Nancy Harris

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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

In 2009, Harris adapted Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata, creating a one-act monologue for the Gate Theatre in Dublin, which was then also presented in New York City in 2012.[4]

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, the Gate Theatre presented Harris' unique spin on a classic fairytale, about the challenges of reimagining The Red Shoes for a new generation.[5]

Harris had two commissioned plays opening in September 2019: The Beacon for Druid Theatre[6] which premiered at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway before transferring to the Gate Theatre, Dublin in October[7] and Two Ladies for The Bridge theatre, starring Zoë Wanamaker and Zrinka Cvitešić.[8]

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 was the screenwriter for The Dry, a comedy about a party girl returning home to Ireland to a troubled family.[9]

Her play Somewhere Out There You opened at the Abbey Theatre in September 2023 as part of Dublin Theatre Festival.[10]

Her play The Beacon is slated to open in fall 2024 as an Off-Broadway production by the Irish Repertory Theatre with actress Kate Mulgrew in the lead.[11]

Personal life

Harris lives in London. She is married to Ghanaian scientist, Kwasi Agyei-Owusu.[12]

References

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  2. ↑ Drama Graduate Nancy Harris receives the Rooney Prize
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  4. ↑ Eberson, Sharon. "PICT offers love triangle set to music." Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 27, 2013, p. D3 (subscription required).
  5. ↑ The Red Shoes-Nancy Harris on The Gate's modern fairytale. RTE
  6. ↑ Druid Theatre website
  7. ↑ Gate Theatre website
  8. ↑ Nancy Harris "Plays are kind of cool now", Irish Times, 21 September 2019
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  11. ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Kate Mulgrew Will Return to the New York Stage in The Beacon." New York, New York: Playbill, July 25, 2024.
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