Editing Irvine Welsh (section)

==Film and stage==
As well as fiction, Irvine Welsh has written several stage plays, including ''Headstate'', ''You'll Have Had Your Hole'', and the musical ''Blackpool'', which featured original songs by [[Vic Godard]] of the [[Subway Sect]].

He co-authored ''Babylon Heights'' with his screen writing partner [[Dean Cavanagh]]. The play premiered in [[San Francisco]] at the Exit Theatre and made its European première in [[Dublin]], at [[The Mill Theatre Dundrum]], directed by [[Graham Cantwell]]. The plot revolves around the behind-the-scenes antics of a group of [[Munchkins]] on the set of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''. The production included the use of oversized sets with actors of regular stature.

Cavanagh and Welsh have also collaborated on screenplays. ''The Meat Trade'' is based on the 19th-century [[West Port murders]]. Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present-day Edinburgh, with [[Burke and Hare murders|Burke]] and [[William Hare (murderer)|Hare]] depicted as brothers who [[Body-snatching|steal human organs]] to meet the demands of the global [[Organ transplant|transplant]] market.

''Wedding Belles'', a film made for [[Channel 4]] that was written by Welsh and Cavanagh, aired at the end of March 2007. The film centres around the lives of four young women, who are played by [[Michelle Gomez]], [[Shirley Henderson]], [[Shauna Macdonald (Scottish actress)|Shauna MacDonald]], and Kathleen McDermot. ''Wedding Belles'' was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA and was subsequently sold to TV channels in Canada and Europe.

Welsh has directed several short films for bands. In 2001 he directed a 15-minute film for [[Gene (band)|Gene]]'s song "Is It Over" which is taken from the album ''Libertine''. In 2006 he directed a short film to accompany the track "[[Atlantic (song)|Atlantic]]" from [[Keane (band)|Keane]]'s album ''[[Under the Iron Sea]]''.

Welsh directed his first short dramatic film, ''NUTS'', which he co-wrote with Cavanagh. The film features [[Joe McKinney]] as a man dealing with [[testicular cancer]] in post [[Celtic tiger]] Ireland. It was released in 2007.

Welsh co-directed "The Right to liberty", a chapter of the documentary film ''[[The New Ten Commandments]]'', in 2008.

In 2009, Welsh directed the film ''Good Arrows'' (co-directed by Helen Grace). It was written by Welsh and Cavanagh. The film is about a darts player who suffers from depression which causes him to lose his skill.<ref>{{cite web|title=Good Arrows|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1277947/|work=IMDb.com|publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.|access-date=29 July 2012|archive-date=16 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016035359/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1277947/|url-status=live}}</ref>