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Jaki McCarrick

JAKI MCCARRICK

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  

Jaki has won numerous awards for her work including: Winner of the 2005 SCDA National Playwriting Competition for the MUSHROOM PICKERS;Shortlisted for the Sphinx Playwriting Award 2006, Bruntwood Prize 2006, Kings Cross Award 2007 for the MOTH-HOUR; Shortlisted for the 2009 Adrienne Benham Award for LEOPOLDVILLE and the 2009 Asham Award for short fiction for the CONGO. Most recently her short story the VISIT won the Wasafiri Prize for New Writing in October 2010 and Jaki was declared the first ever winner of the Liverpool Lennon Paper Poetry competition, which she was awarded by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Jaki studied at Trinity College, Dublin, gaining a Master of Philosophy Degree, Creative Writing - Distinction. Before this Jaki gained a B.A. Performing Arts, First Class Honours Degree at Middlesex University. She has completed an RNT Directors Course, 2001, Studied with Katie Mitchell, Peter Gill, William Gaskill and Nancy Meckler.

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         American Hotel, The         Belfast Girls         Bohemians, The         Collectors, The         Crow's Wake, The         Leopoldville         Moth-Hour, The         Mushroom Pickers, The         Naturalists, The         Stag Of Doohamlet, The         XX
American Hotel, The

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Read At The Hampstead Theatre, London     01 Sep 2005

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Belfast Girls

Belfast Girls
about five young women travelling to Australia in 1850 draws a chilling parallel between the Irish Famine and today's continuing banking crisis. the story of the so-called orphan girls' on board, for whom the voyage provides a fresh start  and also time to come to terms with the disaster they have left behind  is a savage attack on the policy (then and now) of laissez-faire'.

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It was further developed at the National Theatre Studio, London in January 2012.

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Good Night Out Presents

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Bohemians, The

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Collectors, The

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Virgil has kidnapped Penelope. Penelope tells him that her husband will not pay up

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Part of "Word: Play 4"

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Arcola Theatre, London     01 Mar 2011

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Fifteen minute play

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Crow's Wake, The

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Leopoldville

Leopoldville
Leopoldville is a dark Irish play set in 1990, at the tail-end of the last recession. Based on the story of a real-life crime that happened at the tail-end of the longest recession in Ireland's history, Leopoldville is a play about a gang of young men who rob a pub in a border town. Damaged lives are revealed and friendships profoundly tested as their crime spirals horrifically out of control.

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finalist in the King's Cross Award for New Writing 2009

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Papatango Theatre Company

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Moth-Hour, The

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long-listed for the Bruntwood Prize 2006.

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Read At The Soho Theatre, London     01 Nov 2006

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Mushroom Pickers, The

Mushroom Pickers, The
Set in the border bandit' country of County Monaghan, The Mushroom Pickers tells the story of Laura, an accomplished actor who leaves her career in London when her life unexpectedly changes course. A self-confessed square peg in a round hole,' she returns home to join her father, Philip, to work in the local mushroom tunnels. Here Frank McElroy, manager of the family-run business and proponent of the wilder variety of mushroom, takes a shine to Laura and shares with her his dream of wooing the restaurateurs of Ireland and beyond. But Frank has a secret  and so does Laura.

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Winner of the 2005 Scottish Drama Association's National Playwriting Competition

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Southwark Playhouse, London     02 May 2006

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Theatrepublik

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Naturalists, The

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Stag Of Doohamlet, The

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Reading At The Tain Theatre, Dundalk     01 Jan 2007

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Livin' Dred Theatre company

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XX

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part of Festopia. Utopia or Dystopia? Playwrights imagine the future in a festival of new plays. From over 250 submissions, 19 plays from emerging and more established playwrights staged across five days this January.

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