Marina is an award-winning playwright based in Dublin whose plays have been produced by The Abbey Theatre, The Gate, Druid, Landmark, The Royal Court, Wyndhams Theatre, The RSC, The Almeida, The Kiln, The MacCarter Theatre, San Diego Rep, and Milwaukee Rep, amongst others.
She has been translated into many languages and produced around the world.
She also wrote a new, contemporary translation of RIGOLETTO for Opera Theatre Company, which toured Ireland in 2015, and wrote an original oratorio MARY GORDON, as part of a commission for Wicklow County Council that brought together choirs from throughout County Wicklow with solo singers and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in November 2016.
Prizes include the Windham-Campbell Prize 2017 for her body of work, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the American/Ireland Fund Award, the E.M Forster Award From The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Macaulay Fellowship, and the Puterbaugh Fellowship. She is a member of Aosdána.
She has taught at Trinity College Dublin, Villanova, and Princeton. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Dublin City University.
She is published by The Gallery Press, Nick Hern Books, and Faber & Faber.