Jaki McCarrick

Jaki McCarrick won the 2010 Papatango New Writing Prize for her play Leopoldville, and her play Belfast Girls, developed at the National Theatre London, was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the 2014 BBC Tony Doyle Award. Belfast Girls premiered in Chicago in May 2015 to much critical acclaim (Windy City Times Critics' Pick) and has since had numerous international productions. In 2016 Jaki was shortlisted for St. John's College Cambridge's Harper-Wood Studentship for her short play Tussy about Eleanor Marx, a piece she is currently developing for Kibo Productions. She was longlisted for the new Irish Laureate.