Christina ReidChristina Reid is from the Ardoyne area of Belfast and her plays provide a working-class, female and Protestant perspective on her society. Her play Did You Hear the One About the Irishman? won the Ulster Television Drama Award in 1980, while er breakthrough work Tea in a China Cup was a runner-up in the 1982 IT/DTF competition for plays by women. Other plays include Joyriders, Reid's Clowns, The Belle of Belfast City (which won the George Devine Award), and The Last of a Dyin' Race, (which won the Giles Cooper Award). She has been writer in residence at both the Lyric Theatre, Belfast and at the Young Vic, London. Read More Read Less