Nancy Harris is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter from Dublin.
Nancy is the creator and writer of the IFTA and BAFTA nominated comedy/drama series The Dry. An 8 x 30’ series directed by Paddy Breathnach and starring an ensemble cast including Roisin Gallagher, Pom Boyd, Siobhan Cullen and Ciaran Hinds. The third and final series aired in April 2026.
Nancy was nominated for a BAFTA in the Breakthrough talent category for writing two episodes of Dates (Channel 4/Balloon) a comedy drama created by Bryan Elsley, directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Sheridan Smith.
Nancy’s plays have been produced at the Abbey and Gate theatres in Dublin, the Bush and Bridge theatres in London, the Atlantic and Irish Rep in New York, among others. Plays include: Somewhere Out There You (Abbey), Two Ladies (Bridge), The Beacon (Druid, Gate, Irish Rep), Our New Girl (Bush, Atlantic, Lyric Belfast) and No Romance (Abbey). For the Royal Shakespeare Company, she wrote the book and co-wrote the lyrics (with composer Marc Teitler) for the musical based on Kate DiCamillo’s The Magician’s Elephant. She adapted Hans Christian Andersen’s dark fairy-tale The Red Shoes (Gate, RSC) and The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy (Gate, La Mama). Nancy also wrote the book for Baddies the Musical, and a new version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes for children, The Man With The Disturbingly Smelly Foot (Unicorn).
Belfast Lyric Theatre’s recent production of Nancy’s Our New Girl was nominated for Best Play Revival at the 2025 UK Theatre Awards.
The Beacon was recently selected as one of six key plays from Druid Theatre’s fifty-year history in a brand new publication released to celebrate the anniversary.
Nancy is a past recipient of The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Stewart Parker Award and has been a finalist for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
She was also BAFTA nominated in the Writer: Comedy Category for The Dry.
Nancy Harris is represented by Frances Arnold