Thomas Kilroy
Thomas Kilroy is one of the foremost contemporary Irish playwrights. He has written fourteen plays for the stage, most of which have been associated with Dublin's Abbey Theatre. They include THE DEATH... Read more
Thomas Kilroy is one of the foremost contemporary Irish playwrights. He has written fourteen plays for the stage, most of which have been associated with Dublin's Abbey Theatre. They include THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF MR. ROCHE, TALBOT’S BOX, DOUBLE CROSS, and THE SECRET FALL OF CONSTANCE WILDE. The latter was featured at the Melbourne International Festival, Australia, and the Barbican Bite International Theatre Festival, London. His play THE SHAPE OF METAL was the Abbey Theatre contribution to the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2003. In 2004 Kilroy was given a Special Achievement Award for his contribution to theatre at the Irish Times Theatre Awards. He has been awarded numerous other prizes, including the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Heinemann Award for Literature, the American-Irish Literary Award, and the short list Booker Prize (for his novel “The Big Chapel”). Kilroy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.