Felicity McCall

McCall worked for the BBC for twenty years and in around 2000 she settled down to being a full-time writer.^[1]

In 2006 she published a biography of Agnes Jones, the Irish nursing pioneer who was inspired by Florence Nightingale and reformed the Liverpool workhouses.^[2]

Her plays have been professionally produced in the UK, Ireland, the US, and Australasia; her awards include the UK National Lottery Award for Heritage 2011 for We Were Brothers; two Epic Ireland awards in 2013 for Every Bottle has a Story to Tell; two Meyer Whitworth nominations, for No Goodbyes (2008) and We Were Brothers (2010); and the Tyrone Guthrie Scriptwriting Award (2006–07). Much of her work is based on historical fact or social activism. Her screenplay credits include Agnes (Ambient Light/GSCA 2006), based on the life of the Irish nursing pioneer Agnes Jones, and Jam (Brassneck Productions).^{[citation needed]}

McCall is also a director and founding member of theatre groups Handful Productions and Postscript, and co-founded the Derry Writers' Group. She served on the Irish Executive of the National Union of Journalists.^{[citation needed]}