Mary O'Malley is an English playwright and poet, based in London, England.
Background
Ethnicity:
Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was Lithuanian.
Mary O'Malley was born on March 19, 1941, in Bushey, Hertford, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Patrick Joseph and Elizabeth (Klimatys) O’Malley.
Education
Mary O'Malley studied drama at the City Literary Institute, and "Improvisation and Playmaking" with Dorothea Alexander in the 1960s.
O'Malley started her career, working in fringe theatre in London in the mid-1970s. During that time she was also taking part in plays for television. In 1975 The Royal Court commissioned O'Malley to write a play, which became Once a Catholic. This play has been performed on tours and at regional theatres in Britain, and won many awards.
In 1977 O'Malley wrote Oy Vay Maria for BBC television, directed by Richard Loncraine, and in 1978, she wrote Look Out...Here Comes Trouble for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Her other works are On the Shelf for television (1984) produced by Margaret Matheson, and Talk of the Devil at the Watford Playhouse (1986) directed by Bill Alexander.