Marina Carr
Marina Carr was born in 1964 and grew up in Co Offaly.
Her main theatrical works include Low in the Dark (Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 1989); The Deer's Surrender (Dublin, Andrews Lane Theatre,1990); This Love Thing (Dublin, Project Arts Centre, and Belfast, Old Museum Building, 1991); Ullaloo (Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, The Peacock stage, 1991); The Mai (The Peacock, 1994); Portia Coughlan (The Peacock, 1996); On Raftery’s Hill (Galway, The Druid Theatre Company, 1996); Ariel (The Abbey, 2002); and Woman and Scarecrow (London, Royal Court, 2006).
Her plays have been published as Low in the Dark (Nick Hern Books, 1991 and 1995); and The Mai (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1995/Syracuse University Press, 1995). The Mai is included in an anthology edited by Frank McGuinness (Faber 1996).
Her awards include The Irish Times Best New Play Award, the Dublin Theatre Festival Best New Play Award 1994 for The Mai, a McCauley Fellowship, a Hennessey Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and an E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
She is a member of Aosdána and lives in Dublin.
