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JOHN MCGRATH

  (1935 - 2002)
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

John (Peter) McGrath was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire 01 June 1935 from an Irish family. After education in Wales, national service and Oxford University, he wrote and directed for Theatre and television, as well as writing for cinemA. Early work included Z-Cars for BBC-TV (1962), Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun (1966) and the screenplay for Billion Dollar Brain (1967). In 1971, together with Elizabeth MacLennan, he co-founded the 7:84 Theatre Company, which divided into Scottish and English companies in 1973 with McGrath remaining as Artistic Director of both. During his career McGrath wrote over seventy plays, including Fish in the Sea (1972), the Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1973), Blood Red Roses (1980), Border Warfare (1989), Watching for Dolphins (1992) and, most recently, HyperLynx (2001). He was twice Visiting Fellow in Theatre at Cambridge University. His previous books include A Good Night Out (1981), the Bone Won't Break (1990), Six-Pack: Plays for Scotland (1996), and Naked Thoughts that Roam About (2002) and Plays For England (2005). McGrath founded Freeway Films in 1982, for which he produced, amongst others, the Dressmaker (1985), Carrington (1995), Ma Vie en Rose (1997) and Aberdeen (2002). He also founded Moonstone International Screen Labs to support and promote independent European filmmaking. He received Lifetime Achievement Awards from both BAFTA (in 1993) and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain (in 1997), as well as Honorary Doctorates from the University of Stirling and the University of London. He died in 2002.

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        Acts 27         Albannach, The         All the Fun Of the Fair         Angel Of the Morning         Baby And the Bathwater: the Imperial Policeman         Bakke's Night Of Fame         Basement In Bangkok         Behold the Sun         Big Square Fields         Bitter Apples         Blood Red Roses         Boom         Border Warfare         Catch, or, Red Herrings in the Minch, The         Caucasian Chalk Circle, The         Cheviot, The Stag, And the Black, Black Oil         Comrade Jacob         Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun         Fish In the Sea         Game's A Bogey, The         Gold in his Boots         Half the Picture         Hebrides, The         Hover Through the Fog         Hyperlynx         If You Want To Know the Time         In Time of Strife         Invasion, The         Jack         Joe's Drum         John Brown's Body         Last Of the Maceachans, The         Lay Off         Left Our Lady         Life And Times Of Joe Of England, The         Little Red Hen         Mairi Mhor - the Woman from Skye         Man Has Two Fathers, A         Media Star         Mum's the Word         My Pal And Me         Nightclass         On the pig's back, or, The Welfare State skinned alive         Oranges And Lemons         Out Of Our Heads         Out Of Sight         Peace         Plugged into history         Prisoners Of the War         Random Happenings In the Hebrides, Or, The Social Democrat And the Stormy Sea         Rat Trap, The         Reading Rigoberta         Rejoice!         Road to Mandalay, The         Satire Of the Fourth Estate, A         Screw the Bobbin         Seagull, The         Sejeant Musgrae Dances On         Sharpeville Crackers         Silver Darlings, The         Six Men Of Dorset         Soft Or A Girl         Swings and Roundabouts         Take It         Tell Me Tell Me         Tent, The         There is a Happy Land         they're Knocking Down the Pie-Shop         they've Got Out         Trees In the Wind         Trembling Giant         Underneath         Unruly Elements         Watching For Dolphins         Why the Chicken         Wicked Old Man, The         Women In Power; or, Up the Acropolis         Women Of the Dunes, The         Worksong         Yobbo Nowt