Abbie Spallen’s plays include Abeyance (Druid); Pumpgirl (Bush/Traverse/Manhattan Theatre Club), which won the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Stewart Parker Award and was nominated for the Irish Times Best New Play; Strandline (Fishamble), which was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and nominated for the Meyer Whitworth Award; Bogwog (NPC at O’Neill Centre Connecticut); and Lally the Scut (Tinderbox/Belfast). Her short plays include Thirteen (Women in Power and Politics, Tricycle Theatre), Shaving the Pickle (59E59 NYC) and Rubberfoot (Pentabus). She was a recipient of the prestigious Windham-Campbell prize, 2016.