Irish Repertory Theatre

Irish Drama.
New York Style.

2009-2010 Season

The Irish… And How They Got That Way

by Frank McCourt
directed by Charlotte Moore

July 14 – September 26, 2010

The Irish… And How They Got That Way is an irreverent history of the Irish through the tumultuous 20th and 21st centuries through the eyes of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Frank McCourt (Angela’s Ashes, ‘Tis, Teacher Man).

McCourt’s razor sharp wit, coupled with his trademark bitter irony, and his boundless love for the Irish People are all underscored by glorious music extending all the way from the auld Irish folk ballades, through George M. Cohan’s patriotic love songs to America, World War II standards sung in movies, USOs and foxholes all over the world, and including the latest from contemporary Ireland’s U2.

“Now in revival at the Irish Repertory Theater a year after McCourt’s death, the show displays a sturdiness that transcends passing vogue.  . THE BUOYANT BLEND OF TRADITIONAL SONGS, SHOW TUNES AND POP IS DELIGHTFUL: Mr. Troy does a dandy George M. Cohan and Mr. Sheehan a devastating “Danny Boy.” – New York Times

“Charlotte Moore’s ensemble of four men and two women puts on a jaunty show, fluidly shifting among songs, jigs and recited passages.  EVEN IF YOU DON’T HAVE A SINGLE DROP OF GREEN IN YOUR VEINS, IT’S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE YOU’LL FIND A TEAR IN YOUR EYE.” – Time Out

White Woman Street

by Sebastian Barry
directed by Charlotte Moore

May 7 – June 27, 2010

  • Hewes Design Award Nom., “Lighting Design” – Clifton Taylor

Ohio, 1916. Five outlaws led by Irish expatriate, Trooper O’Hara, converge on the town of White Woman Street. Haunted by dark memories of a long ago visit, O’Hara leads his rag-tag gang into the town — and into the brothel, wherein he must face his demons.

Against a poetic narrative of Irish and American history, Sebastian Barry weaves a searing tale that evokes a time of change and personal displacement. Stories are told, songs are sung, wild boars are shot and eaten, and a train filled with gold is approaching fast!

“Being given a superior production at the Irish Repertory Theatre… scenes come alive with a white-hot intensity. Under the inventive direction of Charlotte Moore, wooden rigs that look like oil derricks are turned into horses for the gang, creating a rich tension between the rural and the industrial that are appropriate for the setting. In addition, the ambitious sound design by Zachary Williamson gives license to our imaginations to visualize the final climactic attack on the gold train by the ragtag outlaw gang.” — Theatermania

A “poignant play well worth seeing.” — Nytheatre.com

“Irish playwright Sebastian Barry has combined his own poetry and love of cowboy mythology into a touching play, “White Woman Street,” that features an amusing, diverse band of outlaws riding through Ohio in 1916. Charlotte Moore, skillfully directed with a big, warmhearted result. Trooper O’Hare, is played with thoughtful, grizzled melancholy by Stephen Payne. His oldest friend is an Amish man named Mo, portrayed with world-weary wisdom by Gordon Stanley. Greg Mullavey adds a comical touch as Blakely, a slightly addled, clownish British expatriate. Two younger outlaws are played by Evan Zes, as a Russian-Chinese man from Brooklyn, and Charlie Hudson III as a black cowboy from Tennessee. Ron Crawford gives a nice performance as a weathered bartender. A delightful evocation of the old West.” — Associated Press

“Distinctive performances from the ensemble… a tight, word-driven sketch of history that brings rough eloquence to the depth, humor, and torment… while balancing the Irish tradition of extended storytelling, deviltry, and heroism.” — CurtainUp

A Backstage Critic Pick! “Moore brings out the subtlety in Barry’s language in these scenes, and Payne’s quiet, craggy anguish breaks your heart”. — Backstage

“Moore’s clear eyed direction is aided by Zachary Williamson’s evocative sound design and Hugh Landwehr’s sparse and perfectly realized set. David Toser’s Costume Design flawlessly evokes the time period. White Woman Street represents a brave financial and creative risk by the Irish Rep, a company that continually sets the bar higher for itself and the city, so it’s gratifying to report that this production is already one of the highlights of the season.” — Irish Voice

 

Candida

by George Bernard Shaw
directed by: Tony Walton

February 24 – April 25, 2010

Award Nominations:
Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival
Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play, Melissa Errico
Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Xanthe Elbrick

George Bernard Shaw’s classic play tells the story of Candida, a beautiful vivacious woman forced to make a choice between the two men in her life. Candida is comfortably married to the popular charismatic pastor, the Reverend James Morell, when Marchbanks, a young poet enters their home and a passionate romantic triangle unfolds. In this exuberant romantic comedy, (Shaw’s own favorite) questions of love, loyalty, and what constitutes a conventional marriage are explored in a brilliant fusion of words, laughter, and tears.

Creative Team:
Set Design: Tony Walton
Associate Set Designer: Heather Wolensky
Costume Design: Tony Walton
Lighting Design: Richard Pilbrow
Associate Lighting Designer: Michael Gottlieb
Sound Design: Zach Williamson and Jana Hoglund
Hair Design: Robert-Charles Vallance
Dialect Coach: Stephen Gabis
Props Designer: Deirdre Brennan
Assistant Props: Designer Rich Murray
Casting: Deborah Brown
Production Stage Manager: April A. Kline
Assistant Stage Manager: Rosie Goldman
Co-Producer: Alexis Doyle

Ernest in Love

book and lyrics by Anne Croswell
music by Lee Pockriss
directed by Charlotte Moore

December 12, 2009 – February 14, 2010

This wicked adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest features all of its beloved characters – Lady Bracknell and the creme de la creme of London society singing and dancing to the brilliant dialogue of this comic masterpiece. The wonderful music and lyrics faithfully re-create a time when wit and grace ruled the world absolutely and the right address and proper behavior was paramount except when it came time to pay your creditors!

The lush period costumes and clever score are the perfect complement to Oscar Wilde’s incomparable wordplay and sharp witticisms. “DELIGHTFUL…This small gem retains the Wilde story of jumbled identities and thwarted romances but somehow manages to squeeze in a batch of songs. Two, as rendered here, are showstoppers: “A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother,” delivered by Jack (Noah Racey) and Lady Bracknell (Beth Fowler), and “A Wicked Man,” SMASHINGLY TURNED by Katie Fabel as Cecily. AN ENJOYABLE AND FAST-MOVING TWO AND A QUARTER HOURS” – The New York Times

“THIS FAITHFUL ADAPTATION RETAINS MOST OF WILDE’S ORIGINAL WORDPLAY WHILE ADDING SEVERAL CLEVER AND PLAYFUL SONGS. The Irish Repertory Theatre’s classy and intimate production succeeds as both classical and musical theater. As directed by Charlotte Moore, THE STRONG CAST HANDLES BOTH THE SONGS AND TEXT WITH COMIC PERFECTION” – AM NY

“DOES THE MASTER PROUD” – Associated Press

“AN ENGAGING VARIATION ON A CLASSIC” – NY Post

“Director Charlotte Moore and her company are deft not only in delivering Wilde’s stinging critique of Victorian morals and social posturing SHINES TO HYSTERICAL EFFECT but also in bringing Pockriss and Croswell’s songs to life WITH GRACE AND EQUALLY FUNNY APLOMB. Racey is a delight as Jack. He captures not only the character’s impetuousness, but also his somewhat goofy air, with ease. Additionally as he executes Barry McNabb’s choreography, RACEY ONCE AGAIN PROVES HIMSELF TO BE A WORTHY AND CHARMING HEIR TO THE LEGACY OF FRED ASTAIRE.” -Theatremania

The Emperor Jones

by Eugene O’Neill
directed by Ciaran O’Reilly

October 7 – December 6, 2009
December 15, 2009 – January 31, 2010 (at SoHo Playhouse)

Eugene O’Neill’s brilliant groundbreaking play, The Emperor Jones, is the story of Brutus Jones, an African-American man who sets himself up as monarch of a Caribbean island following a prison break in the United States.

When the Natives rebel after years of exploitation, Jones’s mesmerizing journey into darkness becomes a terrifying psychological portrayal of power, fear, and madness. With his demons in heavy pursuit and tom-toms beating, the Emperor is forced to confront the mortal sins of his past in search of forgiveness and salvation.

Awards:
 O’Neill Credo Award – Ciaran O’Reilly
Joe A. Callaway Award – “Best Performance” – John Douglas Thompson
Joe A. Callaway Award – “Best Director” – Ciaran O’Reilly

Nominations:
Lucille Lortel Outstanding Revival
Lucille Lortel Outstanding Lead Actor – John Douglas Thompson
Lucille Lortel Outstanding Sound Design – Ryan Rumery and Christian Frederickson
Drama League Distinguished Production of a Play
 Drama League Distinguished Performance Award – John Douglas Thompson
Drama Desk Outstanding Actor in a Play – John Douglas Thompson
Drama Desk Outstanding Costume Design – Antonia Ford-Roberts and Bob Flanagan
Hewes Design Scenic Design – Charlie Corcoran

“I can’t think of another show that burns brighter….As this magical production makes clear, O’Neill, a man of many demons, understood all too well that everyone is his own boogeyman.” -New York Times

Reading Series 2009-2010

Friday, May 21, 2010 3:00 pm

Bernice Bobs Her Hair
music and lyrics by Adam Gwon
book and lyrics by Julia Jordan

directed by Joe Calarco

Bernice Bobs Her Hair is a musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s early short story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” and is also based on letters he wrote to his sister. It is set in Fitzgerald’s hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota and concerns “the drama, the semi-cruel world of adolescence.” Back in that time, a girl’s hair was worn down until adolescence, at which point her hair was put up – only to be released again in front of a man on her wedding night. In the story, Bernice is the awkward country cousin who has come to the big city to visit her audacious and popular cousin Marjorie. She doesn’t fit in and she makes every social mistake. Marjorie, frustrated by this human millstone around her social neck, decides to make Bernice over, personality and all. What she doesn’t count on is her overwhelming success.

The cast of Bernice Bobs Her Hair is Kevin Carolan (The Ritz, Chicago)*, Cady Huffman (The Producers, Surface To Air)*, Erin Mackey (Sondheim on Sondheim, Wicked)*, A.J. Shively (La Cage aux Folles)* and Phoebe Strole (The Metal Children, Spring Awakening)* with an ensemble of Carey Anderson*, Lindsay Nicole Chambers*, Demi Fragale*, Olli Haaskivi*, Morgan Karr*, Zachary Prince*, Casey Tuma* and Blake Whyte*. Musical Direction by Cathy Venable.  *courtesy AEA.

Adam Gwon (Composer): Was named one of “50 to Watch” by The Dramatist magazine, and won the Fred Ebb Award for excellence in musical theater songwriting. His musical Ordinary Days made its NYC premiere this season with a sold-out run at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Adam’s other projects include the upcoming The Boy Detective Fails (book: Joe Meno) and Bernice Bobs Her Hair (book/lyrics: Julia Jordan). His work has been seen at Roundabout, Primary Stages, York Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Signature Theatre (Arlington), the Kennedy Center, Ars Nova, New Dramatists, NAMT, NYMF, SPF/Public Theater, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Finborough Theatre (London), the ASCAP/Disney workshop, and many others. His other honors include the ASCAP Harold Adamson award, the MAC John Wallowitch award and a MAC Award nomination for best song, as well as commissions from South Coast Rep, Signature Theatre (Arlington), Broadway Across America, and the EST/Sloan Project. Adam has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Dramatists Guild, an artist-in-residence at Weston Playhouse, and is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  Visit www.adamgwon.com.

Julia Jordan (Book & Lyrics): Plays include Smoking Lesson, Tatjana in Color, St.  Scarlet, Boy, Dark Yellow, and Jones. Musicals include Sarah Plain and Tall and The Mice, which was part of Harold Prince’s 3HREE, both composed by Larry O’Keefe, lyrics Nell Benjamin; Guitar, composed by Duncan Sheik; the upcoming Murder Ballad composed by Juliana Nash, co-lyrics with Nash; and the upcoming Storyville lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and composed by Lisa DeSpain. A film version of her play Dark Yellow is currently in development under the title “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” with Glen Luchford slated to direct. A short film version won Best Short at the Telluride Film Festival. Another short film, “The Hat,” that she wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance and was the most often shown short on Bravo and IFC in 2001. Her work has been produced at theaters around the country including Actors Theater of Louisville, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, The American Theater in Chicago, Salt Lake Acting Company, La Jolla Playhouse, The Prince Theater, The Ahmanson in L.A., Primary Stages, Soho Rep and Studio Dante. She is the recipient of the Kleban Award, Francesca Primus Prize, Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, Manhattan Theater Club Fellowship, Jonathan Larson Award, Heideman Award and LeComte Nouy Award. Her work has been developed at The O’Neill Theater Center, Ojai Playwrights Conference, South Coast Rep, The Intiman Theater, Manhattan Theater Club and the Sundance Playwrights Conference. She is Juilliard playwriting fellow, a Manhattan Theater Club Fellow, a member of New Dramatists, a Usual Suspect at New York Theater Workshop and is on the Council of the Dramatists Guild. She currently teaches playwriting at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Friday, April 9, 2010 3:00 pm

Other People’s Problems
by Megan Mostyn-Brown

In Other People’s Problems, Mary visits her friend Jack in New York City with the hope she’ll fall in love and maybe encounter a little excitement. What she gets is — literally — a life changing experience. A play about who you are, who you want to be, rent control, karaoke and the power of Stevie Nicks.

Featuring: Patch Darragh* (The Glass Menagerie, Crimes of the Heart), Aubrey Dollar* (Juvenilia, “Women’s Murder Club”), Rebecca Henderson* (The Retributionists), Kelly Hutchinson* (Desire Under The Elms, Or), Lucas Papaelias* (Cyrano de Bergerac, Essential Self-Defense) *courtesy of AEA

Megan Mostyn-Brown: Plays include: Girl, The Secret Lives of Losers, 4th of July, Going After Alice, The Hawk Has No Home, Lizards, Objects Are Closer Than They Appear, Other People’s Problems, and The Rest Of Your Life. Her plays have been read and performed at: The Actor’s Theater of Louisville, The Women’s Project, LAByrinth Theater Company, University of Missouri Kansas City at Union Station, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The 52nd Street Project, The Guthrie Theater, The Public Theater, The Warehouse Theater, New Georges, Barrington Stage Company, The Old Vic/ New Voices New York Exchange, The NYC International Fringe Festival, The Tribeca Theater Festival, Bennington College, Duke University and The HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO. 2005-06 Cherry Lane Mentor Project (mentor: Theresa Rebeck). Honorable mention in the 2004 Herrick Theater Foundation New Play Competition.  Girl was turned into a sound play by Coyote Rep and is available as a podcast on I-Tunes. Girl, The Secret Lives of Losers and Lizards and are published by Samuel French. Megan is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company and The Women’s Project Playwrights LAB. She has been a guest playwright at New River Dramatists, Electric Pear Theater Company, The Orchard Project, The Royal Court Theatre and the 24/7 Lab. Megan is a graduate of Northwestern University.

Friday, March 5, 2010 3:00 pm

Noah and the Tower Flower
by Sean McLoughlin

When the Towers come down, Natalie will get a new flat and a new start. But when she meets Noah, her future is threatened by the chance of falling in love. Noah and the Tower Flower is about two Dubliners, lost in life, struggling to leave their pasts behind. It is a comic love story, set in the heart of the suburbs of Ballymun, a suburb of Dublin that is currently undergoing social rejuvenation after decades of neglect and alienation. Noah and the Tower Flower premiered in April 2007 at the Axis in Ballymun and subsequently was awarded Best New Play at The Irish Times Theatre Awards and the Stewart Parker Trust Award.

Noah and the Tower Flower will be read by Denis Butkus* (Measure For Measure, The Coast of Utopia) and Annie Purcell* (Dividing The Estate, The Coast of Utopia). *courtesy of AEA

Sean McLoughlin (playwright): As a young boy Sean wrote compulsively, winning many awards for his poetry and short stories. Sean started writing plays seriously when he was twenty eight, much due to the encouragement of the playwright Aodhan Madden. Noah and the Tower Flower was his first play, and was produced by the Fishamble Theatre Company at the Axis Theatre, Ballymun in April 2007. Noah and the Tower Flower won Sean The Irish Times Best New Play Award and The Stewart Parker Trust Award for Best Newcomer. Sean is currently developing a new piece for Fishamble Theatre called Big Ole Piece of Cake and he has also been commissioned to write a four part T.V. series for Accomplice/Samson Films.  He is also finishing a new play The Happy House.

Friday, January 29, 2010 3:00 pm

Four Last Things
by Lisa Tierney-Keogh

Janey is dropping out. Of college, of friends, of life. Stuck on her family farm, yearning for Dublin, she wants to swap the green fields for a concrete jungle and the endless quiet for a ceaseless noise. With a father she can’t talk to, and a dog that can’t talk back to her, Janey bows out and chooses no to life. This is an emotionally charged journey through the last days of a young woman’s battle with herself. An achingly true play that vigorously explores our most secret beliefs, the Four Last Things that are death, judgement, heaven and hell.

Four Last Things will read by David Wilson Barnes* (Becky Shaw, The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Larry Bryggman* (Groundswell, Romance) and Aya Cash* (Killers and Other Family, Three Changes). *courtesy of AEA

Lisa Tierney-Keogh (playwright): Lisa has trained with the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York, The Second City and Screen Training Ireland. Her work has been performed in Smock Alley Theatre, Project Arts Centre, Crypt Arts Centre and Draiocht Theatre in Dublin and at the Soho Theatre in London.  Lisa won the Irish Times Theatre Awards Bursary in 2002 and was nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust/BBC New Writing Awards, Ireland’s most prestigious new writing award. She was a Writer-In-Residence through Poetry Ireland’s Writers-In-Schools Scheme and has had articles published in the Irish Times, Evening Herald and Sunday Independent. Lisa has received writing bursary awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, Screen Training Ireland and The Peggy Ramsay Foundation. In 2009, Lisa was a finalist for the BBC Tony Doyle Award and was invited on to the inaugural New Playwrights Programme at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Her sixth stage play, Four Last Things, sold out half way through its run at the 2009 Dublin Fringe Festival and was nominated for four awards including Best New Play and Best Production.

Friday, December 4, 2009 3:00 pm

A Wake on Chappaquiddick
by Jessica Provenz

In 1969, a young Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on the island of Chappaquiddick leaving one woman dead and a country to wonder – did this accident derail his run for the presidency and thereby change the course of history?  A Wake on Chappaquiddick is a play in three acts with Kennedy’s infamous crash as a backdrop.  Each act is set on the ill-fated island and features a love triangle that spans from 1969 to today, from the heat of summer to the dead of winter, from a run-down cottage to a luxury estate.  The question throughout is whether a single choice – or accident – can alter a lifetime.

Jessica Provenz (playwright): Jessica’s plays have been developed or performed at New Georges, E.S.T., Manhattan Theatre Source, The Actor’s Studio, The Gene Frankel Theatre, HERE, Bowery Poetry Club, Circle Rep, Lynx Theatre, Juilliard, 2Ladies Productions, Penobscot Theatre in Main, Theater Theatre and the Powerhouse in Los Angelse, and the Palm Springs Festival, and have been finalists for The Cherry Lane mentorship and The Actor’s Theatre of Louisville’s 10-minute play festival.

A Wake on Chappaquiddick was previously workshopped at the Cape Cod Theatre Project directed by Kyle Donnelly, with Amy Ryan, Jason Butler Harner, and Mia Barron. Jessica’s play Truth or Consequences was read at the DR2 under the direction of Ethan McSweeny with T.R. Knight and Carson Elrod.  Better than Chocolate was workshopped at Juilliard with director Hal Brooks. Her newest play, Andromeda, was read at The Barrow Group in October under the direction Gaye Taylor Upchurch. Other plays include More Deceived developed at The Directors Company, Bubbly developed at Juilliard, and Menu – a play commissioned by and for comedian Louie Anderson.

Jessica wrote and co-produced the film Nothing Happened (director Julia Kots), which wrapped in September. She is writing a feature One Night in Bergdorf’s for Alicia Keys’ Big Pita Lil’ Pita and is developing films with De Line, Jon Shestack Productions, and handsomecharlie films among others. She developed TV series “Married in a Year” and “Affairs of State,” both with Killer Films, and sold her pitch, “Lone Man on Campus,” to Touchstone Pictures.

Jessica Provenz received a B.S. from Northwestern University and was Artist-in-Residence at The Juilliard School for 2 years under the mentorship of Christopher Durang and Marsha Norman. Jessica is a 2-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Award, a mentor with the 52nd Street Project, and a member of The Dramatists Guild.

Friday, October 30, 2009 3:00 pm

Slow Falling Bird
by Christine Evans

Slow Falling Bird is set in an immigration detention center in Woomera in the dead heart of the Australian desert. It charts the tinderbox relationships between guards and inmates when a deadly bargain for a child’s survival is struck across the wire. Mixing gritty realism with hallucinatory sequences, Slow Falling Bird is set in both a real desert, and a desert of the mind. Winner of the Rella Lossy Award (San Francisco) and the Monash National Play Award (Australia).

Slow Falling Bird will read by with Bianca Amato* (Trumpery, The Coast of Utopia), Maha Chehlaoui* (Aftermath, Betrayal), Crystal Dickinson* (Broke-ology, Ruined), Gian-Murray Gianino* (Freshwater, Eurydice), Matthew Rauch* (Still Life, Edward the Second), Jamal Rodriguez* (Venus, Tartuffe), Debargo Sanyal* (Queens Boulevard, Telethon). *courtesy of AEA.

Christine Evans (Playwright): Originally from Australia (though proud of her Irish roots), Christine Evans is an internationally produced playwright now resident in the U.S. In 2009, her multi-award winning play Trojan Barbie premiered at the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) and was published in Theatre Forum, Issue #35. Ms. Evans’ work has been produced and developed at venues including the New Vic and RADA (London), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), the Adelaide International Festival of the Arts, Deck Chair Theatre, Vitalstatistix, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Magic Theatre, Theater Simple, Live Girls!, Kitchen Dog Theatre, hotINK Play Festival, Bricolage Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre, Perishable Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Crowded Fire, Ohio Theatre (NYC), Rattlestick Theatre and Cutting Ball. Honors include two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a Millay Colony Artist Residency, the 2007 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, the 2009 Playwrights Theatre “Plays for the 21st Century” Award, the 2009 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, a Fulbright Award in Visual and Performing Arts, the Rella Lossy Playwriting Award, the Monash National Playwriting Award (Australia), the Weston Award in Dramatic Writing, and Perishable Theatre’s Women’s Playwriting Award (2000 and 2001). Ms. Evans holds and M.F.A. (Playwriting) and Ph.D. (Theatre & Performance Studies) from Brown and lectures in playwriting at Harvard. She is a 2008-10 member of the Women’s Project Playwrights’ Lab, NYC.

Friday, September 18, 2009 3:00 pm

Guardians
by Lucy Caldwell

In Guardians, bright twenty-somethings Molly and Connor have been married for a year. Forced to relocate to Conor’s family home in Belfast, their love and understanding of each other is brought irretrievably into question. Caldwell explores what happens when our expectations come up against reality, and how easily it is to miss our step. Guardians is the follow-up to Lucy Caldwell’s George Devine Award winning play Leaves.

Guardians will read by Lucas Near-Verbrugghe* (Oohrah!, The Ritz) and Susan Louise O’Connor* (Blithe Spirit, Apostasy & Marion Bridge) *courtesy of AEA

Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast in 1981. Her first full-length play, Leaves, won the George Devine Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and the BBC Stewart Parker Award. Other awards include the PMA Award for Most Promising Playwright (for her short play The River) and the Irish Writers’ Guild Award for Best Radio Play (for her radio play Girl From Mars). Lucy is also a critically acclaimed novelist; her first novel, Where They Were Missed, was published by Penguin in 2005 and was shortlisted for the prestigious Dylan Thomas Award. Guardians is her second full-length play.

The 2009-10 New Works Reading Series is underwritten in part by Alexis Doyle, Patricia Smith,
and the members of our Patron’s Circle.

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