CONOR MCPHERSON was born in Dublin in 1971. Plays include: Rum & Vodka (Fly by Night Theatre Co. Dublin); The Good Thief (Dublin Theatre Festival; Stewart Parker Award); This Lime Tree Bower (Fly by Night Theatre Co. and Bush Theatre; Meyer-Whitworth Award); St Nicholas (Bush Theatre and Primary Stages New York); The Weir (Royal Court, Duke of York’s West End, Walter Kerr Theatre New York; Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle, George Devine Awards); Dublin Carol (Royal Court and Atlantic Theater New York); Port Authority (Ambassadors Theatre West End, Gate Theatre Dublin and Atlantic Theater New York), Shining City (Royal Court, Gate Theatre Dublin & Manhattan Theatre Club New York; Tony Award® nomination Best Play); The Seafarer (National Theatre, Abbey Theatre Dublin, Booth Theatre New York; Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard, Tony Award nominations Best Play), The Veil (National Theatre) and The Night Alive (Donmar Warehouse). Theatre adaptations include Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds (Gate Theatre Dublin and Guthrie Theatre Minneapolis) and August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios). Work for the cinema includes I Went Down, Saltwater, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, The Actors and The Eclipse. He also adapted John Banville’s Elegy for April for BBC TV. Awards for his screenwriting include three Best Screenplay Awards from the Irish Film and Television Academy; The Spanish Cinema Writers Circle Best Screenplay Award; The CICAE Award for Best Film Berlin Film festival; Jury Prize San Sebastian Film Festival; and The Melies D’Argent Award for Best European Film.
