, about young men in the
War in Afghanistan, opened in 2010 and received positive reviews. On the strength of that play he was nominated for the 2010
Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. The play was nominated for the 2010
Olivier Awards in the Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre category.
Honest, a 45-minute
monologue, was produced by
Royal & Derngate in Northampton in 2010 at the Mailcoach pub and also received good reviews. It was then revived at the 2010
Edinburgh Fringe Festival at Milne's Bar as part of the Assembly programme. It is being revived once more for the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014 by Organised Crime Theatre Company at The Space @ Jury's Inn. Commissioned by Royal & Derngate, Moore's play
Town is a contemporary story inspired by local 19th-century poet
John Clare's struggle with madness and his walk from
London to
Northampton. His play
The Swan premiered as part of a double feature in a production staged in the
National Theatre's Paintframe, where the sets are usually painted, in 2011. He has also written for television, creating the 2015 comedy-drama series
Not Safe for Work and contributing episodes of
Killing Eve and
Temple. Moore created the historical drama
Mary & George, based on Benjamin Woolley's non-fiction book ''The King's Assassin''. The series focuses on
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, a key figure in the reigns of James I and Charles I, and his scheming mother
Mary Villiers, played by
Julianne Moore (no relation). It premiered in 2024 on
Starz and the UK's
History Channel. ==Bibliography==