Maeve Larkin
{{Short description|English actor and playwright}}
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| known_for = Play writing and television roles
| notable_works = *Can You Keep A Secret? the Rise And Fall Of the Yorkshire Luddites(2012)
- Don't Shoot the Messenger (2013)
- Troupers (2014)
- Raising Agents (2015)
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Maeve Larkin is an English actor and playwright.
Plays
She has written five plays for the Mikron Theatre Company. In 2012 they performed her Can You Keep A Secret? the Rise And Fall Of the Yorkshire Luddites, in 2013 Don't Shoot the Messenger and in 2014 Troupers. Her 2015 play Raising Agents, celebrating the centenary of the Women's Institutes, was one of the two shows of Mikron's 150-venue 2015 tour; in writing it she worked with the National Federation of Women's Institutes and visited meetings of several WIs.{{cite news|title=Review: Raising Agents by Mikron Theatre Company at Lawrence Batley Theatre|url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/review-raising-agents-mikron-theatre-9048062|accessdate=3 November 2015|work=Huddersfield Daily Examiner|date=15 April 2015}}{{cite journal|last1=Collins|first1=Lucy|title=Raising the Roof|journal=WI Life|date=June 2015|url=http://www.thewi.org.uk%2F__data%2Fassets%2Fpdf_file%2F0009%2F139590%2FRaising-the-roof.pdf|accessdate=3 November 2015}}{{cite web|title=Maeve Larkin|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsL/larkin-maeve.html|publisher=doollee.com|accessdate=3 November 2015}}{{cite book|title=National Tour Programme 2015|date=2015|publisher=Mikron Theatre Company|page=19|chapter=Cast and Crew}} For Mikron's 2017 season she wrote Best Foot Forward, about the Youth Hostels Association.{{cite web|title=Shows: Best Foot Forward|url=https://mikron.org.uk/shows?details=best-foot-forward|publisher=Mikron Theatre Company|accessdate=11 April 2017}}
Television roles
Larkin has had television roles including several in Emmerdale,{{cite web|title=Emmerdale: Episode 7003|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/c6wh2t/emmerdale--episode-7003|publisher=Radio Times|accessdate=3 November 2015}} and appeared with Northern Broadsides in roles including Emilia in their Othello which starred Lenny Henry.{{cite news|last1=Walker|first1=Lynne|title=First Night: Othello, Quarry Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/first-night-othello-quarry-theatre-west-yorkshire-playhouse-leeds-1626089.html|accessdate=3 November 2015|work=The Independent|date=23 October 2011}}
References
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External links
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:English stage actresses
Category:English dramatists and playwrights
Category:English television actresses
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