Marina Carr

Born in 1964, Marina Carr was brought up in County Offaly. She graduated from University College, Dublin, in 1987. Her plays include MARBLE, ULLALOO, THE MAI, PORTIA COUGHLAN, BY THE BOG OF CATS, ARIEL, MEAT AND SALT, ON RAFTERY'S HILL, LOW IN THE DARK, WOMAN AND SCARECROW, THE CORDELIA DREAM, and THE GIANT BLUE HAND. Her awards include the Macaulay Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A member of Aosdána, Marina has been Writer-in-Residence at the Abbey Theatre and Trinity College, Heimbold Professor at Villanova University, and the 1932 fellow at Princeton for 2008. Marina lives in County Kerry with her husband and four children.