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Peter Sheridan

1952 -

Born in Dublin, Peter Sheridan is a writer, theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He was one of the founder members of Project Arts Centre. He has worked with Charabanc Theatre Company and the Royal Court Theatre where he directed his own plays, The Liberty Suit and Emigrants. Sheridan directed The Balcony Belles, an award-winning documentary for Temple Films, and in 1998 he wrote and directed The Breakfast, a short film which won the Prix Arte Europe Award at the Brest International Film Festival. In 2000 he wrote and directed the film Borstal Boy, based on Brendan Behan's memoir. He is author of 44 - A Dublin Memoir (PanMacmillan, 1999) and Forty-Seven Roses (PanMacmillan, 2001). His third volume of memoirs, Break a Leg, was published in 2012 and adapted for the stage in 2013.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Break a Leg Peter Sheridan
Diary of a Hunger Strike Peter Sheridan
Down all the Days Peter Sheridan
Emigrants Peter Sheridan
Finders Keepers Peter Sheridan
No Entry Peter Sheridan
Paint It Black Peter Sheridan
Shades of the Jelly Woman (Part One) Peter Sheridan
The Liberty Suit Peter Sheridan Gerard Mannix Flynn
The Rock and Roll Show Peter Sheridan
Women at Work Jim Sheridan Peter Sheridan

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
47 Roses Peter Sheridan Peter Sheridan
Dialann Ocrais Peter Sheridan Ray Yeates Peter Sheridan
Mother of All the Behans Peter Sheridan Brian Behan
The Billy Club Puppets Peter Sheridan Paraic Cullen Federico García Lorca
The Illusion Peter Sheridan Pierre Corneille

Actor

Play Title Playwright
47 Roses Peter Sheridan Peter Sheridan
Break a Leg Peter Sheridan
Emigrants Peter Sheridan
Journal of a Hole Neil Jordan Jim Sheridan

Director

Play Title Playwright
Beyond the Brooklyn Sky Michael Hilliard Mulcahy
Dev G.P. Gallivan
Dialann Ocrais Peter Sheridan Ray Yeates Peter Sheridan Peter Sheridan
Aistriúchán ar 'Diary of a Hunger Strike'
I, Keano Michael Nugent Arthur Matthews Paul Woodfull
Journal of a Hole Neil Jordan Jim Sheridan
Lake Horses Devised by the company and scripted by Paul Conway, Gerard Lee, Judy Lunny, Michelle Manahan and Peter Sheridan.
Minding Frankie Shay Linehan Maeve Binchy
Mobile Homes Jim Sheridan
Mother of All the Behans Peter Sheridan Brian Behan
Adapted from the book by Brian Behan.
Shades of the Jelly Woman (Part One) Peter Sheridan
Written in collaboration with Jean Doyle.
Sick, Dying, Dead and Back Bernie Downes
Devised by the company
Somewhere Over The Balcony Marie Jones (1)
The Billy Club Puppets Peter Sheridan Paraic Cullen Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca
Adapted from the original play by Federico Garcia Lorca.
The Blind Fiddler Of Glenadauch Marie Jones (1)
The Ha'penny Place Jim Sheridan
The Illusion Peter Sheridan Pierre Corneille
An adaptation of 'L'Illusion Comique' by Corneille.
The Nativity What The Donkey Saw Alan McKee Conor Grimes
The Shawshank Redemption Owen O'Neill Dave Johns Stephen King (1) Stephen King (1)
Unless it Goes On Beyond the Grave Jim Sheridan Samuel Beckett

Script Advisor

Play Title Playwright
Minding Frankie Shay Linehan Maeve Binchy