Martin McDonagh, director and writer of ‘In Bruges’, has scooped the Best Film Script Award at the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild’s ZeBBies - while Mark O’Halloran picked up the Best Script gong for ‘Prosperity’.
The Zebbies, which took place on Tuesday night in Dublin's Sugar Club was MC’d by Senator David Norris who also handed out awards for the Best Theatre Script - Christian O'Reilly for his play ‘Is This About Sex?’ and the Best Radio Script went to Lucy Caldwell for ‘Girl From Mars’
A special ZeBBie was presented to the Writers Guild of America - Bob Schneider, Vice-President of the Writers Guild of America East (WGAe), was in attendance to accept the award.
The ZeBBies are named after O.Z. Whitehead (aka Zebby), actor and writer, who sponsored playwriting awards with the Society of Irish Playwrights (now the IPSG) for many years.
In collaboration with the Irish Film Archive of the IFI, the film 'Ireland A Nation' (1914) was screened after the ceremony with accompaniment from 3epKano.
