In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award for his collection of short plays, The Survival Handbook.
In The Observer (21 May 2006) Susannah Clapp wrote, of both: "Moses Raine wasn't born when Cheek by Jowl was founded, but he's already written a spellbinding clutch of plays: they are like no one else's.
[1]" In May 2014 Raine's Donkey Heart premiered at the Old Red Lion Theater, Islington.
This ‘big-hearted new work’ was praised by David Benedict in Variety (19 May 2014) as ‘consistently surprising … highly entertaining … The energy and warmth of this unexpected winner deserve far wider attention and exposure.’[2] ‘This absorbing portrait of contemporary Russian life is full of original, quirkily charming humour’[3] Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard (12 May 2014) Moses Raine is currently[when?]
working on a film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s short story, "Conversation with a Cupboard Man".