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Abbie Spallen

ABBIE SPALLEN

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Rose Cobbe

Abbie Spallen was awarded the Dublin City Council Bursary for Literature in 2005 and was the recipient of the Tony Doyle Award 2007 for her first feature length screenplay SEVEN DRUNKEN KNIGHTS. Her play PUMPGIRL played at the Bush Theatre, Traverse and MTC and was awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and Stuart Parker Trust Major Award as well as being nominated for the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play. It has since been performed across America and, most recently, in Finland. Abbie's most recent play, STRANDLINE, was nominated for both the Meyer Whitworth and Susan Smith Blackburn Awards. Both PUMPGIRL and STRANDLINE are published by Faber. She has completed attachments at the Royal Court and National Theatre. She has been awarded bursaries by the Arts Counil of Northern Ireland and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and recently won the Halma Foundation Award for ExcEllence in the European Arts.

Research:    http://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=1708

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         Abeyance         Alice Kyteler         Bogwog         Epiphany         Lally The Scut         Pumpgirl         Rubberfoot         Shaving the Pickle         Strandline         Thirteen         Two Magpies

Abeyance

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Druid Theatre Company    2001

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Alice Kyteler

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Rehearsed Reading Galloglass Theatre Company    -

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Bogwog

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Rehearsed Reading At Rose Barn Theater, Waterford, Ct    25 Jul 2005

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Epiphany

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part of Semper Fi's "Another 24 Hours"

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Semper Fi    -

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Lally The Scut

Lally The Scut
The child's down a hole, the mother's up to high doh, the town's up in arms and humanity's down the drain. Uproarious, occasionally macabre and always compelling, Lally the Scut draws a line in the mud for Northern Ireland. A powerful drama  earthy, irreverent, honest, disturbing, forceful and funny. See it or regret it.

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1st Produced:
Belfast: Old Museum Arts Centre, 7 College Square N, Belfast BT1 6AR    14 Apr 2015

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Tinderbox Theatre Company

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Faber & Faber, London   978-0571326440

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political satire

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Pumpgirl

Pumpgirl
series of monologues about marital infidelity and the gang rape of a petrol-station attendant in the badlands of County Armagh.
Charles Spence, Daily Telegraph

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Winner of 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

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Bush Theatre

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Faber and Faber (3 Aug 2006)   978-0571234226

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Rubberfoot

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Pentabus    2009

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Shaving the Pickle

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New York the future. Coney Island is a detention centre. the only train that runs is the 6. It is swelteringly hot. Bob shares his shelter with an old woman. A former stripper turns up and everything changes

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1st Irish Festival 2008

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Origin Theatre Company, New York    2008

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Strandline

Strandline
If you push too far, secrets will out . . . Following the death of her husband, Mairin, an artist and an outsider living in a small coastal village in Northern Ireland, gathers three local women to her house. Each of the women has a reason for being there and a bloody good reason not to be. these women have secrets. This community has secrets. And, as the evening passes, Mairin learns more than she bargained for about the man she had loved.

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Faber and Faber (3 Dec 2009)   978-0571255719

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Thirteen

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Part of 'Women, Power & Politics'

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Two Magpies

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Ebs Dublin Festival    -

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