Location: Granada
Marina Carr is an invited writer at the 2023 AEDEI conference. Have a look at the conference website for more information.
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 Raftery’s Hill, 1999; Ariel, 2000; Woman and Scarecrow, 2004; The Cordelia Dream, 2006; Marble, 2007; 16 Possible Glimpses, 2009; Hecuba, 2015, The Boy at the Abbey Theatre 2021, iGirl at the Abbey Theatre 2021; Girl on an Altar at The Kiln Theatre 2022. Adaptations are Anna Karenina (adapted from Tolstoy’s novel), 2016; Blood Wedding (a new version of Lorca’s play), 2019; and To the Lighthouse, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel. Plays for children are Meat and Salt, 2003 and The Giant Blue Hand, 2007. 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 also wrote a new, contemporary translation of Rigoletto for Opera Theatre Company, which toured Ireland in 2015, and wrote an original oratorio Mary Gordon as part of a commission for Wicklow County Council that brought together choirs from throughout County Wicklow with solo singers and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in November 2016.
Prizes include WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE 2017 for her body of work, THE SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE, THE AMERICAN/IRELAND FUND AWARD, THE E.M FORSTER AWARD from the AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS, THE MACAULAY FELLOWSHIP, THE PUTERBAUGH FELLOWSHIP. She is a member of AOSDANA.
She has taught at Trinity College Dublin, at Villanova University, and at Princeton University. Currently she lectures in the English department at Dublin City University.
She is published by The Gallery Press, Nick Hern Books and Faber & Faber.