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Ross Dungan

ROSS DUNGAN

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  represented by Camilla Young

Ross is a graduate of the Advanced Playwriting Course in Trinity College Dublin, taught by Marina Carr. He is also one-third of the hugely successful Irish sketch-comedy group A Betrayal of Penguins who have experienced hugely successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe in the past two years. His play, Minute after Midday which follows three people affected by the Omagh bombing, won a Fringe First in 2011 and the Life and Sort of Death of eric Argyle was nominated for Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards in 2013 and is currently on at Soho Theatre. Ross currently writes for RTe's Fair City and for a number of projects for Tilted Pictures.

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below is a list of Ross Dungan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         100 Minutes 2008         100 Minutes 2009         Before Monsters Were Made         Betrayal Of Penguins: Don't Run With Scissors, A         Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, The         Minute After Midday         Reckoners

100 Minutes 2008

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100 Minutes 2009

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Before Monsters Were Made

Before Monsters Were Made
Set in 1968 and 1972 in a small Irish village. When a girl goes missing attention settles on piano tutor Vincent Colgan.

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Bloomsbury 2015   978-1474264501

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Thriller

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Betrayal Of Penguins: Don't Run With Scissors, A

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A kids tv show goes wrong

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Written by Ross Dungan and Matthew Smyth

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Guilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh     04 Aug 2010

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Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, The

Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, The
Eric Argyle is having a bad Sunday. It's late. He's still in his pyjamas. A room full of people are staring at him. And he died at 11.42am, two days ago. An issue that people don't seem all that receptive to.

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Nominated for Best New Play at the Irish Times theatre Awards, Ross Dungan's the Life and Sort of Death of eric Argyle premiered at the Pleasance Dome in Edinburgh in August 2012 before transferring to Dublin. It debuted in London at the Soho theatre on 2 April 2013.

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Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     01 Aug 2012

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15th Oak

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Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London (2013)   978-1472521682

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Minute After Midday

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Elizabeth Cosgrove is staring through the shop window at the Denim jacket soon to be hers. Conor McKeating looks on as his brother frantically sprints down the hill towards their car, while Mari Jennings is waiting at home, by herself, for her husband who she believe to be at a Tyrone match across town. Its the 15th of august, 1998, 17 seconds past noon, a normal, busy Saturday on Lower Market Street. In 43 seconds many lives will be changed forever. a haunting new Irish play which looks back at the terror and tragedy of the day of the Omagh bombing through the eyes of three people. Three stories told through a series of beautifully interwoven monologues reveal the heartache, remorse and regrets of that day and the hope for new beginnings.

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe     01 Aug 2011

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15th Oak Productions

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Reckoners

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Conal McCarthy born in a forsaken village murders a relative. Twenty years later he comes back having served his time. The last remaining member of his family Jamie McHugh has been tasked to murder him

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Tiger Dublin Fringe     2014

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