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GARY DUGGAN
(1979 - )Nationality: Irish
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Literary Agent: The Lisa Richards Agency UK agency: the Agency
Gary Duggan (born March 14, 1979) is an Irish playwright. Born in Dublin in 1979, Duggan was raised in the North Dublin suburb of Donaghmede. He studied Media Production at Dublin Institute of Technology. Duggan began writing scripts at the age of 15 while attending Grange Community College in Donaghmede. His first staged work was a collection of monologues called Manhattan Whispers, staged as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2001.
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Dedalus Lounge Manhattan Whispers Mission, The Monged Shibari Stop/Over Trans-euro ExpressDedalus Lounge
Synopsis:
Three friends meet regularly in a bar and wonder where it all went wrong
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1st Produced:
Samuel Becket Theatre, Dublin 2006
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Play/Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageManhattan Whispers
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Gary Duggan's Manhattan Whispers is loosely based on his experiences in New York during the summer of 1999. He and some friends had bad times and good, and came back with a plethora of stories
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Subterranean Productions
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Genre:
monologues
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageMission, The
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Two prep school students accost a fellow traveller on a subway platform
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- 2008
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Genre:
Short play
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageMonged
Synopsis:
Three men in their twenties embark on a drug-fuelled odyssey through the heart of Dublin. Bernard works for an insurance company, wants to be a writer. Dave works on a building site, wants to be a drug dealer. Ray works in a bar, wants to be a musician. they are all completely monged.
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won the Stewart Parker Trust Award for best debut play in 2006
1st Produced:
Project Arts Centre, Dublin >>> 14 Apr 2005
Organisations:
fishamble
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Genre:
full length Play/Drama
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Male: 3 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageShibari
"I've started to recognise complete strangers. . ."An ad sales team leader on a joyride to self-destruction. A Romanian bookshop employee who wants to try something new. An entertainment journalist who wants out. A restaurant manager who mourns a suicide. An english movie star who seeks credibility by slumming it in theatre. A Japanese florist who feels its time to take another chance. Relationships are strained, snapped and formed in this modern-day look at life in a multi-cultural Dublin.
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Oberon Books (2012) >>> 978-1849432009
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Genre:
100 min one act
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageStop/Over
A young couple remember the time they spent together, while on the edge of a life they will never share.
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part of 20:Love play readings
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in Irish Shorts, Nick Hern Books, London (2013) >>> 978-1848423176
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Genre:
short romance
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageTrans-euro Express
Synopsis:
Four friends travel around europe trying to film a no budget music video
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1st Produced:
Mill Theatre, Dublin Nov 2008
Organisations:
Pageant Wagon Theatre Company
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Genre:
Play/Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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