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Marilyn Elsie Imrie (20 November 1947 – 21 August 2020) was a Scottish theatre and
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director and producer.


Career

Marilyn Imrie worked in drama and broadcasting in Scotland and England for over thirty years as a producer and director, for the
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, Bona Broadcasting, CBL, CIM,
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and Sweet Talk. She was a drama producer in radio and television in
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for twelve years before moving to
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to devise and launch the
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soap ''
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'' in 1987, then drama commissioning editor for BBC Radio 4 until 1999. Imrie was a script executive for BBC Scotland Television drama, a drama development executive for three major independent companies and a producer and director in radio drama and in the theatre. She was awarded
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, TRIC and Talkies awards for her radio production work, the
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for television drama for ''Paris'' (BBC Scotland for
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) and an
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for her work on the animation series ''
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'', starring
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and
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. Her
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work included twenty ''
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'' plays, twenty-three of '' The Stanley Baxter Playhouse'', eight '' Two Pipe Problems'', four series of ''
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''s: ''
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'', '' The Book of Love'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. Theatre work includes: ''
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'' by Jules Horne for the Traverse Theatre/BBC Scotland, '' Lie Down Comic'' by
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, '' The Bones Boys'' by Colin MacDonald for Òran Mór, '' Elsie and Mairi Go To War'' by
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'' adapted by Hattie Naylor for Òran Mór, ''Mortimer's Miscellany'' for the Henley Festival, and
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and Edward Fox in their theatre entertainment '' English Eccentrics''. She was joint-chair of the board of Stellar Quines Theatre Company and a trustee of the new writing theatre company
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. Imrie divided her working and home life between
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and London.


Personal life

Daughter of John Campbell Imrie, of Redroofs,
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, Scotland, Marilyn Imrie married twice, the first (to actor
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) ending in divorce, the second in 1985 to the novelist and film-maker
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, the son of
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, the former
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. Imrie had two daughters: Rosie Kellagher is a freelance theatre director who won an Arches Award for Directors in 2007, and directed ''
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, ''Mother Father Son'' and '' Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine'' for radio; and Charlotte Runcie, a writer and poet.''Charlotte Runcie'' web site
/ref> The family lived in Edinburgh, Scotland. Marilyn Imrie died at home in Edinburgh on 21 August 2020 from
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.


Radio plays

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Sources:
Marilyn Imrie's radio play listing at Diversity website



Stage plays


References

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