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One’s pregnant against her will. One’s a nun who An ambitious music teacher, tempers her affair with a Illiterate young mum enrols in a creative writing class masturbates to hymns. Locked in a Mother and Baby young faithless priest in a strict Catholic school on the to the surprise of everyone around her. Can Lauren Home, they’re forced together to find freedom. brink of an even bigger scandal. write her own happy ending?

KAREN COGAN'S first solo play Drip Feed ran NICK LEE was shortlisted for Screen Ireland’s KIRSTY SMITH is a writer from Keighley, West at the Soho Theatre and was shortlisted for the Catalyst Project for his debut feature script Yorkshire working across TV Theatre & Film. Verity Bargate Award and an Offie Award. Drip Virginia which ultimately received development Her script Dirty Work (co-written with Lucy Feed was script-commissioned for television. funding. Virginia was also the recipient of Dwyer) was a finalist in the Thousand Films Fallen Karen has several original TV projects in formal the Tyrone Guthrie Centre Film Bursary in contest and sitcom Poor Cow was longlisted development with production companies. She 2011. Nick completed the Young Playwrights for the Funny Women Writing Award 2019. is currently working in writers rooms for Sky 1 Programme at the Royal Court, New Writers Working with Lucy Dwyer she is developing a and Sky Atlantic. She wrote on Series 2 of The Programme at the Abbey Dublin, before project with BBC Studios Esther Springer and Young Offenders for BBC. Her script Fled is on workshopping a play with Vicky Jones at writing Super G’s – a feature for Lunar Lander the 2019 Brit List. Karen completed the Channel DryWrite. His first playLuca and the Sunshine was Films (Prod. Michael Berliner). Her play Jane 4 Screenwriting scheme 2019 and is The nominated for Best New Writing on the Dublin Hair: The Bronte’s Restyled (co-written with Kat Phelim Donlon Bursary recipient, The HClub’s Fringe. Nick is a graduate of Trinity College Rose-Martin) is funded by The Bronte Society Emerging Creative and an Arts Councils Next Dublin and now lives in Venice Beach. and set to tour in 2020. Her book ‘How To Have Generation Artist. She has spoken on panels at a Baby & Not Lose Your Shit’(pub. Bennion the Traverse Theatre, The Guilty Feminist and CAST Kearney) is based on her award-winning comedy at RADA and written a monologue for The parenting blog www.eehbahmum.com Father Michael/Andrius/Male Voice Guilty Feminist. JULIAN MOORE-COOK CAST

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