Joseph Graham Reid (born 1945) is a British playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Born into a working-class family in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Reid left school at age 15, served in the British army,[1] married young,[2] but returned to education and graduated from Queen's University in 1976.
He became a teacher at Gransha Boys' High School in Bangor, County Down but left in 1980 to concentrate on his writing career.
[citation needed] His first play, The Death of Humpty Dumpty is a story about an innocent man who gets caught in the cross fire of the troubles in Belfast.
[3] The play was performed by the Tara Players of Winnipeg at the first Acting Irish International Theatre Festival in 1994.