Stewart Parker Trust Awards Short List 2018
Peep by Jodi Gray
Jodi Gray is a multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter. She is currently on attachment at the Oxford Playhouse as part of their Playmaker scheme, and is Associate Artist with Vanner Collective and Living Record.
Her plays include Thrown (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, Winner of the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence); Big Bad (VAULT Festival 2018, Winner of the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work, and London Horror Festival 2018); Peep (Bewley’s Theatre Café, Dublin, February 2018); Like I Care (ArtsEd); Shudder, How to Find Us and Spent (Oxford School of Drama at Soho Theatre); Affection, hookup, You Could Move, Reach Out and Touch Me, The Front Room and SSA (all Outbox Theatre Company, in London and on tour).
Jodi Gray is a multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter. She is currently on attachment at the Oxford Playhouse as part of their Playmaker scheme, and is Associate Artist with Vanner Collective and Living Record.
Her plays include Thrown (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, Winner of the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence); Big Bad (VAULT Festival 2018, Winner of the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work, and London Horror Festival 2018); Peep (Bewley’s Theatre Café, Dublin, February 2018); Like I Care (ArtsEd); Shudder, How to Find Us and Spent (Oxford School of Drama at Soho Theatre); Affection, hookup, You Could Move, Reach Out and Touch Me, The Front Room and SSA (all Outbox Theatre Company, in London and on tour).
Furniture by Sonya Kelly
Sonya Kelly’s debut play, The Wheelchair on My Face, a Show In A Bag was produced by Fishamble, the new play company and won a Scotsman Fringe First Award in 2012, and received a Critics’ Pick in the New York Times. Her second play, How To Keep An Alien, was produced by Rough Magic and won Best Production at the Dublin Fringe, 2014. It toured the Brisbane Festival, Traverse in Edinburgh, Soho Theatre, The Irish Arts Center in New York, and the Auckland Arts Festival. Her short play, The Pet Sitter was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre as part of their Future Tense series. Her play, Furniture, produced by Druid Theatre premiered at GIAF in 2018 and completed a national tour in 2019. Mentorships and residencies include Rough Magic’s ADVANCE, Six In The Attic (ITI), Centre Culturel Irlandais and NT Studio.
Sonya Kelly’s debut play, The Wheelchair on My Face, a Show In A Bag was produced by Fishamble, the new play company and won a Scotsman Fringe First Award in 2012, and received a Critics’ Pick in the New York Times. Her second play, How To Keep An Alien, was produced by Rough Magic and won Best Production at the Dublin Fringe, 2014. It toured the Brisbane Festival, Traverse in Edinburgh, Soho Theatre, The Irish Arts Center in New York, and the Auckland Arts Festival. Her short play, The Pet Sitter was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre as part of their Future Tense series. Her play, Furniture, produced by Druid Theatre premiered at GIAF in 2018 and completed a national tour in 2019. Mentorships and residencies include Rough Magic’s ADVANCE, Six In The Attic (ITI), Centre Culturel Irlandais and NT Studio.
Beat. by Fionntán Larney
Fionntán Larney is a writer and performer from Dublin and a recent graduate of The Lir Academy. Beat. is his first show. It premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 and received 5 stars from the Irish Times before transferring to the Beckett theatre this year for a sold out run. The album version of the show is on Spotify with over 35,000 streams to date.
As an actor he has performed in The Lost O'Casey (ANU), The Metals(Una McKevitt/Dublin Theatre Festival) and Playboy Of the Western World (The Lir Academy). He is currently in Travesty (The Corps Ensemble) at the New Theatre and will be seen next in the Play For Ireland, The Alternative, for Fishamble.
He is currently working on a film script, Horses for Courses, the story of a horse and the horse who loved him.
Fionntán Larney is a writer and performer from Dublin and a recent graduate of The Lir Academy. Beat. is his first show. It premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 and received 5 stars from the Irish Times before transferring to the Beckett theatre this year for a sold out run. The album version of the show is on Spotify with over 35,000 streams to date.
As an actor he has performed in The Lost O'Casey (ANU), The Metals(Una McKevitt/Dublin Theatre Festival) and Playboy Of the Western World (The Lir Academy). He is currently in Travesty (The Corps Ensemble) at the New Theatre and will be seen next in the Play For Ireland, The Alternative, for Fishamble.
He is currently working on a film script, Horses for Courses, the story of a horse and the horse who loved him.
The Cat's Mother by Erica Murray
Erica Murray is originally from County Limerick. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Lir Academy, Trinity College Dublin. She was a member of the New Playwright’s Programme at The Lyric Theatre and the Soho Theatre Writer’s Group in 2017. This year, she is one of the recipients of the prestigious Channel 4 Playwright Bursary Awards supported by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. This was awarded for her play All Mod Cons which then premiered at The Lyric Theatre in May 2019. The Cat’s Mother was her first produced play. It was long listed for the Verity Bargate Award and winner of the Fishamble Award for New Writing at the Dublin Fringe 2018.
Erica Murray is originally from County Limerick. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Lir Academy, Trinity College Dublin. She was a member of the New Playwright’s Programme at The Lyric Theatre and the Soho Theatre Writer’s Group in 2017. This year, she is one of the recipients of the prestigious Channel 4 Playwright Bursary Awards supported by the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. This was awarded for her play All Mod Cons which then premiered at The Lyric Theatre in May 2019. The Cat’s Mother was her first produced play. It was long listed for the Verity Bargate Award and winner of the Fishamble Award for New Writing at the Dublin Fringe 2018.
Photograph by Amit & Naroop
If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You
by John O'Donovan
John O’Donovan is a playwright from Clarecastle, Co. Clare. His work has been read and staged in Ireland at the Mick Lally Theatre, Project Arts Centre, glór and the Abbey, as well as in the UK at the Old Vic, Old Red Lion, New Diorama, Southwark Playhouse, Theatre503, Arcola Theatre and RADA. A former member of the Old Vic 12, Orange Tree Writers’ Collective and Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme, as well as the Abbey Theatre Playwrights Hub and the BBC's Drama Writers Room, he has had stories and plays published in Verbal Arts Magazine, Crannóg and Bare Fiction. His debut play, If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You, is published by Methuen Drama.
by John O'Donovan
John O’Donovan is a playwright from Clarecastle, Co. Clare. His work has been read and staged in Ireland at the Mick Lally Theatre, Project Arts Centre, glór and the Abbey, as well as in the UK at the Old Vic, Old Red Lion, New Diorama, Southwark Playhouse, Theatre503, Arcola Theatre and RADA. A former member of the Old Vic 12, Orange Tree Writers’ Collective and Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme, as well as the Abbey Theatre Playwrights Hub and the BBC's Drama Writers Room, he has had stories and plays published in Verbal Arts Magazine, Crannóg and Bare Fiction. His debut play, If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You, is published by Methuen Drama.
