Nancy Harris

Nancy Harris is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. She was given the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2012.[1]

For the physician, see Nancy Lee Harris.

Early life and education

Harris is the daughter of Anne and Eoghan Harris. She was educated at Trinity College Dublin, earning a B.A. in Drama Studies and Classical Civilization,[2] and the University of Birmingham, where she completed an M.Phil. in Playwriting Studies (a course founded by playwright David Edgar) in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts.[3]

Career

She was awarded The Stewart Parker Award 2012 for her first original full-length play No Romance which premiered at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The play was also nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award, a Zebbie Award and was a finalist for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2012. Her play Our New Girl, premiered at The Bush Theatre London and was long-listed for an Evening Standard 'Most Promising Playwright Award' in 2013.

In December 2017, Dublin's Gate Theatre presented Harris' unique spin on a classic fairytale, about the challenges of reimagining The Red Shoes for a new generation.[4]

Harris had two commissioned plays opening in September 2019: The Beacon for Druid Theatre[5] which premiered at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway before transferring to the Gate Theatre, Dublin in October [6] and Two Ladies for The Bridge theatre, starring Zoë Wanamaker and Zrinka Cvitešić.[7]

Harris wrote the stage musical adaptation of The Magician's Elephant (based on Kate DiCamillo's novel) with Marc Teitler for the Royal Shakespeare Company Having been delayed a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was rescheduled to premiere in winter 2021.

On television, she was BAFTA nominated for her episodes of the Channel 4 series Dates and contributed scripts for Secret Diary of a Call Girl, The Good Karma Hospital and the epic miniseries Troy: Fall of a City. She is currently working on The Dry for RTÉ One, a comedy about a party girl returning home to Ireland to a troubled family.[8]

Personal life

Harris lives in London. She was due to marry Ghanaian scientist, Kwasi Agyei-Owusu, in July 2020.[9]

References
  1. "Dramatist Harris wins Rooney Prize". The Irish Times. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  2. Drama Graduate Nancy Harris receives the Rooney Prize
  3. Walsh, Fintan (12 December 2011). "I try to get under the skin". Irish Theatre Magazine. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
  4. The Red Shoes-Nancy Harris on The Gate's modern fairytale. RTE
  5. Druid Theatre website
  6. Gate Theatre website
  7. Nancy Harris "Plays are kind of cool now", Irish Times, 21 September 2019
  8. "The Dry and Dead Still among TV projects to receive BAI funding".
  9. Nancy Harris's dark imagination, Sunday Independent, 9 February 2020.
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