The Dry: Q&A with Roisin Gallagher and the Creative Team Behind the Series

Join WFTV for a conversation with some of the creative team behind the second season of The Dry.

Season 2 picks up seven months on from the events of the first series, and we now meet the Sheridans in their new normal. To all outward appearances, it seems like the family is relatively content: Shiv’s been sober, celibate, and solvent for six months, Ant has hung onto his job at the estate agents and his relationship with Max, and Caroline’s making up for a lost time by shagging everyone she meets on Tinder. So far, so normal… Or is it? After all, how normal is it for three grown adults to still be living at home with their parents? And are the Sheridans really happy with this new status quo, or have they just rearranged their dysfunction and found another groove of denial to fit into?

Shiv is determined to get sobriety right this time, to cut the toxic influences out of her life for good. But what if the biggest threat to Shiv’s stability turns out to be closer to home? Giving up alcohol is one thing…but what about giving up your family?

Bringing together creator and screenwriter Nancy Harris, Element producer Emma Norton and lead Roisin Gallagher, the panel will be discussing the series returning for a second season and sharing a behind the scenes insight to the making of the production.

The Dry season 2 is available to watch on ITVX on Thursday 14 March.

Panel

Emma Norton is a television and film producer for Element Pictures, best known for her work on the critically acclaimed series Normal People (2020) and Conversations with Friends (2022), both based on the novels by Sally Rooney; both series of Irish comedy-drama The Dry (2022); as well as critically acclaimed films The Lobster (2015) and The Guard (2011); and the Academy Award-winning Room (2015).

Nancy Harris is an award-winning writer from Dublin who lives in London. Nancy was nominated for the BAFTA Writer award in the Comedy category for The Dry which she wrote and created. The second series is coming to ITVX in March 2024. Nancy also writes extensively for the theatre. Recent plays include a new musical The Magician's Elephant (based on the book by Kate diCamillo); Two Ladies at the Bridge Theatre, London directed by Nicholas Hytner and The Beacon For Druid, Galway and the Gate Theatre, Dublin, directed by Garry Hynes.

Roisin Gallagher received an IFTA nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Drama for her standout performance as Shiv in The Dry by Nancy Harris (RTE, ITVX). She returns to the show for its second series. She also starred in The Lovers by David Ireland (produced by Drama Republic) in which she lead alongside Johnny Flynn on SKY Atlantic. Other television credits include; St Mungo’s Luganalk, The Paddy Raff Show (BBCNI), Doing Money (BBC), Come Home (BBC), Paula (ITV), The Fall(BBC), Doctors (BBC).

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