Louisa Burns-Bisogno

Louisa Burns-Bisogno, a professor in the WCSU Department of Writing, Linguistics and Creative Process, explained how "Two Nights Near Doolin" came to be.
"In the early 1980s, I was given an assignment by my producer to find an Irish story for American television," she said. "It was the height of 'The Troubles' - the bloody civil war in the North. I witnessed several tragic events and many innocents were caught in the crossfire. This folded into a story that I heard while a graduate student at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1990 about an American who went in search of his own family history. "The play's setting came about in the mid-'90s when I was invited to read my paper at the First International Conference on the Irish Diaspora at the University of Cork," Burns-Bisogno explained.

Louisa Burns-Bisogno, a prolific TV and film writer who has had dozens of scripts produced, teaches a screenwriting class at WestConn.
Louisa Burns-Bisogno, a prolific TV and film writer who has had... Louisa Burns-Bisogno, a prolific TV and film writer who has had dozens of scripts produced, teaches a screenwriting class at WestConn. Louisa Burns-Bisogno, a prolific TV and film writer who has had... Louisa Burns-Bisogno, a prolific TV and film writer who has had dozens of scripts produced, teaches a screenwriting class at WestConn. Louisa Burns-Bisogno, a prolific TV and film writer who has had... Louisa Burns-Bisogno, a prolific TV and film writer who has had dozens of scripts produced, teaches a screenwriting class at WestConn. Louisa Burns-Bisogno, a prolific TV and film writer who has had...