He wrote The Queen's Sister for
Channel 4, which was nominated for several
BAFTA awards (including Best Single Drama), Maxwell for BBC2, which garnered a Broadcasting Press Guild Award nomination for Best Single Drama and won
David Suchet an International Emmy for Best Actor, and The Last Days of Lehman Brothers,[4] for which Warner was longlisted for a BAFTA Craft Award for Best Writer, and which won him the award for Best Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards in 2010. He wrote the mini-series Julius Caesar for
Warner Bros., which gained Warner a
Writers Guild Award nomination for Best Original Long-Form Drama, and he performed an extensive uncredited rewrite on The Mists of Avalon, also for
Warner Bros., which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award and nine
Emmys, including Best Mini-series. Warner wrote the screenplay for Codebreaker, a film about
Alan Turing.
Craig Warner started out writing for the theatre and for radio. His first
radio play for
BBC Radio 4, Great Men of Music, was performed by
Philip Davis and was included in Radio 4's first Young Playwrights Festival. His second play By Where the Old Shed Used to Be, with
Miranda Richardson, won the
Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Plays of the Year, and it was included in the volume of winners for 1989, published by
Methuen. His play Figure With Meat also won a Giles Cooper Award and was published in the Methuen volume of 1991. Craig Warner is the award's youngest ever winner, having received it for the first time when he was 24. He is also a composer and has written music and songs for a number of his works, including a full-length musical for
BBC Radio 3 about the legend of Cassandra, called Agonies Awakening. He runs the production company 25th Image, for which he produces and directs the podcast comedy-drama Night Games, also playing a leading role alongside
Michael Maloney.