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Theatre, Film and TV
Camilla Young
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Darren
Donohue
Darren is an award-winning Irish playwright and poet. His plays have been produced in Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Milan, Prague, Baltimore, Washington DC and New York.
Darren's plays and readings for the Abbey Theatre include Home Game, The Barkhausen Effect and Home-from-Home. Other plays include, Dayshift (Tramedautore Theatre Festival – Milan, Festival on the Crisis PIIGS - Barcelona), Voices in the Rubble (Rapid Lemon Productions, Baltimore), Tuesday Evening (following the news) (Fishamble), A Bucket Full of Fire (Sheer Tantrum/Pandora), The Bird Trap (Three Streets Theatre Company), Keep the Home Fires Burning (Comedians Theatre Company) Revelations, Propelled Upright (Dublin Fringe Festival) Waitin 4 Johno (Crooked House), Bedlam (Dublin Theatre Festival), and Dual Cats with One Crayfish (Irish Repertory Theatre, NYC).
Darren won the Bread and Roses Playwriting Award, 2019 and the Radius Playwriting Competition, 2020 in association with Finborough Theatre. He was awarded the Dennis O’Driscoll Literary Award, 2020.
Darren is currently developing a new play with Druid Theatre Company.
His plays are published by the Irish Theatre Institute, Stagescripts UK and New Island Drama.
Darren’s poetry was nominated for a Hennessy Literary Award in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2020.
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Theatre, Film and TV
Camilla Young
+44 (0)20 7393 4450
Email Camilla Young
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Part of the 6 x 6 x 6 comedy production.
Contemporary one-act play taken to Baltimore in May for six performances.
Part of Tiny Plays for Ireland/America
Play following a new employee as he enters a vast and complex company
Short play reading about two men who clash over the line up of a local football team in Ireland
Absurdist play where a couple face losing their home
Six people gather around a well as dawn approaches, but not all of them will survive to see the sun rise
Public reading as part of Dublin Theatre Festival
Short play exploring Ireland in the 1950s inspired by the Abbey Theatre's production of Tom Murphy's The House
Play exploring the effects of working in an environment where everything is for sale but nothing has value
A couple plan their suicide one Tuesday evening (following the news), produced as part of Tiny Plays for Ireland
Play looking at forty years of marriage in forty minutes
Lyrical play following the reminiscences of a chair-bound old man, but all is not as it appears