Stewart Parker Trust Awards Short List 2017
Autumn Royal by Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Beatlebone and City Of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies The Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin City Literary Award, the Goldsmith’s Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House and many other journals. His work has been translated into 16 languages. He also writes plays, screenplays and radio plays. He lives in County Sligo.
Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Beatlebone and City Of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies The Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin City Literary Award, the Goldsmith’s Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House and many other journals. His work has been translated into 16 languages. He also writes plays, screenplays and radio plays. He lives in County Sligo.
Say Nothin' to No One by Thommas Kane Byrne
Thommas Kane Byrne is an actor/writer from Dublin's North Inner City. He is a recent graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting, where he was awarded the Gaiety Theatre Bursary. Thommas and his best friend Ericka Roe are co-artistic directors of The Breadline Collective. Their maiden production Say Nothin' to No One premiered at Theatre Upstairs in Summer 2017. It is the first volume of The TKB Trilogy: St Mary's Mansions. The second volume Well That's What I Heard will open at Theatre Upstairs this June. As an actor, Thommas' credits include Bulger in Conor McMahon's Stitches (Tailored Films, Dark Sky ENT. Netflix), Bill In Lee Coffey's True Pirates Never Die and Otto In Ill Advised Theatre Company's Spring.
Thommas Kane Byrne is an actor/writer from Dublin's North Inner City. He is a recent graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting, where he was awarded the Gaiety Theatre Bursary. Thommas and his best friend Ericka Roe are co-artistic directors of The Breadline Collective. Their maiden production Say Nothin' to No One premiered at Theatre Upstairs in Summer 2017. It is the first volume of The TKB Trilogy: St Mary's Mansions. The second volume Well That's What I Heard will open at Theatre Upstairs this June. As an actor, Thommas' credits include Bulger in Conor McMahon's Stitches (Tailored Films, Dark Sky ENT. Netflix), Bill In Lee Coffey's True Pirates Never Die and Otto In Ill Advised Theatre Company's Spring.
The Half of It by Karen Cogan
Karen Cogan trained as an actor at RADA. Since graduating, she has performed at the Old Vic, Southwark Playhouse and the Gielgud Theatre and on film for Michael Winterbottom, and Pinewood Studios. Karen’s play DRIP FEED was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award. She reached the top 6 of 1,200 submissions. She is Playwright-In-Residence at Cathal Cleary’s MOMMO Theatre and her first play THE HALF OF IT played a found space as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2017. THE HALF OF IT was nominated for 5 Fringe Awards and won the First Fortnight Award for challenging mental health stigma through the arts. She is on the shortlist, nominated by RADA, for the Adopt-A-Playwright Award 2018.
Karen Cogan trained as an actor at RADA. Since graduating, she has performed at the Old Vic, Southwark Playhouse and the Gielgud Theatre and on film for Michael Winterbottom, and Pinewood Studios. Karen’s play DRIP FEED was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award. She reached the top 6 of 1,200 submissions. She is Playwright-In-Residence at Cathal Cleary’s MOMMO Theatre and her first play THE HALF OF IT played a found space as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2017. THE HALF OF IT was nominated for 5 Fringe Awards and won the First Fortnight Award for challenging mental health stigma through the arts. She is on the shortlist, nominated by RADA, for the Adopt-A-Playwright Award 2018.
Happy Birthday, Jacob by Michael Marshall
Michael Marshall is a Dublin-based playwright. His first play Happy Birthday, Jacob received a public reading as part of Druid Debuts and was first staged in The New Theatre 2017. He is a holder of a BA hons in Performing Arts with a primary focus in Theatre Design (Sligo IT), he also holds an MFA in Playwriting from The Lir Academy 2016.
Michael Marshall is a Dublin-based playwright. His first play Happy Birthday, Jacob received a public reading as part of Druid Debuts and was first staged in The New Theatre 2017. He is a holder of a BA hons in Performing Arts with a primary focus in Theatre Design (Sligo IT), he also holds an MFA in Playwriting from The Lir Academy 2016.
Charlie's A Clepto by Clare Monnelly
Clare Monnelly is an actor and writer who trained at the Gaiety School of Acting. She has worked extensively in theatre with Druid, the Abbey, the Gate among others, and was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for her performance in Livin Dred's Bailegangaire. Last year she wrote and performed her debut play Charlie's A Clepto in Axis Ballymun and on tour, and was subsequently awarded the Jim McNaughton Tilestyle Bursary for Commissioned Artists, and was nominated for two Irish Times Theatre Awards for Best New Play and Best Actress. Screen work includes Rip to the Rescue, Alison Spittle in Ireland, Smitten, Identicals, Scup, International Emmy Award winning Moone Boy and RTE and Deadpan's Nowhere Fast.
Clare Monnelly is an actor and writer who trained at the Gaiety School of Acting. She has worked extensively in theatre with Druid, the Abbey, the Gate among others, and was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award for her performance in Livin Dred's Bailegangaire. Last year she wrote and performed her debut play Charlie's A Clepto in Axis Ballymun and on tour, and was subsequently awarded the Jim McNaughton Tilestyle Bursary for Commissioned Artists, and was nominated for two Irish Times Theatre Awards for Best New Play and Best Actress. Screen work includes Rip to the Rescue, Alison Spittle in Ireland, Smitten, Identicals, Scup, International Emmy Award winning Moone Boy and RTE and Deadpan's Nowhere Fast.
The Water Orchard by Eoghan Quinn
Eoghan Quinn is a Dublin-born writer and performer. He is a founding member of Collapsing Horse Theatre, with whom he has worked as a writer, performer, and dramaturg. Some recent work includes: writer for The Water Orchard (Project Arts Centre, 2017); writer & performer in Bears in Space (‘Best Playwright’ Award - Origins 1st Irish, 59e59 NYC, 2016; Soho Theatre London, 2015; Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe, 2014). Eoghan is also a MacCracken Fellow at New York University, where he is in the latter stages of a PhD in English and American literature. He has a B.A. in Music, has provided live sound design for Sugarglass Theatre’s Outlying Islands (Connolly Theatre, NYC, 2016), and Besieged (Shapiro Theatre, NYC, 2015).
Eoghan Quinn is a Dublin-born writer and performer. He is a founding member of Collapsing Horse Theatre, with whom he has worked as a writer, performer, and dramaturg. Some recent work includes: writer for The Water Orchard (Project Arts Centre, 2017); writer & performer in Bears in Space (‘Best Playwright’ Award - Origins 1st Irish, 59e59 NYC, 2016; Soho Theatre London, 2015; Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe, 2014). Eoghan is also a MacCracken Fellow at New York University, where he is in the latter stages of a PhD in English and American literature. He has a B.A. in Music, has provided live sound design for Sugarglass Theatre’s Outlying Islands (Connolly Theatre, NYC, 2016), and Besieged (Shapiro Theatre, NYC, 2015).
