Enda Walsh

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Enda Walsh
Born 1967 (age 46–47)
Dublin, Ireland
Occupation Playwright, screenwriter
Nationality Irish

Enda Walsh (born 1967) is an Irish playwright.

Biography

Born in Dublin, Walsh lives in London. He attended the same secondary school in which Roddy Doyle and Paul Mercier taught. After writing for the Dublin Youth Theatre, he moved to Cork where he wrote Fishy Tales for the Graffiti Theatre Company, followed by Ginger Ale Boy for Corcadorca Theatre Company. His main breakthrough came with the production of his play Disco Pigs in collaboration with director Pat Kiernan of Corcadorca. Since he moved to London he has been particularly prolific from 2005, bringing his productions to seventeen stage plays, two radio plays, three screenplays and one musical for which he won a Tony Award.

Winner of the 1997 Stewart Parker and the George Devine Awards, he won the 2006 Abbey Theatre Writer in Association Award and the 2010 Obie Award for playwriting. Productions of his plays at the Edinburgh Festival have won four Edinburgh Fringe First Awards, two Critic's Awards and a Herald Archangel Award (2008). His plays, notably Disco Pigs,[1] Bedbound, Small Things, Chatroom, New Electric Ballroom,[2] The Walworth Farce, Penelope and Misterman, have been translated into more than 20 languages and have had productions throughout Europe and in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. He has written two radio plays, with Four Big Days in the Life of Dessie Banks for RTÉ winning the PPI Award for Best Radio Drama (2001) and The Monotonous Life of Little Miss P for the BBC commended at the Berlin Prix Europa (2003). His commissioned work includes plays for Paines Plough in London, the Druid Theatre in Galway, the Kammerspiele in Munich and the Royal National Theatre's Connections Project in London. He participated in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six, for which he wrote a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible. He has written the musical Once, an adaptation of the Oscar-winning film Once, which appeared off-Broadway in December 2011 and January 2012 and transferred to Broadway from March 2012 and will also run in London's West End from March 2013: it has won numerous awards, including 8 Tony Awards and a Grammy Award (see below).[3][4]

Enda won the 1999 Cork Film Centre/RTE Short Script Award for his short film Not a Bad Christmas. He wrote the screenplay of the film Disco Pigs, which starred Cilian Murphy, and co-wrote the screenplay of Hunger which was directed by Steve McQueen and starred Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who starved himself to death in protest over British rule. Hunger won numerous awards (see below) including the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, Best Film Award from the Evening Standard British Film Awards 2009 and a nomination for Best British Film at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards. He wrote an adaptation of his play Chatroom for a film directed by Hideo Nakata which was selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. He is currently under commission for three films, an adaptation of the children's story Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson (for Cuba Pictures), a film entitled Jules in the City based on the life and music of Rufus Wainwright and an adaptation of Gitta Sereny’s book Into That Darkness, about the life of Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps.

Works

Theatre

  • Fishy Tales (1993) – Graffiti Theatre Company, Popes Quay, Cork.
  • The Ginger Ale Boy (1995) – Corcadorca Theatre Company, Granary Theatre, Cork.
  • Disco Pigs (1996) – Corcadorca Theatre Company, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. Dublin Fringe Festival (Best Fringe Production Award 1996). Arts Council Playwrights Award 1996. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival (Critic's Award 1997). West End, London. & etc.
  • Sucking Dublin (1997) – Abbey Theatre Company, Samuel Becket Theatre, Dublin.
  • Misterman (1999) – Corcadorca Theatre Company, Granary Theatre, Cork. Origin Theatre, New York, Washington and Dublin. Black Box Theatre, Galway (2011). St Ann's Warehouse, New York (2011). National Theatre, London. Four nominations for Irish Times Theatre Awards and winner of Best Actor Award for Cilian Murphy and Best Set Design for Jamie Vartan. Winner of 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance by Cillian Murphy, and nominated for one additional award.
  • Bedbound (2000) – Dublin Theatre Festival, New Theatre, Dublin. Winner of Irish Times Theatre Awards Best Actor Award for Peter Gowen. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First winner and Critic's Award 2001). New York. Royal Court, London. & etc.
  • Pondlife Angels (2005) – Cork Midsummer Festival, Granary Theatre, Cork.
  • Chatroom (2005) – Behind The Scenes Theatre Company, Buckhaven Theatre, Fife. National Theatre, London. & etc.
  • The New Electric Ballroom (2005) – Kammerspiele, Munich (Theater Heute's Best Foreign Play 2005). Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First winner and Herald Archangel Award 2008). Irish Times Theatre Awards Best New Play Award 2008. Obie Award 2010. World Tour including New York, Los Angeles, Perth and London (http://www.druid.ie/productions/the-new-electric-ballroom-by-enda-walsh).
  • The Small Things (2005) – Paines Plough Company, Menier Chocolate Factory, London. Druid Theatre Company, Galway Arts Festival.
  • The Walworth Farce (2006) – Druid Theatre Company, Town Hall Theatre, Galway. Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First winner 2007). World Tour 2009-2010, including New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto, Los Angeles, Miami, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, Wellington, London, Salford, Oxford (http://www.druid.ie/productions/the-walworth-farce-2009).
  • How These Men Talk (2008) – Zurich Shauspielehaus, Switzerland. Druid Theatre Company, Galway.
  • Lyndie's Gotta Gun (2008) – Artistas Unidos, Lisbon. Druid Theatre Company, Galway.
  • Delirium (2008) – An adaptation of Dostoevsky’s 'The Brothers Karamazov' for Theatre O Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Barbican Theatre, London.
  • The Man in the Moon (2009) – co-written with Jack Healy, The Albany, Deptford, London.
  • My Friend Duplicity (2010) – short play – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival.
  • Penelope (2010) – OberhausenTheater: RUHR.2010, Druid Theatre Company, Galway (http://www.druid.ie/productions/penelope). Winner of Irish Times Theatre Awards Best Supporting Actor Award for Mikel Murfi. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First winner 2010). World Tour included Helsinki, New York and London. Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago (2011).
  • Sixty Six (2011) – one of 66 writers who contributed a contemporary response to each chapter of the King James Bible, Bush Theatre.
  • Once (2011) – Musical adaptation of the film Once, New York Theater Workshop (Off-Broadway: December 2011-January 2012) and Bernard B. Jacobs Theater (Broadway: from March 2012). Winner of 3 Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Musical, with 4 additional nominations. Winner of Best Musical Award from New York Drama Critics' Circle. Winner of 3 Outer Critics Circle Awards, for Outstanding Broadway Musical and Outstanding Book and Director of Musical, with 4 additional nominations. Winner of Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Musical, with 2 additional nominations. Winner of 4 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical, with 2 additional nominations. Winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical, with 3 additional nominations. Grammy Award 2013 winner for Best Musical Theater Album.

Film

References

  1. ↑ Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs, Nick Hern Books, London, 1997. ISBN 978-1-85459-398-6
  2. ↑ Enda Walsh, New Electric Ballroom, Nick Hern Books, London, 2008. ISBN 978-1-85459-532-4
  3. ↑ "Tony awards 2012: Drinks all round for the creators of Once". The Guardian. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2012. 
  4. ↑ "Once sweeps the boards with not one, but eight Tony awards on Broadway". Irish Independent. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2012. 

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