About suehealy
Literary Manager at the Finborough, Sue Healy is a playwright with a track record in stage and radio. Her most recent play, Imaginationship (2018), enjoyed a sold out, extended run at the Finborough and was later selected for a staged-reading at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.
Her previous stage productions include Cow (Etcetera Theatre, 2017) and Brazen (King’s Head Theatre, 2016), funded by Arts Council England. Her short plays have been performed at the Criterion (Criterion New Writing Showcase), Arcola (The Miniaturists) and Hackney Attic (Fizzy Sherbet Shorts by Women). Her radio work includes nine plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (Opening Lines winner), WLRfm and KCLR96fm.
She has been an interviewed finalist for BBC Scriptroom 12, Eamonn Keane Playwriting Prize, Nick Darke Award and Old Vic 12 New Voices. Her screenplay was shortlisted for the Shorelight Award.
Sue’s prose has won The Molly Keane Award, HISSAC Prize, Escalator Award, Meridian Prize and has been published in nine literary journals and anthologies including: The Moth, Flight, Tainted Innocence, New Writer, Duality, HISSAC, New European Writers. She has been writer-in-residence on Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, and at the Heinrich Boll Cottage on Achill Island. She has also benefitted from annual artist residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and at Ginestrelle, Assisi in Italy.
Sue is Irish. She spent eleven years in Budapest, editing Hungary A.M. She has a PhD in modern theatre history (Royal Court Theatre) and is a UEA Creative Writing MA alumna. Sue is currently an Associate Lecturer in Playwriting at the University of Lincoln and the University of Portsmouth. She tutors Creative Writing at City Lit.
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December 15th, 2011 at 13:44
Congratulations!
December 15th, 2011 at 13:53
must be all de blaas bouy ! sorry geirel ! an de learge bohhles dowen de towen.
richard in waterford
December 15th, 2011 at 13:55
:))
December 15th, 2011 at 14:28
That’s fantastic, congratulations!
December 15th, 2011 at 15:16
Well done!
December 15th, 2011 at 15:21
Congratulations!
December 15th, 2011 at 16:32
Excellent!
December 15th, 2011 at 17:07
Well done and many congratulations – what a lovely pre-Christmas present – Diane
December 15th, 2011 at 17:15
Yay! Huge congrats!!
December 15th, 2011 at 17:43
Awe! I’m so excited for you!! I absolutely relish your writing and guidance, so the recognition is going to someone who really deserves it! What an interesting concept too! YIPPEE!
December 15th, 2011 at 18:06
Congratulations and agree that it’s a great pre-Christmas gift!
December 15th, 2011 at 19:32
Congratulations!
December 15th, 2011 at 21:21
Wonderful news. Congratulations!
December 16th, 2011 at 10:44
As we old hippies used to say; right on, right on, right on! Congrats!
December 16th, 2011 at 12:56
Am happy for you.
December 16th, 2011 at 21:06
Congrats on all your writing success!
December 16th, 2011 at 23:30
Congratulations…. 🙂
December 17th, 2011 at 20:45
Congratulations!
December 17th, 2011 at 22:50
Happy for you. To be recognized is a huge thing.
Susannah Bianchi
December 17th, 2011 at 23:22
Congratulations Sue.
The play sounds wonderful. Well done.
December 21st, 2011 at 18:51
Congratulations, Sue! I’ll have a glass of bubbly in your honor today. 🙂
(And I want to see more of what the graffiti artist is working on in the pic you posted.)
December 27th, 2011 at 20:04
hum – best pull my finger out in 2012 and get some recognition too! Well done Sue
November 6th, 2016 at 17:42
Just listened online. Loved it. So entertaining. Relevant and very funny. “My tongue is not long enough to tell you how much I suffered.” or “I feel like I’ve been sprayed from a can. I feel alive!” That’s a line I would love to repeat to someone (with due credit, of course). Looking forward listening to your other plays. Thanks for brightening my Sunday. Bendy Boy — that’s a new one I haven’t heard before LOL
November 6th, 2016 at 17:55
Thank you very much, that’s lovely praise. It’s heartening to think my writing has added to someone’s day. x