Enda Walsh

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name = Enda Walsh


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birthdate = 1967
birthplace = Dublin, Ireland
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occupation = playwright, screenwriter
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Enda Walsh (born 1967) is an Irish playwright born in Dublin and currently living in London. Walsh attended the same secondary school where both Roddy Doyle and Paul Mercier taught. Having written for the Dublin Youth Theatre, he moved to Cork where he wrote Fishy Tales for the Graffitti 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 then he moved to London, where he has been particularly prolific over the past five years, bringing his productions to thirteen stage plays, two radio plays and two screenplays.

Winner of the 1997 Stewart Parker and the George Devine Awards, he won the Abbey Theatre Writer in Association Award for 2006. Productions of his plays at the Edinburgh Festival have won three Fringe First Awards, two Critic's Awards and a Herald Archangel Award (2008). His plays, notably Disco Pigs, Bedbound, Small Things, Chatroom, New Electric Ballroom and The Walworth Farce, 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 RTE winning the I PA Radio Drama Award and The Monotonous Life of Little Miss P for the BBC commended at the Gran Prix Berlin. His commissioned work includes plays for Paines Plough in London, the Druid Theatre in Galway, the Kammerspiele in Munich and the Royal National's Connections Project in London. He wrote the screenplay of the film Disco Pigs and co-wrote the screenplay of Hunger, with Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen. The recently released film Hunger, which was directed by Steve McQueen and stars Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who starved himself to death in protest over British rule, recently won the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, the Best Film award at the Sydney Film Festival and the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Heartbeat Award at the Dinard British Film Festival. He is currently under commission for two other films, an adaptation of the children's story The Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson and an adaptation of his own play Chatroom.

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). 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.
* "Bedbound" (2000) - Dublin Theatre Festival, New Theatre, Dublin. 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) - Boomerang Theatre Company, Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork. National Theatre, London. & etc.
* "The New Electric Ballroom" (2005) - Kammerspiel, Munich. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First winner and Herald Archangel Award 2008).
* "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), New York.
* "The New Electric Ballroom" (2008)
* "How These Men Talk" (2008) - Zurich Shauspielehaus, Switzerland. Druid Theatre Company, Galway.
* "Lyndie's Gotta Gun" (2008) - Artistas Unidos, Lisbon. Druid Theatre Company, Galway.

Film

* "Disco Pigs" (2001)
* "Hunger" (2008) - Caméra d'Or (Best First Film), Cannes Film Festival 2008 and Best Film Sydney Film Festival and Jerusalem Film Festival 2008, Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, Heartbeat Award at the Dinard British Film Festival.
* "Island of the Aunts"
* "Chatroom"

External links

* http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsW/walsh-enda.html
* http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5500
* http://www.irishplayography.com/search/person.asp?PersonID=2224