Gillian Hanna studied at Trinity College Dublin from where she graduated with a First Class degree in Modern Languages. Since then she has worked as an actress and a translator. In 1975 she was a co-founder of The Monstrous Regiment, the touring feminist company with whom she worked extensively for fifteen years. Her book about the company, MONSTROUS REGIMENT: A COLLECTIVE CELEBRATION is published by Nick Hern Books. Her essay AN AGE OF INNOCENCE has just been published in Dublin as part of the collection TRINITY TALES – TRINITY COLLEGE IN THE SIXTIES.
Translations include: DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PROSTITUTE AND ONE OF HER CLIENTS by Dacia Maraini and Marivaux’ THE COLONY (both for Monstrous Regiment); AUNT AGGIE’S HOOCH by Philippe Gaulier; A DAY AT MY MOTHER’S by Charlotte de Turckheim for the West Yorkshire Playhouse; THE FAULT LINE by Massimo Bavastro for Croydon Warehouse Theatre; THE NORTHERN FOX by Noelle Renaude for the Royal Court Theatre and a new one woman play SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE, by Philippe Gaulier. Also TITA LOU by Catherine Anne for the Meeting Ground Theatre Co. DEJAVU by Edoarda Erba for Croydon Warehouse and three one-act Pirandello plays performed by Enter the Spirit Productions at the New End Theatre under the title PIRANDELLO x 3; DO YOU LOVE ME and GENOA 01 by Fausto Paravidino for The Royal Court Theatre; BUCCHETINO (THE TALE OF THUMBKIN) for the 2001 LIFT Festival (performed at the Battersea Arts Centre); LES JUSTES by Albert Camus for the Gate Theatre London; DON’T LOOK TO TOMORROW by Filippo del Corno for the Almeida Opera Project; SONG FOR FALLUJAH by Francesco Niccolini for Croydon Warehouse and EVEN RATS CAN TAP DANCE by Ana Candida de Carvalho Carnera for the 2008 Royal Court Summer Residency.
Gillian is currently working on two more plays by Edoardo Erba: FAMILY FAVOURITES, and BEFORE HITLER. She workshopped a version of Pasolini’s AFFABULAZIONE with the poet Jamie McKendrick and the director Lucy Bailey for the RNT Studio. She is also translating Fausto Paravidino’s STILL LIFE IN A DITCH for the Teatro Ringhiera in Milan.
Plays published by Methuen – ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST and ELIZABETH: ALMOST BY CHANCE A WOMAN both by Dario Fo; A WOMAN ALONE (one woman plays by Franca Rame and Dario Fo); THE NORTHERN FOX by Noelle Renaude. |
