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MICHELLE READ

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Michelle Read is a writer, theatre-maker and dramaturge. Originally from the UK, she trained as an actor at Middlesex Polytechnic and later received an M.A. in dramaturgy from Goldsmiths College, London. Her awards include the Hugh Leonard Bursary and the Eamon Keane Full-Length Play Award for ‘Snakelight’ (2009), the Stewart Parker/BBC Northern Ireland Drama Award for ‘The Other Side’ (2003) and a Fringe First for ‘Romantic Friction’ (1998). In 2011 she was commissioned by the Gaiety School of Acting to write for eighteen graduating students, resulting in the new play ‘Toxic’, which was performed at Project Arts Centre. She was a Theatre Artist in Residence at the Civic Theatre, Tallaght. She is currently a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute initiative.

COMPANY JOBS

Job Title Company
Artistic Director Living Space Theatre (formerly READCO)

PLAYWRITING CREDITS

Play Title Playwright
Play About My Dad Michelle Read
Romantic Friction Michelle Read
The Lost Letters of a Victorian Lady Michelle Read
The Other Side Michelle Read
Tiny Plays for Ireland Dermot Bolger Niamh Creely Michael Cussen Evan Lee D'Alton Darren Donohue Rachel Feehily Ronan Geoghegan Antonia Hart Mark Hennessy Deirdre Kinahan Rosaleen McDonagh Sean McLoughlin Adrienne Michel-Long Gerald Murphy Colin Murphy Ciara Ní Chuirc Rory Nolan Joseph O'Connor (1) Ardal O'Hanlon Karl O'Neill Jody O'Neill Michelle Read Gregory Rosenstock Jesse Weaver Michael West

ACTOR

Play Title Playwright
Emma Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy Jane Austen
Out of Line Maeve Ingoldsby
Play About My Dad Michelle Read
Quay West David Fancy Alex Johnston Joseph Long
Romantic Friction Michelle Read
The Butterfly Ranch Tom Swift
The Lost Letters of a Victorian Lady Michelle Read
The Quest

PRODUCER

Play Title Playwright
Play About My Dad Michelle Read
Romantic Friction Michelle Read
You Are Here Ioanna Anderson

DRAMATURG

Play Title Playwright
Marvel Elizabeth Moynihan
The Scarlet WWWeb Briana Corrigan Mary Kelly