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Pom Boyd

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Pom Boyd is a writer and actress. In the 1980s, she joined the Grapevine Theatre Company where she wrote comedy sketches and children's plays. She later moved to New York, gathered material and embarked on a solo comedy career. Apart from the plays listed below, she also wrote and performed 'La Rossa Gialla', a serious piece based on her experiences in New York, 'The Mad one with the Hair', a one-hour comedy show which played the Dublin Theatre Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, London and New York, and Shame, co-written with Sean Millar, and premiered at the Peacock Theatre as part of the 2018 Dublin Fringe Festival. Boyd's play 'Down onto Blue' received a Stewart Parker Award in 1994. She was a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute initiative, from 2018 - 2019.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Boomtown Arthur Riordan Declan Hughes Pom Boyd
Dear Ireland I Iseult Golden Zoe Ní Riordáin Sarah Hanly Karen Cogan Jimmy Murphy John Connors Ursula Rani Sarma Shane O'Reilly Zhu Yi Nancy Harris Owen McCafferty Frank McGuinness Feli Speaks Gina Moxley Pom Boyd Stacey Gregg Thomas Kane Byrne Sinéad Burke Dermot Bolger Carys D. Coburn Meadhbh McHugh Colm Keegan (2) Phillip McMahon Abbie Spallen Mark O'Halloran Darach Mac Con Iomaire Michael West Una McKevitt Sonya Kelly Shaun Dunne Blindboy Boatclub Emmet Kirwan Margaret Perry Manchán Magan Rosaleen McDonagh Joseph O'Connor (1) Eva O'Connor Edna O'Brien David Ireland Kit de Waal Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Aoife Martyn Jody O'Neill Keith James Walker Arthur Riordan Andrea Molino John O'Donovan (2) Carmel Winters Deirdre Kinahan Enda Walsh
Down Onto Blue Pom Boyd
Shame Pom Boyd

Actor

Play Title Playwright
Digging For Fire Declan Hughes
Halloween Night Declan Hughes
Love Machines Johnny Hanrahan
Pilgrims Paul Mercier
Shame Pom Boyd
The Man Who Cared Too Much Frank Shouldice
The Shitstorm Simon Doyle William Shakespeare
The Way the Buffalo Went Thomas McLaughlin
This Beach Feidlim Cannon Gary Keegan
This Beautiful Village Lisa Tierney-Keogh
Voids Liam Lynch

Director

Play Title Playwright
Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall Katie O'Kelly
Shame Pom Boyd

Written by Pom Boyd with Seán Millar.

Producer

Play Title Playwright
Shame Pom Boyd

Written by Pom Boyd with Seán Millar.