Frank McGuinness

Frank McGuinness ( born July 29, 1953 in Buncrana, County Donegal) is an Irish dramatist, poet and translator.

Life

McGuinness studied English Literature at University College Dublin. After graduation, he worked as a lecturer, first at the University of Ulster and then at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is " Writer in Residence " and since 2007 also professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin.

His first dramatic success was Factory Girls ( 1982). Shortly thereafter, he probably had his greatest success with the award- winning play Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (1985).

His collection of poems Booterstown was published in 1994.

McGuinness lives in Booterstown in Dublin.

Work

Plays

  • Mary and Lizzie (RSC, 1989)
  • The Bread Man ( Gate, 1991)
  • Someone Who'll Watch Over Me ( Hampstead, West End and Broadway, 1992)
  • Mutabilitie ( RNT, 1997)

Translations

  • Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen ( RNT, 1987)
  • Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen ( Gate, 1988; RSC)
  • Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov ( Gate and Royal Court, 1990)
  • Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov ( Field Day Production, 1995)
  • Yerma by Federico García Lorca ( Amharclann na Mainistreach, 1987)
  • The Three Penny Opera by Bertolt Brecht ( Gate, 1987)
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht ( RNT, 1997)
  • Electra by Sophocles ( Donmar and Broadway)
  • The Storm by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky ( Almeida )
  • Hecuba by Euripides

Screenplays

  • Talk of Angels ( 1998)
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