Marie Jones

Born in Belfast, Marie was writer in residence for Charabanc Theatre Company from 1983 to 1990. Marie’s plays have toured extensively throughout the world including the former Soviet Union, Germany, coast to coast America, Canada, Britain and Ireland. Her recent plays include an adaptation of The Government Inspector, which toured Britain and Ireland; A Night in November (London, Glasgow, New York and three tours of Ireland); Women on the Verge of HRT (Belfast, Dublin, London’s Vaudeville Theatre and three UK and Ireland tours); Eddie Bottoms Dream and Stones in His Pockets. Stones has toured Ireland, played the Dublin Theatre Festival, Lyric Belfast, Grand Opera House, Belfast, Edinburgh Festival and Tricycle Theatre prior to opening in London’s West End
and has since been presented in Toronto, New York, Iceland, Scandinavia, Israel, Australia, South Africa – with a North America tour scheduled for next year along
with a world tour.

Other dramas include Lay Up Your Ends (co-written with Martin Lynch), Oul Delph and False Teeth; Girls in the Big Picture; Somewhere Over the Balcony; The Hamster Wheel; The Terrible Twins; Under Napoleons Nose; Hiring Days; Don’t Look Down; Yours TruZy; The Cow, the Ship and the Indian; Christmas Eve Can Kill You; Its a Woste ofTime Tracy; Gold in the Streets; Now You’re Talking; Hang All the Harpers (co-written with Shane Connaughton) and Ethel Workman Is Innocent.

Marie’s drama work for BBC Radio Four includes The Hamster Wheel, Christmas Eve Can Kill You; Weddins Weeins and Wakes; The Woman in the Pink Silk Dressing Gown; From Donegal with Love and The Blind Fiddler of Glenadauch. Her writing for BBC TV includes a three-part drama series Tribes, Fighting with Shadows and The Hamster Wheel. For Channel 4 she has written The Wingnut and the Sprog. As an actress, Marie has performed in most of the major theatres in Ireland with many Irish touring companies. She has toured internationally in many productions, several of which she wrote. She has worked extensively for BBC Radio Four in numerous productions playing a variety of characters from Natasha in Brian Friel’s adaptation of The Three Sisters to a cow in Gerry Stembridge’s Daisy the Cow Who Talked.

Marie’s television acting credits include Lift After Lift; You, Me and Marley; Space Oddity and Rebel Heart. Her film work includes Hush-a-Bye Baby; The End of the World; All Things Bright and Beautiful, the role of Sarah Conlon in In the Name of the Father and George Best’s mother in the film Best.

A Night in November, which appeared off Broadway in New York won the TMA Award for Best Touring Production and the Glasgow Mayfest Award. Stones in His Pockets won the 1999 Irish Times, Irish Theatre Award for Best Production and Best Actor, The Evening Standard and The Laurence Olivier Best Comedy Awards. Marie ]ones was also recipient of the John Hewitt Award for her contribution to the Cultural Traditions debate.

Marie ]ones is represented by Curtis Brown Group Ltd.