Thomas Kilroy
Thomas Kilroy’s first play The O’Neill premiered on the Peacock stage in 1969. Other plays premiered by the Abbey Theatre include Tea and Sex and Shakespeare (1976), Talbot’s Box (1979), Ghosts after Ibsen (1989), Six Characters in Search of an Author after Pirandello (1996), The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde (1997) which featured at the Melbourne International Festival, Australia and the Barbican Bite 2000 International Theatre Festival, London and The Shape of Metal (2003).
Other plays include The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche, Blake, My Scandalous Life and Double Cross and The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre for the Field Day Theatre Company of which he was also a director. He has adapted plays by Pirandello, Ibsen, Wedekind and a celebrated version of Chekhov’s The Seagull for the Royal Court Theatre.
He has been awarded numerous prizes including the Guardian Fiction Prize, BBC Drama Prize, the Heinemann Award for Literature, the American-Irish Literary Award, Special Commendation at the Prix Nikki for television writing and was on Booker Prize short-list for his novel The Big Chapel. He was presented with a Special Tribute Award at the Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards in 2003 for his contribution to Irish Theatre. In 2008 he was awarded the Pen Cross Award for Literature. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern English at NUI Galway, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and of Aosdána.
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