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Ioanna Anderson

IOANNA ANDERSON  

 Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Ioanna Anderson was born in edinburgh and, after escaping to Dublin for quite a long time, now lives there again. She co-founded (with Audrey Devereux and Pam McQueen) Greenlight Productions, which produced her first play Describe Joe (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2000). Describe Joe won the O.Z. Whitehead award. Why I Hate the Circus was produced by Greenlight, in association with the Civic Theatre Tallaght in 2001. Words of advice for Young People was developed by Rough Magic Theatre Company as part of their S.e.e.D.S programme for emerging Artists, and produced by them in 2004 at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Universal export/Nightshift, a short play written for the Gaiety School Graduation Show in 2004. In 2005, Ioanna received an Arts Council bursary to develop the play which later became Six acts of Love, produced by the Tron Theatre (dir, Andy arnold) in 2008. also in 2008, the site specific show You are Here (co-produced by Bedrock/Living Space Theatre companies) for the Dublin Theatre Festival. She has received a bursary from Creative Scotland to work on a novel. If she ever finishes it, it might be called are We Happy Yet?

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         Describe Joe         How To Be A Pantomime Horse         Nightshift         Six Acts Of Love         Why I Hate the Circus         Words Of Advice For Young People         You Are Here

Describe Joe

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How To Be A Pantomime Horse

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How to Be a Pantomime Horse, an unsettlingly surreal and dreamlike playlet in which a woman survives a plane crash
Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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agent 160 theatre Organisations: Short plays. Agent 160 is A new company Aiming to Address the fact that women write just 17 per cent of All theatre work produced in the UK.

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Nightshift

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Six Acts Of Love

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bittersweet play about the rich complexities of life, love and death. Katherine's life has come to a standstill. Her husband, Tom, has left her for a younger woman and her once-glamorous mother Dorothy is slowly losing her mind. as Dorothy's condition worsens, Katherine's stepfather and a new nurse rally to support her. then Tom appears with a sudden announcement that sets them all off on an unexpected journey deep into rural Ireland. . .

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Why I Hate the Circus

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Words Of Advice For Young People

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When the remains of missing writer Harry Golden are discovered, five years after he went missing, his daughters must come to terms with the fact that they are now the grown-ups. along with their partners, the undertaker and the ghost of the undertaker's wife, they are faced with the challenge of burying their father with dignity.

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You Are Here

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