Steven Canny is an Executive Producer in BBC Comedy and a playwright. Canny began his career as a theatre director and writer. He was associate director for theatre company Complicite from 1999-2004 and productions included Mnemonic, The Noise of Time and Steven was Associate Director on Al Pacino's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. In 2009 he won the Sony Gold Drama Award for Mr Larkin's Awkward Day a comedy radio play by Chris Harrald, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 29 April 2008 as the Afternoon Play. The Sony Gold citation said: "Assured direction, excellent performances and concise, skilfully-researched writing all made this deceptively straightforward story a masterpiece. Funny and touching by turns, a single, seemingly insignificant incident in the life of Philip Larkin brought out the humanity and humour of a poet whose personal life is not commonly associated with either." In 2010 he won the Sony Gold Drama Award for People Snogging in Public Places by one of Britain's most interesting and distinctive writers Jack Thorne. It was broadcast on Radio 3's The Wire.