Dramatic Writing

Education

BA in English and Theater, Bowling Green University

Biography

Mary Gallagher is a playwright, screenwriter and television writer. Her screenplays for Paramount, MGM, HBO, NBC, CBS, Lifetime and Showtime include Nobody's Child (co-writer Ara Watson; Dir. Lee Grant; CBS, 1986), Bonds Of Love (CBS, 1993), and The Passion Of Ayn Rand (SHOWTIME, 1999). Her next film is Hard-Headed Women and will be an independent feature. Her plays, including Father Dreams, Little Bird, Chocolate Cake, Buddies, Dog Eat Dog, Love Minus, How To Say Good-Bye, De Donde? and Windshook have been published by the Dramatists Play Service and produced at such theatre as the Vineyard Theatre, The American Place Theatre, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Women's Project, HOME, the Provincetown Playhouse and the New York Shakespeare Festival. She is currently writing episodes for a new animated series, Jojo's Circus, and writing a new play. She is the Artistic Director of Gypsy, a theatre company in Ulster County, NY. Honors and awards include the Guggenheim, the Rockefeller, the NYFA, two NEAs, an NEA/TCG Residency Grant, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Rosenthal Prize, the Berrilla Kerr Award and three grants from the Duchess County Arts Council.