Owen McCafferty (born 1961) is a playwright from

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label=Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is #Descriptions, variously described as ...

Early life

Born in

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...

, McCafferty in 1961 he was brought up in London from the age of 1 until aged 10 when his parents returned to Belfast. He was educated at St Augustine's Secondary School, the College of Business Studies and then the University of Ulster where he studied Philosophy and History.

Career

His play '' Scenes from the Big Picture'', originally produced in 2003 at the National Theatre in London, earned him the John Whiting Award, the Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award for New Playwriting and the Meyer-Whitworth Award. It was the first time any playwright had won all three awards in one year. McCafferty has also adapted J P Miller's '' Days of Wine and Roses'' but only used the skeleton of the original. McCafferty's writing features the language and complexities, both comic and tragic, of Belfast life. Like

John Millington Synge Edmund John Millington Synge (; 16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His best known play '' The Playboy of the Western World'' was poorly ...

, McCafferty's dialogue is highly stylized. McCafferty is a member of

Aosdána Aosdána ( , ; from , 'people of the arts') is an Irish association of artists. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers with support from the country's Arts Council. Membership, which is by invitation from current member ...

.Mike McCormack elected to Aosdána
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Plays

* I won't dance don't ask me * Mojo Mickybo * Cold Comfort * Freefalling * Shoot the Crow * Closing Time * Scenes from the Big Picture * The Absence of Women * Titanic (Scenes from The British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry 1912) * Quietly * Unfaithful * Fire Below * Death of a Comedian

Screenplays

* '' Ordinary Love'' (2019)

Films based on his plays

Mickybo and Me ''Mickybo and Me'' is a 2004 Northern Irish comedy-drama film written and directed by Terry Loane and based on the stage play ''Mojo Mickybo'' by Owen McCafferty. The film was produced by Working Title Films and released by Universal Studios. Pl ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:McCafferty, Owen Male dramatists and playwrights from Northern Ireland 1961 births Living people