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[[Image:Girlfriend in a Coma.png|thumb|right|Delaney was featured twice on [[The Smiths|Smiths]] record sleeves, including this one for their 1987 single, "Girlfriend in a Coma".]]
'''Shelagh Delaney''' (born [[25 November]] [[1939]]), is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]], best known for her debut work, ''[[A Taste of Honey]]''.

Delaney is of [[Irish people|Irish]] descent.  Born in [[Broughton, Greater Manchester|Broughton]], [[Salford, Greater Manchester|Salford]], [[Lancashire]], she attended three different primary schools. After failing the [[Eleven plus exam|eleven-plus examination]] to qualify for grammar school, she went to Broughton Secondary School, where she saw her first stage production, an amateur performance of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Othello]]''. She was twelve at the time and the play made a lasting impression. 

(contracted; show full)ple. It opened at the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East]] in [[London]] on [[27 May]] [[1958]], and on [[10 February]] [[1959]], transferred to [[Wyndham's Theatre]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]], where it enjoyed a long run and won several awards. On [[4 October]] [[1960]] the play opened at [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]'s [[Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)|Lyceum Theatre]] with a cast including [[Joan Plowright]], [[Angela Lansbury]], and [[Billy Dee Williams]].

Two years later, Delaney co-wrote 
a screenplaythe adaptation for the [[A Taste of Honey (film)|film version]], with director [[Tony Richardson]], which starred [[Rita Tushingham]] and [[Dora Bryan]] and won Delaney and Richardson a [[BAFTA Award]] for Best British Screenplay. The film was one of the key films of the [[British New Wave]] of cinema in the [[Sixties]].

She has written a collection of [[short stories]] ''Sweetly Sings the Donkey'', several television plays, including ''Did your Nanny Come from Bergen?'' (1970), and ''St Martin's Summer'' (1974), award-winning scripts such as ''[[Charliey Bubbles]]'' (1967) and ''[[Dance with a Stranger]]'' (1985), and radio plays such as ''So Does the Nightingale'' (1980), but Delaney has not repeated the level of success she did with her first play. 

In 1985, Delaney was made a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].

Her works have formed the inspiration for several songs written by the British [[singer]]/[[songwriter]] [[Morrissey]], and she featured on the sleeves of the ''[[Louder Than Bombs]]'' [[album]] and "[[Girlfriend in a Coma (song)|Girlfriend in a Coma]]" [[Single (music)|single]] by his band, [[The Smiths]].

She has one daughter, Charlotte, whose father was Harvey Orkin.   Charlotte was born march 4th 1964, in the lindo wing of St Mary's hospital in London.

==References and external links==
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*[http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/timelines/women.php?year=3&syear=5& Theatre Museum profile]

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