Gary Mitchell

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Gary Mitchell (born May 3, 1965) is a Northern Ireland playwright.

From a working-class, Northern Protestant loyalist background, Mitchell's first major success was the production (by Connall Morrison) of his In A Little World of Our Own at the Peacock. Its gripping and unflinching portrayal of loyalist culture won it an Irish Times Theatre Award for best new play, and it later went to Belfast as part of an Abbey Theatre tour. The following year the Peacock Theatre produced his As The Beast Sleeps.

His works have also premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre.

He won the prestigious Stewart Parker Award for Independent Voice; other accolades include the George Devine Award and the Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright.

In November 2005, he was forced out of his home in the Belfast suburb of Rathcoole after it was attacked by loyalist paramilitaries. He and his family have since been living in hiding somewhere in Northern Ireland.