Fiona’s work in theatre includes Coolatully (winner of the 2014 Papatango New Writing Prize) at the Finborough Theatre in London, and for Mead Theatre Lab in Washington DC; Deluge (winner of the 2014 Eamon Keane Full-Length Play Award) and The Strange Death of John Doe (2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist) at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs; The Annihilation of Jessie Leadbeater (ALRA); The Ceasefire Babies (NT Connections) and Ms Y (short) as part of the Young Vic’s Five Plays. Fiona has been the recipient of the Irish Theatre Institute’s Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary and Residency Award in association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, a Cill Rialaig Artist residency, two Peggy Ramsay Foundation grants and an attachment at the National Theatre Studio. She is currently under commission to the Bridge Theatre and is developing a number of projects for TV. Her plays are published by Nick Hern Books, Routledge and Methuen Drama.
She began work on a new play during her time at MacDowell. It is inspired by the North Dakota oil boom - a period of rapidly expanding oil extraction in an area known as the Bakken Formation, starting around 2008 and peaking around 2014.
