Peter Moffat is a British playwright and screenwriter. His first play was called ' A fine and private place' which was a radio play. His best-known plays are Nabokov's Gloves and Iona Rain.
A former barrister, he is the creator of four British television legal dramas: Kavanagh QC, North Square, Criminal Justice and Silk. He also wrote the miniseries Cambridge Spies and the television film Einstein and Eddington, as well as a reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth for the BBC's Shakespe