Owen McCafferty

Owen McCafferty (born 1961) is a playwright from Northern Ireland.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, McCafferty held several jobs, including tiling and working in an abattoir, before becoming a full-time writer. His play Scenes from the Big Picture, originally produced in 2003 at the National Theatre in London, earned him the John Whiting Award, the Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award for New Playwriting and the Meyer-Whitworth Award. It was the first time any playwright had won all three awards in one year.

McCafferty has also adapted J P Miller's Days of Wine and Roses but only used the skeleton of the original.

McCafferty's writing features the language and complexities, both comic and tragic, of Belfast life. Like Synge, McCafferty's dialogue is highly stylized and his vocabulary burst with strange compounds and coined words yet the sense of what is being said is never lost.

List of Plays

• Mojo Mickybo
• Cold Comfort
• Freefalling
• Shoot the Crow
• Closing Time
• Scenes from the Big Picture

List of Films based on his Plays

• Mickybo and Me

See also

• List of Northern Irish writers
• Gary Mitchell
• Brian Friel
• Tom Murphy
• Sean O'Casey
• John Millington Synge
• Marina Carr
• Stewart Parker