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Nancy Harris

NANCY HARRIS

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    Rochelle Stevens & Co   

Nancy Harris was born and raised in Dublin. Theatre credits include; No Romance (Abbey Theatre), the Kreutzer Sonata (the Gate Theatre), Little Dolls (the Bush Theatre), Love In A Glass Jar (the Abbey Theatre). She has been a writer on attachment at the Soho Theatre and National Theatre Studio respectively and has had work produced with Mind the Gap Theatre Company New York. Her radio credits include Love In A Glass Jar and the five part woman's hour Drama series Blood In the Bridal Shop co-written with Louise Ramsden, both for BBC Radio 4. Nancy has also written for television. She is currently the Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Bush Theatre.

Research:    http://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=16761

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         Baddies: The Musical         Best Years Of Your Life, The         Cleanest Way To End It, The         Girl In A Bath         House Next Door, The         Journey To X         Kreutzer Sonata, The         Little Dolls         Love In A Glass Jar         Man With the Disturbingly Smelly Foot, The         No Romance         Our New Girl         Reasons To Settle For Less

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Baddies: The Musical

Synopsis:
Sure, I eat people's grandmothers once in a while, but that doesn't make me a bad person. . .it makes me a good villain. The Big Bad Wolf's in trouble - he's been ripped out of his story and thrown in jail for being too good at being bad. But being the villain's the best part, everyone knows that. . .This Christmas, someone's decided to change the fairytale rulebook and no-one seems to know why. How are you supposed to tell who the good guys are when there are no baddies around? Step into the lives of everyone's favourite villainous characters and find out. This sublimely entertaining and larger-than-life new family show is sure to be the baddest musical in town!

Notes:
Book and Lyrics by Nancy Harris; Music and Lyrics by Marc Teitler; Story by Nancy Harris and Marc Teitler

1st Produced:
Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, More London, Southwark, London SE1 2HZ >>>    " 03 Nov 2015

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Genre:
childrens' musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Best Years Of Your Life, The

Synopsis:
the Best Years of Your Life is an anthology of blistering new plays charting some of the most turbulent and vital birthdays of our lives: from sweet 16 to 25, from adolescence to adulthood.

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part of Internationally Acclaimed new writing company nabokov returns to HighTide Festival with 5 Birthdays from this pioneering project

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nabokov

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Genre:
short play

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Cleanest Way To End It, The

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Girl In A Bath

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part of Britbits 3, An evening of new one-act plays for or About the British

1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner Theatre, NY     2008

Organisations:
Mind the Gap Theatre

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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House Next Door, The

House Next Door, The
the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the english language. the KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken english.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. the curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, Drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. the voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. all the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush theatre and Westminster abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient Arts of writing and spoken performance

Notes:
Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is A response to the King James Bible book of Obadiah

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849432276

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piece

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Journey To X

Journey To X
A group of young people are on a mission to get to London for the open audition of the world's most popular talent show, before it's too late. they have to find a name for their group, an outfit that doesn't make them look ridiculous, some fake ID and a way to pay for their flights without alerting their parents. they also have to find five hundred quid and fast. . .because their journey for fame and fortune is really a journey for something far less glamorous. Something their country doesn't approve of, something their parents wouldn't condone. It's a decision only one of them can make, whether she wants to or not.

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National Theatre Connections

1st Published:
in National Theatre Connections 2012, Methuen Drama (15 Mar 2012)
Published in an extended version for the Market theatre, Johannesburg, by Oberon Books   978-1408157244

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Genre:
Youth play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  10

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Kreutzer Sonata, The

Kreutzer Sonata, The
sexual jealousy told from the viewpoint of the wronged husband rather than the wife or her lover

Notes:
from the short story by Leo Tolstoy

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Oberon Books, London >>>    978-1840029536

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 1208

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Little Dolls

Little Dolls
You're very, very right to be afraid of the dark. Vicky seeks counselling in John to overcome her intense fear of darkness. But what if there really is some truth in her anxiety, what if the darkness really is a disease. . .

Notes:
Part of the Broken Space Season - plays that Are performed either with domestic lighting or in semi-darkness

1st Produced:
Bush Theatre, London, Eur >>>     23 Oct 2008

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVIII (2008) Page 1204

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Love In A Glass Jar

Love In A Glass Jar
A sterile liasion in a hotel room threatens to spill over into real life.

Notes:
part of 20:Love play readings

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Man With the Disturbingly Smelly Foot, The

Synopsis:
Philoctetes has been deserted by Odysseus because he has a disgustingly smelly foot. Odysseus also left Philoctetes with a magical bow and arrow that he needs.

Notes:
By Nancy Harris, based on Sophocles' Philoctetes

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TYA

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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No Romance

No Romance
a tender and funny tale about our secret selves a play about our search for connection in a fractured world. Rich with the absurdities, hypocrisies and vulnerabilities that course through our lives, it playfully observes the longings, fears and desires we reveal - and don't reveal - in our closest relationships. Laura has a secret. Joe's has been revealed. Peg's been keeping hers for years.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Our New Girl

Our New Girl
a startling psychological Drama about the darker side of modern parenthood. Behind the shiny door of Hazel Robinson's immaculate London home, things aren't as good as they look. Her plastic surgeon husband, Richard, has embarked on his latest charitable mission to Haiti, leaving the heavily pregnant Hazel to cope with a failing business and a problem son. When a professional nanny arrives unannounced on her doorstep, Hazel finds her home under the shadow of a seemingly perfect stranger, and one who has an agenda of her own.

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Genre:
thriller

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  1 boy

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Reasons To Settle For Less

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Part of Miniaturists 8 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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