“The Roaring Banshees,” an adaptation of the hit play by John Morton and Peter McGann that follows an all-female band of Irish rebels pursuing a life of crime in 1920s Chicago, was among the big winners as Rome’s MIA Market wrapped Friday night, taking home the newly minted Sony Pictures Television Award for best drama project at the event’s 11th edition.
Presenting the award, Sony Pictures Television president Katherine Pope praised the series — which is written by Morton and McGann and produced by Paul Donovan of Dublin-based Deadpan Pictures — saying that it “represents the kind of bold and innovative storytelling that makes for exceptional television.”
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