Mark O'Rowe is an
Irish playwright
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and
screenwriter
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.
Life
Mark O'Rowe was born in 1970 in
Dublin, Ireland
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, 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
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, 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.
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
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Credits as a screenwriter
* ''
Intermission
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* ''
Perrier's Bounty''
* ''
Boy A''
* ''
Broken''
* ''
The Delinquent Season''
* ''
Normal People (TV series)
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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
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for the Best Screenplay in 2003 for
Intermission
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References
External links
*
Mark O'Rowe's Literary Encyclopedia Entry
1970 births
Living people
Irish dramatists and playwrights
Irish male dramatists and playwrights
Irish screenwriters
Irish male screenwriters
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