Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry was born on July 5, 1955, in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. His academic posts include Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa (1984) and Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin (1995-1996). His early plays include BOSS GRADY'S BOYS, which opened in 1988, and won the BBC/Stewart Parker Award. His play THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in March 1995 and subsequently transferred to Broadway. It won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the Ireland/America Literary Prize, the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play, and the Writers' Guild Award (Best Fringe Play). Sebastian Barry also won the Lloyds Private Banking Playwright of the Year award in the same year. OUR LADY OF SLIGO (1998) was joint winner of the Peggy Ramsay Play Award and was seen Off-Broadway; and HINTERLAND premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and the Royal National Theatre, London, in 2002. He subsequently wrote WHISTLING PSYCHE (2004). Barry has also written poetry, including the collections “The Water-Colourist” (1983) and “Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever” (1989); a novel for children, “Elsewhere: The Adventures of Belemus” (1985); and short novels including “Time Out of Mind/Strappado Square” (1983). His novels include “The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty “(1998), translated into seven languages, and “Annie Dunne” (2002), set in Wicklow in the 1950s.