Biography
Fiona Doyle completed the John Burgess Playwriting Course in 2012. Her work in theatre includes Coolatully (winner of the 2014 Papatango New Writing Prize) at the Finborough Theatre in London and for Mead Theatre Lab in Washington DC; Deluge (winner of the 2014 Eamon Keane Full-Length Play Award) and The Strange Death of John Doe (finalist for the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs; The Annihilation of Jessie Leadbeater (ALRA); The Ceasefire Babies (NT Connections) and Ms Y (short) as part of the Young Vic’s Five Plays. Fiona has been the recipient of the Irish Theatre Institute’s Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary and Residency Award in association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, a Cill Rialaig Artist residency, a Peggy Ramsay Foundation grant, and has recently been awarded a Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony for their 2018 Winter/Spring season. She has been on attachment at the National Theatre Studio and is currently under commission to the Bridge Theatre. Her work is published by Nick Hern Books and Methuen Drama.
CV
Theatre
Writer
Play for National Theatre for NT Connections 2018.
Play set in rural Ireland about the challenges facing a young generation and the seductive pull of emigration
Play looking at conflict in Ireland across three generations
Short play presented as part of Miniaturists
Short play presented as part of Miniaturists