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Nancy Harris

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Nancy's work includes 'No Romance' (The Abbey Theatre), which was awarded the Stewart Parker New Playwright Bursary 2012, 'Love in a Glass Jar', her short play commission for the 20:LOVE series of public readings at the Abbey Theatre in 2008, 'Our New Girl' (The Bush Theatre), 'The Kreutzer Sonata' (Gate Theatre, London), 'Philoctetes' or 'The Man With the Disturbingly Smelly Foot' (Unicorn Theatre) and 'Journey to X' (National Theatre Connections 2012). Nancy also writes for television. She was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature in 2012.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Dear Ireland I Frank McGuinness Sinéad Burke Feli Speaks Dermot Bolger Gina Moxley Carys D. Coburn Meadhbh McHugh Abbie Spallen Colm Keegan (2) Michael West Phillip McMahon Darach Mac Con Iomaire Sonya Kelly Margaret Perry Shaun Dunne Joseph O'Connor (1) Manchán Magan Kit de Waal Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Eva O'Connor Blindboy Boatclub Keith James Walker Edna O'Brien Emmet Kirwan Rosaleen McDonagh Mark O'Halloran Aoife Martyn David Ireland Una McKevitt Arthur Riordan Jody O'Neill Andrea Molino John O'Donovan (2) Deirdre Kinahan Zoe Ní Riordáin Karen Cogan Jimmy Murphy Ursula Rani Sarma Zhu Yi Pom Boyd Stacey Gregg Carmel Winters Enda Walsh Iseult Golden Sarah Hanly John Connors Shane O'Reilly Nancy Harris Owen McCafferty Thomas Kane Byrne
Home Theatre (Ireland) Marc Mac Lochlainn Eva O'Connor Sorcha Fox Gavin Kostick Sharon Mannion Fionn Foley Deirdre Kinahan Clare Barrett (1) Jody O'Neill Colin Murphy Jeda de Brí Carys D. Coburn Neil Watkins Sonya Kelly Fiona McGeown Tom Swift Roisin Ingle Louise Lewis Bryan Burroughs Nancy Harris Elaine Murphy Little John Nee Natalya O'Flaherty Finbarr Doyle Paul Mercier Duke Special John Morton Robbie Blake Shaun Dunne Feli Speaks
Love in a Glass Jar Nancy Harris
No Romance Nancy Harris
Our New Girl Nancy Harris
The Beacon Nancy Harris

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
The Red Shoes Nancy Harris Hans Christian Andersen