Margo Harkin

Margo Harkin is an Irish filmmaker. Best known for the drama HushaBye Baby and the documentary Bloody Sunday A Derry Diary, Harkin produced the surfing documentary Waveriders in 2008.

Margo Harkin was born in Derry in 1951, one of a family of sixteen children. She was educated at Loreto Convent, Coleraine and at the Ulster College of Art amp Design, Belfast, graduating in 1974 with a degree in Fine Arts. Afteryears as an art teacher at a Christian Brothers comprehensive school in Creggan she worked as an Art Tutor and Deputy Director of the Derry Youth amp Community Workshop for unemployed young people. In 1980 she joined Field Day Theatre Company founded by Brian Friel and Stephen Rea and went on to train as a Stage Designer with Percy Harris and Hayden Griffin at Motley Theatre Design Course in London. She designed the Field Day productions of The Communication Cord by Brian Friel and Boesman and Lena by Athol Fugard. In 1984 she cofounded Derry Film and Video Workshop, under the Channelfranchised workshop scheme.

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