Maeve Larkin

Maeve Larkin
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)English actor and playwright
Known forPlay writing and television roles
Notable work
  • Can You Keep A Secret? the Rise And Fall Of the Yorkshire Luddites(2012)
  • Don't Shoot the Messenger (2013)
  • Troupers (2014)
  • Raising Agents (2015)

Maeve Larkin is an English actor and playwright.

Plays

She has written five plays for the Mikron Theatre Company. In 2012 they performed her Can You Keep A Secret? the Rise And Fall Of the Yorkshire Luddites, in 2013 Don't Shoot the Messenger and in 2014 Troupers. Her 2015 play Raising Agents, celebrating the centenary of the Women's Institutes, was one of the two shows of Mikron's 150-venue 2015 tour; in writing it she worked with the National Federation of Women's Institutes and visited meetings of several WIs.[1][2][3][4] For Mikron's 2017 season she wrote Best Foot Forward, about the Youth Hostels Association.[5]

Television roles

Larkin has had television roles including several in Emmerdale,[6] and appeared with Northern Broadsides in roles including Emilia in their Othello which starred Lenny Henry.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Review: Raising Agents by Mikron Theatre Company at Lawrence Batley Theatre". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  2. ^ Collins, Lucy (June 2015). "Raising the Roof" (PDF). WI Life. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Maeve Larkin". doollee.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Cast and Crew". National Tour Programme 2015. Mikron Theatre Company. 2015. p. 19.
  5. ^ "Shows: Best Foot Forward". Mikron Theatre Company. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Emmerdale: Episode 7003". Radio Times. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  7. ^ Walker, Lynne (23 October 2011). "First Night: Othello, Quarry Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds". The Independent. Retrieved 3 November 2015.