Mark O'Rowe

Mark O'Rowe is an Irish playwright and screenwriter.

Life and career

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.^[1]

Works

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

Film and television

• Intermission
• Perrier's Bounty
• Boy A
• Broken
• The Delinquent Season
• Normal People (TV series)

Accolades

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

See also

• List of Irish dramatists