Mark O'Rowe
{{Short description|Irish playwright and screenwriter}}
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Mark O'Rowe is an Irish playwright and screenwriter.
Life
Mark O'Rowe was born in 1970 in Dublin, Ireland, to parents Hugh and Patricia O'Rowe (to whom he dedicated his 1999 play, Howie the Rookie). He grew up in Tallaght, a working-class outer suburb of Dublin City in South Dublin, and he claims that much of the violence in his work stems from watching and rewatching a tremendous amount of violent, bloody movies when he was in his teens.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/nov/24/theatre1|title=Fiachra Gibbons meets Intermission writer Mark O'Rowe|date=24 November 2003|newspaper=The Guardian|first=Fiachra|last=Gibbons}}
List of plays
- The Approach (2018)
- Our Few and Evil Days (2014)
- Terminus (2007)
- Howie the Rookie (1999)
- The Aspidistra Code (1995)
- Anna's Ankle
- From Both Hips
- Crestfall
- Made in China
Credits as a screenwriter
Awards and nominations
= As a playwright =
- Irish Times/ESB Theatre Award for Best New Play for Howie the Rookie.
- George Devine Award for Best New Play for Howie The Rookie.
- Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Howie the Rookie in 1999.
= As a screenwriter =
- He won the IFTA Award for the Best Screenplay in 2003 for Intermission
References
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External links
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- [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5502 Mark O'Rowe's Literary Encyclopedia Entry]
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Category:Irish dramatists and playwrights
Category:Irish male dramatists and playwrights
Category:Irish male screenwriters
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