Margaret Perry

Margaret is a writer from Cork. Her 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. It won the Fishamble New Writing Award at Dublin Fringe 2019 and transferred to the Bush Theatre in February/March 2020.

She has been part of Soho Writers Lab, The Royal Court Young Writers Programme and the Royal Court Supergroup 2019, led by Alice Birch and Alistair McDowell. She was a BFI Flare X Bafta mentee in 2021, mentored by Sean Durkin. She is currently on attachment at the RSC and under commission at Soho Theatre and The Abbey. Her plays are published by Nick Hern Books.