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Maggie Cronin

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Maggie Cronin is an award winning actress and writer. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen's University Belfast; her one woman shows Greenstick Boy and A Most Notorious Woman have been performed across the world and her short stories broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Ulster. A Most Notorious Woman won the Stewart Parker Trust/ BBC Radio Drama Award in 1995 and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Regional Bursary at Annaghmakerrig in 1996. Full length plays include The Handsome Cabin Girl and Kitty Gulliver. Shrieking Sisters, a dramatised history of The Ulster Suffragettes, was co - written with actress Carol Moore, premiered at Belfast City Hall in March 2013, as part of the "Decade of Centenaries" programme and continues to tour. Maggie is part of a mentoring scheme run by Fishamble The New Play Company and The Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
A Most Notorious Woman Maggie Cronin
Arrivals2 Deirdre Cartmill Daragh Carville Maggie Cronin Fionnuala Kennedy James Meredith
Greenstick Boy Maggie Cronin

Actor

Play Title Playwright
1974 Damian Gorman
A Most Notorious Woman Maggie Cronin
Bruised Maria Connolly Rosemary Jenkinson Maria McManus Stacey Gregg
Carnival Lucy Caldwell
Greenstick Boy Maggie Cronin
The Gift Charles Way
The Kitchen, the Bedroom and the Grave Donal O'Hagan
Titans Jimmy McAleavey