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Daragh Carville

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Daragh Carville

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1969-01-01 (Armagh)
Nationality
Irish
Languages
English
Residence History
Armagh → Lancaster

Career

Occupations
playwright, screenwriter, educator
Active Years
1990-2024
Affiliations
Birkbeck, University of London
Nominations
Irish Film and Television Awards (Middletown)

Awards

Stewart Parker Trust Award
Organization: Stewart Parker Trust
Result: winner
Meyer-Whitworth Award
Result: winner
Belfast Film Festival Audience Award
2009
Work: Cherrybomb
Organization: Belfast Film Festival
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Bay

2019 crime drama

ITV crime drama series, co-created and written by him.

crimefamily

Middletown

2006 film

His first feature film.

Adaptations
  • [film] Middletown / Brian Kirk (2006)

Cherrybomb

2009 film

Second film, selected for Berlin Film Festival.

Adaptations
  • [film] Cherrybomb / Glenn Leyburn, Lisa Barros d’Sa (2010)

Language Roulette

stage play

Performed at Bush Theatre and Traverse Theatre.

Observatory

stage play

Peacock Theatre, Dublin.

This Other City

stage play

Grand Opera House, Belfast.

The Life and Times of Mitchell & Kenyon

2014 stage play

Opened at Dukes Theatre, Lancaster.

Legacy

Irish playwright and screenwriter best known for The Bay.

Trivia

  • Married to novelist Jo Baker.
  • Teaches Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London.