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Stewart Parker Prize
The Stewart Parker Trust Award or Stewart Parker Prize is an annual Irish award for best Irish debut play. It is named in honour of Stewart Parker. There is a cash bursary as part of the award. Previous recipients of the award include: Gavin Kostick, Conor McPherson, Mark O'Rowe, Enda Walsh, Eugene O'Brien, Tom MacIntyre. Gerald Murphy, Nancy Harris, Gina Moxley, Lisa McGee and Christian O'Reilly Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρισ .... The winners are announced annually at the Lyric Theatre. References Irish theatre awards Irish literary awards {{theat-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Parker
James Stewart Parker (20 October 1941 – 2 November 1988) was a Northern Irish poet and playwright. Biography He was born in Sydenham, Belfast, of a Protestant working-class family. His birthplace is marked by an Ulster History Circle blue plaque. While still in his teens, he contracted bone cancer and had a leg amputated. He studied for an MA in Poetic Drama at Queen's University, Belfast, on a scholarship, before commencing teaching in the United States at Hamilton College and Cornell University. Parker was a member of a group of young writers that included Seamus Heaney and Bernard MacLaverty in the early 1960s at Queen's University in Belfast. In '' British Poetry since 1945'', Edward Lucie-Smith calls him "a rawer, rougher, more unformed poet than either of the other two Belfast poets presented here" (i.e. Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon). He notes that all three are post-Movement and neo-Georgian, owing little to William Butler Yeats and not much more to Patrick Kavanagh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Kostick
Gavin Kostick is a playwright, dramaturge at the LIR academy, Dublin, and literary manager of Fishamble: The New Play Company. He founded the ''Show in a Bag'' series of plays. Works Gavin Kostick's dramatic works include ''The Ash Fire'' (1992), winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award, which is based loosely on the experiences of his grandfather who entered Ireland after he 'jumped ship in the wrong port'. Kostick's other plays include ''Jack Ketch’s Gallows Jig'' (1994), ''The Flesh Addict'' (1996), ''Doom Raider'' (2000), ''The Asylum Ball'' (2000), ''Contact'' (2002), ''The Medusa'' (2003), a new interpretation of Homer's ''Odyssey'' (2023), ''Fight Night'' (2010), ''Swing'' (2013), ''At the Ford'' (2015), ''Games People Play'' (2015), winner of the Best New Play at the ''Irish Times'' Theatre Awards, ''Pocket Music'' ''Gym Swim Party'' (2019), and ''Invitation to a Journey'' (2016). After gathering oral histories from Belfast's Jewish community, Gavin Kostick wrote ''This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conor McPherson
Conor McPherson (born 6 August 1971) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and director of stage and film. In recognition of his contribution to world theatre, McPherson was awarded a doctorate of Literature, Honoris Causa, in June 2013 by the University College Dublin. Early life McPherson was born in Dublin. He was educated at University College Dublin and began writing his first plays there as a member of UCD Dramsoc, the college's dramatic society, and went on to found Fly by Night Theatre Company which produced several of his plays. He is considered one of the best contemporary Irish playwrights; his plays have attracted good reviews, and have been performed internationally (notably in the West End and on Broadway). Career ''The Weir'' opened at the Royal Court before transferring to the West End and Broadway. It won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for 1999. In the same year he was one of the recipients of the V Europe Prize Theatrical Realities awarded to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark O'Rowe
Mark O'Rowe is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. Life Mark O'Rowe was born in 1970 in Dublin, Ireland, to parents Hugh and Patricia O'Rowe (to whom he dedicated his 1999 play, ''Howie the Rookie''). He grew up in Tallaght, a working class suburb in the west of Dublin, and he claims that much of the violence in his work stems from watching and rewatching a tremendous amount of violent, bloody movies when he was in his teens. List of plays * ''The Approach'' (2018) * ''Our Few and Evil Days'' (2014) * ''Terminus'' (2007) * '' Howie the Rookie'' (1999) * '' The Aspidistra Code'' (1995) * '' Anna's Ankle'' * '' From Both Hips'' * '' Crestfall'' * ''Made in China'' Credits as a screenwriter * ''Intermission'' * ''Perrier's Bounty'' * '' Boy A'' * '' Broken'' * '' The Delinquent Season'' * ''Normal People (TV series)'' Awards and nominations As a playwright * Irish Times/ESB Theatre Award for Best New Play for Howie the Rookie. * George Devine Award for Best New Play f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enda Walsh
Enda Walsh (born 1967) is an Irish playwright. Biography Enda Walsh was born in Kilbarrack, North Dublin on February 7, 1967. His father ran a furniture shop and his mother had been an actress. He is the second youngest of six children. Walsh states that he saw his father, a salesman, as the 'lead actor' in the business, but as Ireland's economy fluctuated, so did furniture sales. Notably during the recession in the 1980s, when profits were low, Walsh says that he was earning more money managing his own newspaper round enterprise than his father was bringing home from the shop. Life in the large family was full of incident and Enda has claimed that many of his plays find their origin in his relationships with his father, his mother and her friends, his three brothers and two sisters. Enda attended the Greendale Community School where he was taught by both Roddy Doyle and Paul Mercier. After studying Communications at Rathmines College and acting for the Dublin Youth Thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene O'Brien (playwright)
Eugene O'Brien is an Irish playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for his very successful play '' Eden'', which after playing at the Peacock Theatre/Abbey Theatre in Dublin was put on in the West End of London and Broadway in New York City. In 2001 the play won the ''Irish Times'' Best New Play of the Year Award and Stewart Parker Prize. O'Brien's second play, ''Savoy'', premiered on the Peacock stage in 2004. Works The author of several radio plays for RTÉ, '' The Nest'' and ''Sloth'', in 2005 he wrote the screenplay to '' Pure Mule'', a six-part television drama for RTÉ, which garnered five Irish Film and Television awards. As an actor, he has worked for The Corn Exchange, Bickerstaffe, Calypso, Storytellers, Barnstorm, Loose Cannon, and Glasshouse Theatre companies, and has appeared in several television series including ''Ballykissangel''. He was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature was created in 1976 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom MacIntyre
Tom MacIntyre (10 December 1931– 31 October 2019) was an Irish poet, playwright and writer. Born in Cavan, he grew up in Bailieborough with his four siblings, and briefly worked as a pharmaceutical chemist, before deciding to write. MacIntyre played as a goalkeeper for the Cavan junior team which won the Ulster Championship in 1957, and reportedly, also played in the same position for the Cavan senior team. He was a member of the New Writers Press and became a member of Aosdána in 1981. He taught at Clongowes Wood College and at American universities, among them the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Williams College, Massachusetts. Works Poetry *''Blood Relations: Versions of Gaelic Poems of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'' (1972), *''A Glance Will Tell You and A Dream'' (1994), *''Ag Caint leis an mBanríon'' - Coiscéim (1997), *''Silenus na gCat'' - Coiscéim (1999), *''Stories of the Wandering Moon '' (2000) *''Tamall Suirí'' - Coiscéim (2004), P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Murphy
Gerald Clery Murphy and Sara Sherman Wiborg were wealthy, expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century and who, with their generous hospitality and flair for parties, created a vibrant social circle, particularly in the 1920s, that included a great number of artists and writers of the Lost Generation. Gerald had a brief but significant career as a painter. Gerald Murphy Gerald Clery Murphy (March 26, 1888 – October 17, 1964) was born in Boston to the family that owned the Mark Cross Company, sellers of fine leather goods. He was of an Irish-American background. His father was Patrick Francis Murphy (1858–1931); he had two siblings: Esther Knesborough (1897–1962) and Patrick Timothy Murphy (1884–1924). Gerald was an aesthete from his childhood. He was never comfortable in the boardrooms and clubs for which his father was grooming him. He failed the entrance exams at Yale University three times before matriculating, but he performed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Harris
Nancy Harris is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. She was given the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2012. Early life and education Harris is the daughter of Anne Harris (journalist), Anne and Eoghan Harris. She was educated at Trinity College Dublin, earning a B.A. in Drama Studies and Classical Civilization, and the University of Birmingham, where she completed an M.Phil. in Playwriting Studies (a course founded by playwright David Edgar) in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts. Career She was awarded Stewart Parker Trust Award, The Stewart Parker Award 2012 for her first original full-length play ''No Romance'' which premiered at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The play was also nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Awards, Irish Times Theatre Award, a Zebbie Award and was a finalist for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2012. Her play ''Our New Girl'', premiered at The Bush Theatre London and was long-listed for an Evening Standard 'Most Promising Playwright Award' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Moxley
Gina Moxley (born 1957) is an Irish playwright, director and actress. She is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists. Early life Moxley was born in Cork in 1957. Career Moxley studied fine art at Crawford School of Art. She applied for a job as a designer with a theatre company in Dublin, who then invited her to audition to act instead. Her debut play, ''Danti-Dan'' (1995) was commissioned by the Rough Magic Theatre Company and won the Stewart Parker Trust Award. In 1996, she contributed the idea for the film '' Snakes and Ladders'' and also co-starred in it (alongside Pom Boyd) as one of the female leads. In 1997 she followed her debut play with ''Dog House'', a one-actor drama about the abuse of a teenager. Moxley attending the creative writing course at the Oscar Wilde Centre and received an M.Phil. from Trinity College Dublin in 2006. In 2014, ''How to Keep an Alien'' won best production at the 2014 Dublin Fringe Festival. In 2018, her play ''The Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa McGee
Elizabeth "Lisa" McGee (born 1980) is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. McGee is the creator and writer of ''Derry Girls'', a comedy series that began airing on Channel 4 in the UK in January 2018. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. Career She was writer on attachment with the Royal National Theatre in London in 2006. Her plays include ''Jump'', ''The Heights'', ''Nineteen Ninety Two'', and ''Girls and Dolls'', for which she won the Stewart Parker Trust New Playwright Bursary 2007. McGee's television credits include ''The Things I Haven't Told You'' for BBC Three, the Irish television series ''Raw'' which she created for RTÉ, time as a writer for three series of the BAFTA-nominated ''Being Human'' for the BBC, the Channel 4 sitcom ''London Irish'', which she created, writing for the Golden Globe-nominated drama series '' The White Queen'' for BBC 1, ''Indian Summers'' for Channel 4, and ''The Deceived'' for Channel 5 co-written with her husband Tobias B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian O'Reilly
Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term ''mashiach'' (מָשִׁיחַ) (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." It does not have a meaning of 'of Christ' or 'related or pertaining to Christ'. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
