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THOMAS KILROY

1934 -

Thomas Kilroy was born in Callan, Co Kilkenny in 1934. He served as play editor at the Abbey in 1977 and was appointed Director of Field Day Theatre Company in 1988. Kilroy was Professor of English at UCG and has published a number of academic essays and studies. In 1989, he resigned his professorship, to concentrate fully on writing. His many awards include the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Heinemann Award for Literature, the AIB Literary Prize and an Irish PEN Award. Thomas Kilroy is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, the Irish Academy of Letters and Aosdána. He was honoured with a special Lifetime Achievement Award at the ESB/Irish Times Theatre Awards in 2004. He lives in County Mayo.

PLAYWRITING CREDITS

Play Title Playwright
Double Cross Thomas Kilroy
Signatories Marina Carr Emma Donoghue Rachel Feehily Hugo Hamilton Thomas Kilroy Frank McGuinness Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Joseph O'Connor (1)
Talbot's Box Thomas Kilroy
Tea and Sex and Shakespeare Thomas Kilroy
The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche Thomas Kilroy
The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre Thomas Kilroy
The O'Neill Thomas Kilroy
The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde Thomas Kilroy
The Shape of Metal Thomas Kilroy

ADAPTATIONS

Play Title Playwright
Christ Deliver Us! Thomas Kilroy Frank Wedekind
Ghosts Thomas Kilroy Henrik Ibsen
Six Characters in search of an Author Thomas Kilroy Luigi Pirandello
The Seagull Thomas Kilroy Anton Chekhov