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Frank McGuinness

1953 -

McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co Donegal. He has written extensively for the Irish theatre, both original scripts and translations. His awards include the London Evening Standard Award for most promising playwright for Observe the Sons of Ulster in 1985, and a Tony Award for his 1997 adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House. He has published several volumes of poetry and wrote the screenplay for Pat O'Connor's 1998 film version of Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa. He is a writer-in-residence at UCD. He lives in Dublin.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title	Playwright
Baglady	Frank McGuinness
Borderlands	Frank McGuinness
Brides of Ladybag	Frank McGuinness
Carthaginians	Frank McGuinness
Dear Ireland I	Rosaleen McDonagh David Ireland Jody O'Neill Carmel Winters Enda Walsh Iseult Golden Sarah Hanly John Connors Nancy Harris Owen McCafferty Shane O'Reilly Frank McGuinness Zoe Ní Riordáin Felicia 'FELISPEAKS' Olusanya Karen Cogan Gina Moxley Jimmy Murphy Abbie Spallen Ursula Rani Sarma Zhu Yi Michael West Pom Boyd Shaun Dunne Stacey Gregg Manchán Magan Eva O'Connor Thomas Kane Byrne Edna O'Brien Sinéad Burke Aoife Martyn Dermot Bolger Arthur Riordan Carys D. Coburn Andrea Molino Meadhbh McHugh Colm Keegan (2) John O'Donovan (2) Phillip McMahon Deirdre Kinahan Darach Mac Con Iomaire Margaret Perry Sonya Kelly Joseph O'Connor (1) Kit de Waal Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Keith James Walker Mark O'Halloran Una McKevitt Blindboy Boatclub Emmet Kirwan
Dolly West's Kitchen	Frank McGuinness
Donegal	Frank McGuinness Kevin Doherty
Feed the Money and Keep Them Coming	Frank McGuinness
Flesh and Blood	Frank McGuinness
Gates of Gold	Frank McGuinness
Gatherers	Frank McGuinness
Greta Garbo Came to Donegal	Frank McGuinness
Innocence	Frank McGuinness
Ladybag	Frank McGuinness
Mary and Lizzie	Frank McGuinness
Mutabilitie	Frank McGuinness
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme	Frank McGuinness
Signatories	Emma Donoghue Marina Carr Joseph O'Connor (1) Frank McGuinness Thomas Kilroy Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Hugo Hamilton Rachel Feehily
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me	Frank McGuinness
Speaking like Magpies	Frank McGuinness
The Bird Sanctuary	Frank McGuinness
The Bread Man	Frank McGuinness
The Factory Girls	Frank McGuinness
The Glass God	Frank McGuinness
The Hanging Gardens	Frank McGuinness
The Match Box	Frank McGuinness
There Came A Gypsy Riding	Frank McGuinness

Adaptations

Play Title	Playwright
A Doll's House	Frank McGuinness Henrik Ibsen
Barbaric Comedies	Frank McGuinness Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
Damned by Despair	Frank McGuinness Tirso de Molina
Electra	Frank McGuinness Sophocles
Ghosts	Frank McGuinness Henrik Ibsen
Hecuba	Frank McGuinness Euripides
Helen	Frank McGuinness Euripides
John Gabriel Borkman	Frank McGuinness Henrik Ibsen
Miss Julie	Frank McGuinness August Strindberg
Oedipus	Frank McGuinness Sophocles
Peer Gynt	Frank McGuinness Henrik Ibsen
Phaedra	Frank McGuinness Jean Racine
Rosmersholm	Frank McGuinness Henrik Ibsen
The Dead	Frank McGuinness James Joyce
The House of Bernarda Alba	Frank McGuinness Federico García Lorca
The Man with the Flower in his Mouth	Frank McGuinness Luigi Pirandello
The Storm	Frank McGuinness Alexander Ostrovsky
The Stronger	Frank McGuinness August Strindberg
The Threepenny Opera	Frank McGuinness Frank McGuinness Kurt Weill
The Wild Duck	Frank McGuinness Henrik Ibsen
Three Sisters	Frank McGuinness Anton Chekhov
Yerma	Frank McGuinness Federico García Lorca

Director

Play Title	Playwright
Brides of Ladybag	Frank McGuinness

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