Christina Reid
{{Short description|Irish playwright (1942–2015)}}
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Christina Reid (12 March 1942 – 31 May 2015) was an Irish playwright.{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/readersguidetomo0000ster_z4x4| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/readersguidetomo0000ster_z4x4/page/135 135]| quote=Christina Reid.| title=A reader's guide to modern Irish drama| author=Sanford V. Sternlicht| publisher=Syracuse University Press| year= 1998| isbn= 978-0-8156-2773-9 }}{{cite news | last = Coveney | first = Michael | title = Christina Reid obituary | newspaper = The Guardian | date = 2015-06-05 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jun/05/christina-reid | accessdate = 2015-06-08}}
Life
Reid was born in North Belfast. She left school in 1957 and married in 1963.{{Cite web |title=Reid, Christina {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/reid-christina-a10241 |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=www.dib.ie}}
She enrolled at Queen's University Belfast in 1981 but winning a BBC playwrighting competition and becoming a single parent following a divorce meant she did not complete the course.
Reid was a writer-in-residence at the Lyric Theatre,{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/irishplaywrights0000unse| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/irishplaywrights0000unse/page/300 300]| quote=Christina Reid.| title= Irish playwrights, 1880-1995: a research and production sourcebook|editor=Bernice Schrank |editor2=William W. Demastes| publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group| year= 1997| isbn= 978-0-313-28805-0 }} and at the Young Vic.{{cite web |url=http://www.irishplayography.com/search/person.asp?PersonID=3174 |title=Irish Playography |accessdate=2010-03-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118072838/http://www.irishplayography.com/search/person.asp?PersonID=3174 |archivedate=2007-11-18 }} Reid was a scriptwriter on BBC Radio 4's drama series Citizens.
Reid was a Patron of YouthAction Northern Ireland, a charity working to inspire young people. One of its projects is the Rainbow Factory which has over 450 young people participating a range of classes, workshops and performances.
Private life
She was mother to three daughters, Heidi, Tara and Siubhan.
Awards
- Thames Television Playwriting Award for "Tea in a China Cup"
- 1980 Ulster Television Drama Award, "Did You Hear the One About the Irishman?"
- 1986 George Devine Award for "The Belle of Belfast City"
Selected works
=Plays=
- Tea In A China Cup, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1983
- Did You Hear The One About The Irishman . . .?, New York, 1985
- Joyriders, Tricycle Theatre, London, 1986
- The Belle Of Belfast City, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1989
- My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name? Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin, 1989
- Les Misérables, Nottingham Playhouse, 1992
- The King of the Castle, Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London, 1999
- Clowns, The Room, Orange Tree, Richmond, 1996
- A Year And A Day, National Theatre, London, 2007 {{cite web|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsR/reid-christina.html|title=Christina Reid- Playwright Dramatist|work=doollee.com|accessdate=3 June 2015}}
=Books=
- Christina Reid, Plays I, Methuen, 1997. {{ISBN|978-0-413-71220-2}}
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Category:Irish women dramatists and playwrights
Category:Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Category:20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Irish women writers
Category:21st-century Irish dramatists and playwrights
Category:21st-century Irish women writers
Category:Place of birth missing
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