Margaret is a playwright whose debut play PORCELAIN was picked from the unsolicited script submissions pile and produced by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in February/March 2018. She subsequently adapted the play for BBC Radio 4, where it was shortlisted for Best Audio Drama at the Prix Marulic 2019.
Her second play COLLAPSIBLE won an Origin Award for Outstanding New Work at Vault Festival 2019. It was a best of the festival pick in the Guardian and Evening Standard for its Edinburgh run co-produced by HighTide and Ellie Keel Productions, where it picked up a Stage Edinburgh Award, and it won the Fishamble New Writing Award at Dublin Fringe 2019. It opens at the Bush Theatre in February 2020.
She has previously been part of Soho Writers Lab, The Royal Court Young Writers Programme and Barbican Young Poets and was a member of the Royal Court Supergroup 2019, led by Alice Birch and Alistair McDowell. She is currently under commission at The Bush and The Yard Theatre.
Credits
Credits
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DateProduction (role)CompanyProject details
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Date: 2019Production (role): COLLAPSIBLECompany: High Tide/ Abbey / BushProject details: Winner of the Fishamble new writing prize at Dublin Fringe
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Date: 2018Production (role): UNTITLED COMMISSIONCompany: The Yard TheatreProject details:
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Date: 2018Production (role): PORCELAINCompany: Abbey TheatreProject details: Directed by Cathal Cleary.
Published by Samuel French.
Submitted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2018.
Longlisted (Top 40) for the 2015 Bruntwood Prize.
Developed originally at the North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford. -
Date: 2017Production (role): HAIRBRUSH, CACTUS, CHINA CATCompany: Pint Sized Plays / Bunker TheatreProject details: Short Play
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Date: 2017Production (role): ICARUSCompany: Pint-Sized Plays / Bunker Theatre and Brighton FringeProject details: Short Play
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Date: 2016Production (role): TURFCompany: The King's Head TheatreProject details: Part of Festival 46.
Longlisted for the Old Vic 12 2015 -
Date: 2013Production (role): GOOSE CHASECompany: The Granary Theatre CorkProject details: Selected to compete at the Irish Student Drama Awards in Belfast.
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Production (role): COLLAPSIBLEProject details: Workshop reading directed by Hannah Hauer-King, in development with Damsel Productions.
Supported by an MGC Futures Bursary from the Michael Grandage Company.
Longlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2017, and the Old Vic 12 2016.
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DateProduction (role)CompanyProject details
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Date: 2016Production (role): RED ROCKCompany: Element/ CompanyProject details: Took part in a shadow scheme where she delivered three drafts of an original episode for the show.