Mr Daragh Carville
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Daragh Carville is a playwright and screenwriter, best known for creating and writing the ITV crime drama, The Bay, the first season of which was broadcast in 2019, attracting an average audience of over seven million viewers. The Bay has also been an international success, selling to some 95 countries worldwide. The second series is due to be broadcast in 2021.
Daragh's plays include Language Roulette, This Other City and The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon. His films are Middletown (2005) and Cherrybomb (2009). TV work includes Being Human, 6Degrees and The Smoke, and Radio includes Regenerations (Radio 3) and Dracula (Radio 4). Daragh has won the Meyer Whitworth and Stewart Parker awards for playwriting. He has taught Scriptwriting at Birkbeck since 2015.
Highlights
Daragh Carville on Spiral, 'The Show That Shaped Me'. Broadcast, March 2019: https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/the-show-that-shaped-me/daragh-carville-spiral-engrenages/5137676.article
Guardian review of The Bay, ep 1: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/20/the-bay-review-broadchurch-in-morecambe-come-on-in-the-waters-lovely
The Bay series 2 announcement: https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-commissions-second-series-bay
Independent review of The Bay, ep 6: https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/the-bay-itv-review-morven-christie-tightly-potted-drama-about-small-town-life-283990
Web profiles
Administrative responsibilities
- Programme Director, BA Creative Writing
Honours and awards
- Meyer Whitworth Prize , National Theatre Foundation / Arts Council England, December 1998
- Stewart Parker Award , Stewart Parker Society , December 1998
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Current doctoral researchers
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DALE CROSBY
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Creative Arts, Culture and Communication Postgraduate Research (AREN060Z8)
- Scriptwriting Workshop 1: The Essentials of Stage and Screen (The 30 Minute Script) (AREN204S5)
- Scriptwriting Workshop 4: The Television Drama (The 60 Minute Script) (AREN205S6)
- Introduction to Playwriting and Poetry (AREN286S4)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Carville, Daragh (2023) The Bay: Radio Times article. Radio Times ISSN 0033-8060.
Book Section
- Carville, Daragh (2019) 'Fifty Years', a contribution to 'A Love Letter to Europe: An Outpouring of Sadness and Hope from Writers, Thinkers and Artists' (Coronet, 2019).. In: A Love Letter to Europe. Coronet. pp. 284-285. ISBN 9781529381092.
- Carville, Daragh and O'Connor, J. (2016) Foreword to Come Day - Go Day. In: Come Day - Go Day. John O'Connor Writing School & The Arts Council of Northern Ireland. ISBN 9781910742556.
- Carville, Daragh (2013) This other city. In: Weate, C. (ed.) The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Men. London, UK: Oberon Books. pp. 128-130. ISBN 9781849434362.
Conference Item
- Eve, Martin Paul and Blacklock, Mark and Carville, Daragh and Hankinson, Andrew (2016) Crime Writers in Conversation. True Crime Fictions, 2016, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Other
- Carville, Daragh (2023) The Bay: Series Four. ITV.
- Carville, Daragh (2022) The Bay: Series Three. ITV.
- Carville, Daragh (2021) The Bay: Series Two. ITV.
- Carville, Daragh (2019) The Bay: Season One. ITV: ITV.
- Carville, Daragh (2017) Daragh Carville on Girl from the North Country. Birkbeck English and Humanities Blog London, UK: Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Carville, Daragh (2017) In conversation with Ian Martin. Birkbeck, Department of English and Humanities Blog London, UK: Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Carville, Daragh (2017) Daragh Carville on Paul Muldoon and P. J. Harvey at the Lancaster Words Festival.. Birkbeck, Department of English and Humanities Blog. London, UK: Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Carville, Daragh (2017) Rewatching The Godfather. Birkbeck, Department of English and Humanities Blog Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Carville, Daragh (2016) History. Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast: Tinderbox Theatre Company.
- Carville, Daragh (2016) Daragh Carville on Michael Hughes, The Countenance Divine. Birkbeck Department of English & Humanities Blog London, UK: Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College.
- Carville, Daragh (2015) The song of sin. My Protege.
- Carville, Daragh (2014) The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon. N/A.