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Marina Carr

1964 -

Marina Carr was raised in County Offaly. She graduated from University College Dublin with a degree in English and Philosophy in 1987. Marina’s plays have been published by Nick Hern Books, The Gallery Press and Faber & Faber and translated into many languages. She was awarded a McCauley Fellowship, the American/Ireland Fund award, the Puterbaugh Fellowship and an E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Marina has taught at Trinity College Dublin, Willanova University and Princeton University. Works not listed here include a new, contemporary translation of Rigoletto for Opera Theatre Company which toured Ireland in 2015; and an oratorio, Mary Gordon, as part of a commission for Wicklow County Council that brought together choirs from Wicklow with solo singers and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in November 2016. She lectures at Dublin City University and is a member of Aosdána.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
1 in 5 Morna Regan Rosemary Jenkinson Marina Carr Nicola McCartney
16 Possible Glimpses Marina Carr
Ariel Marina Carr
By the Bog of Cats Marina Carr
Low in the Dark Marina Carr
Marble Marina Carr
Meat and Salt Marina Carr
On Raftery's Hill Marina Carr
Phaedra Backwards Marina Carr
Portia Coughlan Marina Carr
Signatories Emma Donoghue Marina Carr Joseph O'Connor (1) Frank McGuinness Thomas Kilroy Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Hugo Hamilton Rachel Feehily
The Cordelia Dream Marina Carr
The Giant Blue Hand Marina Carr
The Mai Marina Carr
Theatre For One (Ireland) Marina Carr Stacey Gregg Emmet Kirwan Louise Lowe Mark O'Rowe Enda Walsh
This Love Thing Marina Carr
Ullaloo Marina Carr
Woman and Scarecrow Marina Carr
Woman and Scarecrow Marina Carr

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
Anna Karenina Marina Carr Leo Tolstoy
Blood Wedding Marina Carr Federico García Lorca
Hecuba Marina Carr Euripides