Anne-Marie Casey

Anne-Marie Casey (born 7 July 1965) is a primetime TV screenwriter and producer who moved into stage adaptation and novels.

Anne-Marie Casey
Born7 July 1965
Pen nameAnne-Marie Casey
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish, Irish

Biography

Casey was born in 1965 in the UK to an Irish father. She was educated in St Bernard's convent school before going to college in Oxford where she studied English and then Syracuse University, New York where she studied Film and TV. She became a producer and script editor with her TV shows in the primetime slot. She married writer Joseph O'Connor with whom she had two sons and moved to Killiney, Co Dublin. There she began working on scripts for RTÉ. The next step was when she began to create scripts for the stage, in 2011 she created the stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women. In 2014 she adapted Wuthering Heights.[1][2][3]

During this time Casey also began to write novels. Her first came out in 2013 and was a Kirkus Reviews best book of 2013.[4]

Novels

Casey's debut novel An Englishwoman in New York was published in the UK and Ireland in 2013.[5] The novel was published that same year in the US as No One Could Have Guessed the Weather.[6]

Her second novel The Real Liddy James was published in 2016. The novel's plot follows high-powered Irish-American lawyer Liddy James as she reassesses her priorities in life following a period of high stress. Part of the novel takes place in Ireland.[7]

Works

TV credits
  • 2007-2009 The Clinic
  • 2007 Anner House
  • 2000 Lady Audley's Secret
  • 1998 Jilting Joe
  • 1995 Dangerous Lady
  • 1995 A Village Affair
  • 1995 The Spy Who Caught a Cold
  • 1994 Capital Lives
  • 1998 The Jump
  • 1992 The Blackheath Poisonings

Plays

Novels
  • An Englishwoman in New York - UK, 2013 / No One Could Have Guessed The Weather - US, 2013
  • The Real Liddy James - UK and US, 2016

References
  1. Sue Leonard. "Anne-Marie Casey".
  2. "Irish Plays".
  3. "The Sunday Times".
  4. "Kirkus Reviews".
  5. "An Englishwoman in New York, by Anne-Marie Casey". The Irish Times. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  6. "No One Could Have Guessed the Weather". Oprah.com. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  7. "Fiction: The Real Liddy James by Anne-Marie Casey". Independent.ie. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
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