Daragh Carville (born in Armagh in 1969) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and educator. He is best known for co-creating and writing the ITV crime drama '' The Bay'', first broadcast on ITV in 2019, attracting an average audience of over seven million viewers.

Career

Stage

Theatre credits include ''Language Roulette'' ( Bush Theatre, London and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), ''Observatory'' (Peacock Theatre, Dublin) and ''This Other City'' (Grand Opera House, Belfast). Carville has won the Stewart Parker and the Meyer-Whitworth awards. His new play ''The Life and Times of Mitchell & Kenyon'' opened at the Dukes Theatre, Lancaster in April 2014. His radio credits include '' Regenerations'' (BBC Radio 3), which features on the BBC Audio release '' Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays'', and ''Dracula'' (BBC Radio 4) starring Michael Fassbender.

Screen

Carville's first feature film, ''Middletown'', premiered at the

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in New York in 2006. The film, which stars Matthew Macfadyen,

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and

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, was directed by

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and produced by Michael Casey of Green Park Films. It was nominated in nine categories at the 2007

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, including Best Film and Best Screenplay, with Eva Birthistle picking up the award for Best Actress. Carville's second film, '' Cherrybomb'', starring

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and directed by Glenn Leyburn and

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, was selected for the Generations section of the 2009 Berlin Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2009

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. ''Cherrybomb'' went on general release in the UK and Ireland in April 2010, distributed by Universal. The second series of ''The Bay'' screened on ITV in 2021, a third broadcast in 2022, with a fourth series in production. In addition to ''The Bay'', other television work included episodes of

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’s '' Being Human'', BBC Northern Ireland's student drama ''6Degrees'' and the Kudos/ Sky One firefighter drama ''

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''.

Personal life

Carville lives in Lancaster with his wife, novelist Jo Baker, and their two children. He currently teaches Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London.

References

External links

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Profile
at BBC Website for ''6Degrees'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Carville, Daragh Living people 1969 births 21st-century writers from Northern Ireland Male dramatists and playwrights from Northern Ireland British male television writers Screenwriters from Northern Ireland Television writers from Northern Ireland 21st-century British screenwriters Alumni of the University of Kent