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Comedy Gold! - Sharon Horgan talks 'Divorce' with IFTA in Dublin
06 Dec 2016 :
The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) will hold a much anticipated ‘In Conversation’ with Sharon Horgan in Dublin on Saturday December 10th at the Westbury Hotel. Horgan has become one of Ireland's most successful screen talents, as an international Writer, Director, Actress and Producer.

Sharon has recently been recognized as one of The Guardian’s top 100 most Powerful People in Media, and she is currently working in New York with Sarah Jessica Parker in her latest TV show DIVORCE which she has created, written and co-produced.

The Hollywood Reporter recently published that ‘it’s Sharon Horgan's performance that elevates the Catastrophe series', and Variety (the LA publication) stated that 'Horgan was half of one of the most captivating couples of the year…. before 2015, we were unfamiliar with Horgan, but now we can’t get enough of her deft and versatile on-screen work.'

Sharon will talk about the television business and her work as a Writer, Director, Producer and Actress, and will share key insights with IFTA Academy Members (Irish film and TV professionals), across multiple Award winning international TV shows such as Catastrophe and Divorce among others.

About Sharon Horgan
One of Guardian’s top 100 most powerful people in the media 2015, Sharon Horgan is an Irish actress, writer, director and producer. Her BBC show 'Pulling' was nominated for two BAFTA Awards and won two British Comedy Awards. She has created, written, and starred in multiple comedy shows, including Angelo's (C5), Bad Management (ABC), and Dead Boss (BBC).

Sharon starred in the award-winning and critically-acclaimed series Catastrophe (C4/Amazon), which she co-created and co-wrote with Rob Delaney. She has won IFTA Awards for Best Writer (Comedy/Soap) and Best Female Performance (Comedy/Soap) in both 2015 and 2016.

In addition to her IFTA wins for Catastrophe, which has been re-commissioned for another two series by Channel 4, Sharon has won a BAFTA in the Writer: Comedy category and was recently nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards alongside Rob Delaney. Sharon’s new show Divorce has recently been re-commissioned for a second series on HBO. The comedy which she has created, written and produced - starring Sarah Jessica Parker, is set in New York and tells the story of a very, very long divorce. It centres on Frances (Parker), a woman who suddenly begins to reassess her life and her marriage, and finds that making a clean break and a fresh start is harder than she thought.

This year, Sharon has also created and co-written the pilots for The Circuit (Channel4) about the horror and hilarity of social engagement, and Motherland (BBC2) about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic sides of parenting - not the cute and acceptable public face of motherhood. Motherland has now been commissioned for a full series on the BBC. Further to her creative work, Sharon co-owns the independent production company Merman with producer Clelia Mountford (Cockroaches, Young Doctor's Notebook). Merman recently shot the third series of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, is co-producing Catastrophe and Divorce, as well as executive producing the US remakes of Bad Sugar and Pulling.

This event is presented by IFTA as part of the ‘Women in Focus’ series in association with DAVY.





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