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DAVID IRELAND

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Originally from Belfast, David trained as an actor at the RSAMD in Glasgow. He has worked as an actor with many theatre companies across the UK including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Royal Exchange, the Citizens Theatre Glasgow and the Traverse, Edinburgh. He was Playwright-in-Residence in the Lyric, Belfast, from 2011-2012. His play, Everything Between Us, produced by Tinderbox, won the prestigious Meyer Whitworth Award and the Stewart Parker BBC Radio Drama Award. His first play What the Animals Say was produced at Oran Mor in Glasgow in 2009, and transferred to the Belfast Festival. This was followed by End of Desire (Oran Mor), Yes So I Said Yes (Ransom), Half a Glass of Water (Field Day), Most Favoured (Traverse) Can't Forget About You (Lyric) and The Hen Night (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). For radio he has adapted his play Everything Between Us for BBC Radio 3's The Wire and written an original work Trouble and Shame for BBC Radio Scotland.

PLAYWRITING CREDITS

Play Title Playwright
Can't Forget About You David Ireland
Cyprus Avenue David Ireland
Dear Ireland I Blindboy Boatclub Dermot Bolger Pom Boyd Sinéad Burke Karen Cogan John Connors Carys D. Coburn Kit de Waal Shaun Dunne Iseult Golden Stacey Gregg Sarah Hanly Nancy Harris David Ireland Thomas Kane Byrne Colm Keegan (2) Sonya Kelly Deirdre Kinahan Emmet Kirwan Darach Mac Con Iomaire Manchán Magan Aoife Martyn Owen McCafferty Rosaleen McDonagh Frank McGuinness Meadhbh McHugh Una McKevitt Phillip McMahon Andrea Molino Gina Moxley Jimmy Murphy Zoe Ní Riordáin Edna O'Brien Eva O'Connor Joseph O'Connor (1) John O'Donovan (2) Mark O'Halloran Jody O'Neill Shane O'Reilly Margaret Perry Ursula Rani Sarma Arthur Riordan Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Abbie Spallen Feli Speaks Keith James Walker Enda Walsh Michael West Carmel Winters Zhu Yi
Everything Between Us David Ireland
Half a Glass of Water David Ireland
Summertime David Ireland
Ulster American David Ireland
Yes So I Said Yes David Ireland

ACTOR

Play Title Playwright
Revenge Michael Duke
The Gentlemen's Tea-Drinking Society Richard Dormer
The Winners Rosemary Jenkinson