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From Waterford, Ireland, Sue Healy (born 24 July 1970) is a short-story writer, playwright, radio dramatist, screenwriter and academic. A full-time Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln. She holds a PhD in modern theatre history (The Royal Court Theatre in the early 1970s) for which she won a fees scholarship. She also has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Healy is Literary Manager at the Finborough Theatre, London. She lives in Brook Green, West London.

Her most recent academic publication is The Literary Manager’s Toolkit (Routledge, 2023). Three of her full-length stage-plays have run in London, Imaginationship at The Finborough, 2018, (and later at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough), COW (Etcetera Theatre, 2017) and Brazen (King’s Head Theatre, 2016).

Healy has had nine radio plays broadcast, including ‘Mussels’, a prose drama which won BBC Radio 4’s Opening Lines.

Her own TV project, TRAFADDEN, a 6x60minute TV series, is under option with Playhouse Studios. In 2022, she was commissioned to co-write THE GHOST OF AVERY HALL a 8x30minute ‘dramady’ set in an English boarding school, for Lone Wolf Media.

Earlier Career

Following a stint at art college at the Limerick School of Art and Design, and some years in Paris and La Napoule, France, Healy launched her career as a print and radio journalist in Ireland in 1994. She later moved to Budapest, Hungary in early 1997, where she worked in the local English language media, eventually editing Hungary A.M., a daily news-digest in English run by the Budapest Business Journal. After a dozen years in Budapest, Healy relocated to the UK in 2008.

Prose:

Her prose has won The Molly Keane Award, HISSAC Prize, Escalator Award. Additionally, her short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies including: The Moth, Flight, Tainted Innocence, New Writer Magazine, Duality and New European Writers.

Residencies:

Healy has been writer-in-residence on Inis Oírr, Aran Islands and at the Heinrich Boll Cottage on Achill Island. Sue was named a 2023 Hawthornden Castle Fellow. She has also benefitted from annual artist residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and at Ginestrelle, Assisi in Italy.

Her playwriting has additionally been recognised, supported and platformed by Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, MGCfutures, Arts Council England, The BAI,The John Hodgson Theatre Research Trust, The Claremorris Fringe Award (winner), The Fund For Women Graduates, The Francis W. Reckitt Arts Trust, The Sussex Playwrights’ Award, The Ted and Mary O’Regan Arts Bursary.