Daragh Carville is a playwright and screenwriter. Originally from Armagh, Northern Ireland, he is best known for creating and writing the ITV crime drama The Bay. First broadcast in 2019, The Bay is now in its sixth season and has been sold to over 140 countries worldwide.
Daragh’s other TV credits include Being Human (BBC3, 2013), 6Degrees (BBC NI, 2013/15) and The Smoke (Kudos/Sky One, 2014).
His plays include Language Roulette (Tinderbox Theatre Company, 1996/7), Observatory (Peacock, 1999), Family Plot (Tinderbox, 2005), This Other City (Tinderbox, 2009), The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon (Dukes Theatre Lancaster / Oldham Coliseum, 2014) and History (Tinderbox, 2016).
His films are Middletown (dir. Brian Kirk, 2006) starring Matthew McFadyen, Eva Birthistle and Daniel Mays and Cherrybomb (dir. Lisa Barros d’Sa / Glen Leyburn, 2008) starring Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan and Kimberley Nixon.
Work for radio includes Regenerations (BBC Radio 3, 2001), featuring Tom Baker and Richard Dormer, which was nominated for the Richard Imison Award, and Dracula (Radio 4, 2003) starring Michael Fassbender.
Daragh Carville has won both the Stewart Parker and the Meyer Whitworth awards for playwriting and has twice been nominated as Best Writer in the Irish Film and TV Awards. He teaches Scriptwriting at Birkbeck, University of London, and is a member of BAFTA and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.
Daragh Is Appearing In These Sessions
Creating A Hit TV Show: Forensic Analysis of ‘The Bay’ with Daragh Carville
Herringham Hall
Since its 2019 debut, The Bay has captivated up to 8 million UK viewers and reached audiences in 140+ countries. Co-creator Daragh Carville reveals how the hit crime drama was made and evolved behind the scenes.
