Nancy Harris is an award-winning writer from Dublin who lives in London.
Nancy was nominated for the 2023 BAFTA Writer award in the Comedy category for The Dry, which she wrote and created. It is an 8 x 30’ series directed by Paddy Breathnach (Element Films for Britbox, RTE). She also served as EP. Series 2 was released on ITVX in March 2024, and RTE One in May 2024 (now available on RTE Player). The first series won two IFTA awards for Ciaran Hinds and Sarah Lynch (five nominations).
Nancy also writes extensively for the theatre. New productions of Nancy’s plays in 2025 include Our New Girl by the Lyric Theatre, Belfast and The Beacon by The Everyman in Cork. Royal Shakespeare Company produced Nancy’s new version of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Red Shoes which opened at the Swan Theatre in November 2024.
Other recent plays include Somewhere Out There You, which opened at The Abbey Theatre in September 2023; a new musical The Magician’s Elephant (based on the book by Kate diCamillo) which opened at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon in 2021/22; Two Ladies at the Bridge Theatre, London directed by Nicholas Hytner and The Beacon for Druid, Galway and the Gate Theatre, Dublin, directed by Garry Hynes.
She is a past recipient of The Stewart Parker Award for playwriting and The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Nancy wrote two episodes of the Channel 4 series DATES for Balloon/C4, directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Sheridan Smith for which she was nominated for BAFTA Breakthrough Talent Award.
Nancy Harris is represented by Frances Arnold