Question: In 2008 City Theatre Dublin ran productions of a play by who?

Context articles: Samuel Harjanne
Patrick Bedford
Jaana Saarinen
Vali Rácz
Tallinn City Theatre
City Theatre (Pittsburgh)
Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
SFX City Theatre, Dublin
The Importance of Being Earnest
David Chariandy

Samuel Harjanne (born 1987) is an international director, actor, voice actor, and a singer.
 He is currently living in London.
 For over 15 years, he has performed voice-dubbing roles in the Finnish language for foreign media, including many major character roles.
 He has directed and/or acted in theaters in Finland, such as: Helsinki City Theatre, Åbo Svenska Teater, Turku City Theatre, Wasa Teater and Tampere theatre.
 He has directed many musicals, ranging from Disney to Altar Boyz.
Patrick Bedford (May 30, 1932, Dublin, Ireland – November 20, 1999; New York City, United States) was an Irish stage actor.
 He began his career in the 1950s at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, including productions of Chekhov, Shaw and Shakespeare, and later worked on the stage and in television in England.
 He was in the original stage production of "Philadelphia, Here I Come!
" by Brian Friel, at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin, later in London and then New York which earned him a Tony Award nomination in 1965 for Best Actor (with Donal Donnelly).
 and an Outer Circle Critics Award.
Jaana E. Saarinen (born 22 June 1955 in Helsinki) is a Finnish actress.
 She is famous for the Finnish soap opera "Salatut elämät", where she played Maarit Salin from 1999 to 2004, 2007 to 2008 and 2015.
 For 25 years, Saarinen was involved with the Kotka City Theatre from 1981 to 2006.
 She took part in the very first Thilia Thalia competition in 1983 and came third.
 Hannu Salminen and Tuija Piepponen, representatives of the Kotka City Theatre, won the competition that year.
Vali Rácz (25 December 191112 February 1997) was a successful Hungarian singer and film actress, the darling of the Hungarian public.
 She finished the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest 1932.
 Between 1933 and 1934, she played at City Theatre and then at Hungarian Theatre.
 In 1936, she sang at 'Terézkörúti Színpad' and at City Theatre for three years.
 After 1945 she was a member of Royal Revue-theatre, Medgyaszay Theatre, then Kamara Varieté.
 She acted in twenty films, but was primarily a chanteuse, giving solo concerts at the Music Academy and Vigadó concert hall, as well as appearing regularly at the Hangli Kioszk nightclub.
 She left Hungary with her husband Peter Halász and children, Mónika and Valér, in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
 She lived in New York City, later in London, and in 1975 settled in Munich, Germany.
 On 25 May 1992, she was honoured as a Righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, for having saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
 She died at the age of 85 in 1997.
Tallinn City Theatre (Estonian: "Tallinna Linnateater" ) is a repertory theatre located in the medieval old town of Tallinn, Estonia.
 Tallinn City Theatre was established in 1965 as Estonian SSR State Youth Theatre.
 In 1992, after the reindependence of Estonia, Elmo Nüganen became the artistic director, holding this position until today.
 In 1994, it became a municipal theatre named Tallinn City Theatre.
 Tallinn City Theatre's house is unique, consisting of 16 interconnected medieval merchant's houses.
 Tallinn City Theatre organizes a biannual international theatre festival Midwinter Night's Dream, which takes place in December.
City Theatre is a professional theatre company located in Pittsburgh's South Side.
 It specializes in productions of new plays and has commissioned new works by playwrights on the national theatre scene, including Christopher Durang, Adam Rapp, and Jeffrey Hatcher.
 Established in 1975 as the City Players under the direction of Marjorie Walker, it was originally composed mainly of Carnegie Mellon graduates and was part of Pittsburgh's Department of Parks and Recreation, performing at schools, parks, and housing projects.
 Initially the group shared their performance space in the North Side's Allegheny Center with Pittsburgh Public Theater.
 In 1979, the group was offered a residency at the University of Pittsburgh and renamed itself City Theatre.
 “Homeless” for a brief period of time, the University of Pittsburgh theatre department offered to shelter the theater company in 1980.
 Attilo Favorini, head of the department, thought that, “The City Theater offered us [Pitt] the opportunity for Pitt’s students to work a professional company.”
(Steele, Bruce “Artistic Struggles -The City Theater Company: A History of Bad Luck and Good Theater” pg.
 27) In addition to receiving a new troupe of professional actors, funding of the CETA enabled the expansion of the company and the creation of the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 1980.
 In 1981, under the artistic direction of Marc Masterson, the company moved to a new performance space on Bouquet Street in Oakland.
 The company again moved to a new performance space at the former Bingham United Methodist Church in the South Side in 1991, where in addition to its own season it acted as a host space for the earliest productions of the Pittsburgh New Works Festival.
 Marc Masterson became artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky, and Tracy Brigden became artistic director in 2001.
Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge is a musical parody of the Charles Dickens story "A Christmas Carol".
 Written by Christopher Durang, the play was initially commissioned by City Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when Durang was asked by Artistic Director Tracy Brigden to write a Christmas comedy.
 It premiered on November 7, 2002 at the City Theatre, with Kristine Nielsen in the title role.
City Theatre Dublin (formerly SFX Hall) is a theatre located in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1984.
 It is currently just a producing company that puts on over 300 shows each year in over 50 venues around the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
 Its productions include "Sisters", "The Hostage", "The Matchmaker", "The Vagina Monologues", and "The Cuchulain Cycle", as well as highly acclaimed annual Christmas shows for children.
 In 2008, City Theatre Dublin ran productions of "The Importance of Being Earnest" with Dillie Keane and "Love Letters" with David Soul and Jerry Hall.
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.
 First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations.
 Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.
 Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far.
 Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make "The Importance of Being Earnest" Wilde's most enduringly popular play.
David Chariandy is a Canadian writer and one of the co-founders of Commodore Books.
 His debut novel "Soucouyant" was nominated for ten literary prizes and awards, including the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (longlisted), the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize (longlisted), the 2007 Governor General's Award for Fiction (finalist), the 2007 "ForeWord" Book of the Year Award for literary fiction from an independent press ("gold" winner), the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book of Canada and the Caribbean (shortlisted), the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of the British Columbia Book Prizes (shortlisted), the 2008 City of Toronto Book Award (shortlisted), the 2008 "One Book, One Vancouver" of the Vancouver Public Library (shortlisted), the 2008 Relit Award for best novel from a Canadian independent press (shortlisted), and the 2007 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award (shortlisted).