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Marina Carr is an Irish playwright, known for By the Bog of Cats.

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Marina Carr

Marina Carr is one of the most talented of the new generation of Irish playwrights to emerge in the 1990s. Born on 17 November 1964 in County Offaly and educated at University College Dublin, Carr has been nurtured by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, and her drama is a blend of rural Irish domestic tragedy and classical re-writing, a mixture which marks her out as a writer concerned with both the minutiae of individual struggles and the poetry of grand-scale human tragedy. Carr's work as writer-in-residence not only at the Abbey but also at Trinity College Dublin mean she is now part of the Irish theatre establishment. She is also well regarded in America and Britain, and often performed around the world.

Her first play, Low in the Dark, was produced by Crooked Sixpence Theatre Company at the

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Academic biography

Associate Professor in the School of English at Dublin City University. Marina teaches creative writing at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She also co-teaches on several modules within the school.
Other teaching experience includes Princeton University, Trinity College, University College Dublin and Notre Dame University. She has been visiting lecturer and keynote speaker at many universities and Literary festivals around the World and has been Writer-In -Residence at the Abbey Theatre where many of her plays have premiered.

Marina has three collections published by Faber&Faber in their Contemporary Classics series as well as many single edition publications with them. She is also published by The Gallery Press. Several of her plays are translated and are frequently performed in England, Europe and the USA. Her play BY THE BOG OF CATS is also published in the Norton Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama Edition.

Prizes include:
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Biography

Marina Carr’s plays to date are Ullaloo (1989); Low in the Dark (1991); The Mai (1994); Portia Coughlan (1996); By the Bog of Cats (1998); On Raffery's Hill (1999); Ariel (2000); Woman and Scarecrow (2004); The Cordelia Dream (2006); Marble (2007); 16 Possible Glimpses (2009); Hecuba (2015); Adaptations are Anna Karenina (adapted from Tolstoy’s novel), 2016 and Blood Wedding (a new version of Lorca’s play), 2019; Plays for children are Meat and Salt (2003) and The Giant Blue Hand, (2007). Future projects include the premiere of Marina’s new play The Boy at the Abbey Theatre and a new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse produced by Hatch Theatre Company and The Everyman in association with Pavilion Theatre and Cork Midsummer Festival.

Her work has been produced by The Abbey Theatre, The Gate, Druid, Landmark, The Royal Court, Wyndhams Theatre, The RSC, The Tricycle, The MacCarter Theatre, San Diego Rep, Milwaukee rep.

She is translated into many languages and produced around the world.

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