Seonag Monk
Awarding winning writer Seonag Monk has been writing for twenty
years. She has written for long form television drama, animated
film, stage, radio and has just completed her third children's
book. She has recently been commissioned to write her first
novel.
Seonag's theatre writing experience began with the Gaelic theatre
company Tosg in 1995 with the play Earball, quickly
followed a year later with Roinn Mhic 's Athair and two
children's plays. Seonag has written pieces for the Traverse
theatre.
In 2007 Seonag was commissioned to write There's No V in
Gaelic - a show which ran for two sold out nights in the
Citzens theatre and featured an all female cast.
".......the play's open, unpretentious tone, its taboo-busting
subject-matter, and the flexible, contemporary quality of the
Gaelic it uses - full of 21st-century English phrases and
vocabulary - that makes it at least as accessible to non-speakers
as any other contemporary drama in an unfamiliar language. And it
seems to me that this is a show that should, in time, be seen all
over Scotland." Joyce McMillan, Scotsman.
"I've had the privilege to direct Seonag's work on more than one
occasion and to witness how completely it connects with its many
Gaelic and English-speaking audiences from Stornoway to London.
Hers is a distinctive, popular and authentic voice that deserves to
be heard more widely." Guy Hollands Associate Director
Citizen's Theatre
Recently Seonag has returned to theatre with the smash hit comedy
Gaol 's Gàire / Love & Laughter and is
preparing for a spring tour.
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