Caitríona Daly is a playwright and screenwriter from Dublin.
Her new play The Lunch Punch Power Hour in Conference Room 4 will be produced by The Abbey Theatre in August 2025.
Caitríona was the eighth recipient of the Irish Theatre Institute’s Phelim Donlon Bursary and Residency Award. She has also received Writer’s Guild of Ireland Awards for Best Theatre Script for her play Duck Duck Goose which was produced by Fishamble: The New Play Company in 2021; and for Best Continuing Drama Script for her work on the BBC Drama Doctors in 2024.
Her plays Test Dummy and Normal have previously been nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play and The Fishamble New Writing Prize, respectively.
Her work is published by Nick Hern Books and has been translated and produced internationally.
When not writing, she teaches creative writing, script writing and drama all over Ireland.
Praise for Duck Duck Goose:
★★★★ ‘A provoking, timely and challenging production’ Irish Times
★★★★ ‘Gripping…provocative…’ Sunday Business Post
★★★★ ‘Impressive’ The Arts Review
‘Dramatically sophisticated… impressive’
Irish Independent
‘Show of the week!’ Mail on Sunday
