About me

Fiona’s work in theatre includes Coolatully (winner of the 2014 Papatango New Writing Prize) at the Finborough Theatre in London, and for Mead Theatre Lab in Washington DC; Deluge (winner of the 2014 Eamon Keane Full-Length Play Award) and The Strange Death of John Doe (2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist) at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs; The Annihilation of Jessie Leadbeater (ALRA); The Ceasefire Babies (NT Connections) and Ms Y (short) as part of the Young Vic’s Five Plays.
Fiona has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including the Irish Theatre Institute’s Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary and Residency Award in association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (subsequently being selected for honorary designation as a Stanford Calderwood Fellow). She has been on attachment at the National Theatre Studio and is currently under commission to the Bridge Theatre, London, and the Everyman Theatre, Cork. TV projects in development include Caroline for Samson Films/RTE. Her work is published by Nick Hern Books and Methuen Drama.

My Plays

Coolatully


Synopsis:

Play set in rural Ireland about the challenges facing a young generation and the seductive pull of emigration.


Number of Characters: 4


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 4


Length (in Pages): 80


Location: Southwest Ireland


Key Words: Comedy, tragedy, drama, young people


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


Award nominations/wins: Papatango New Writing Prize, 2014


Reviews:

'Invokes Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson or Marina Carr... sad as it is, Doyle's play is also extremely funny... an expressive and memorable play'

Exeunt Magazine

 

'Echoes of Brian Friel… Doyle's play tells us, very touchingly, what it is like to be young in rural Ireland today and pins down vividly the tendency to romanticise the past and future to make up for the disquieting present'

Guardian

 

'Doyle's dialogue is instinctive, her characters, distinctive, and her motifs, ripe with meaning'

Time Out

Deluge


Synopsis:

There's something uncanny going on at Joe and Kitty's farm. Precious feed is mysteriously disappearing from the hay shed and prized livestock is being slaughtered at night whilst sinister shadows lurk in the darkness.

With fodder running out and no money left, Joe and Kitty, like their desperate neighbours, will stop at nothing to protect themselves and their cherished land. But at what cost?


Number of Characters: 4


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1


Length (in Pages): 80


Location: Ireland


Key Words: Drama, ghost, love, thriller


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


Award nominations/wins: Eamon Keane Full-length Play Award, 2014


Reviews:

The Ceasefire Babies (NT Connections 2018)


Synopsis:

In a city still divided by crumbling walls, siblings Mikey and Jamie no longer see eye to eye. There's a change in the air and not everyone is ready for it. Jamie wants to reignite the old conflicts of her father and uncle, but Mikey and their friends must decide either to take hold of their own destinies, or allow the ghosts of the past to dictate their futures.


Number of Characters: 12


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 7


Length (in Pages): 60


Location: Northern Ireland


Key Words: Comedy, drama, tragedy, young people


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


Award nominations/wins:


Reviews:

The Strange Death of John Doe


Synopsis:

London, present day. The body of an unidentified young man is found face down in a suburban street. Who is he and where did he come from? He has no ID and nobody witnessed anything. It's as if he has just fallen from the sky…

Pathologists and police working on the case must uncover the truth and piece the story – and body – of this 'John Doe' back together. A breakthrough sends DC John Kavura into overdrive and as his investigation unravels, he uncovers a haunting story of our time.


Number of Characters: 16


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 8


Length (in Pages): 80


Location: Various


Key Words: Drama, love, thriller, tragedy


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


Award nominations/wins: Shortlisted for the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize


Reviews:

'Part police procedural, part on-the-run thriller, The Strange Death of John Doe is intelligently structured… Doyle weaves a remarkable, continent-hopping story of heroism, love and desperation'

The Stage

 

'Doyle offers a kind of poetry on who we are and what we ultimately become'

WhatsOnStage

 

'A sensitive retelling of a very modern tragedy'

Telegraph

 

'An epic account of restless humanity, tender affection and its tragic consequences… an ambitious, theatrically exciting and fast-moving panorama which conveys something of the breath-taking scope of contemporary migration, as well as details of its horrors. At its heart this is a play about humanity in all its truthful feelings, with flashes of perception about racism, injustice, violence, masculinity, memory and the irrepressible desire to follow one's dreams'

The Arts Desk

Location

Ireland

Agent Details

Camilla Young, Curtis Brown

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