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Neil Flynn is an award-winning Irish writer-director for stage, screen, and radio. He is also a published poet.
He is the first Irish writer ever to win the BBC / British Council International Playwriting Award. Following an awards ceremony at Broadcasting House London, his play The Snowman premieres on the BBC World Service and a global audience of over forty million.
His first play for stage won the acclaimed International Playwriting Competition held by the Warehouse Theatre, London leading to his professional debut.
He was awarded a prestigious PJ O’Connor Radio Drama award for his first play for radio leading to his debut broadcast commission on RTÉ radio drama.
His work has been nominated for the Stewart Parker New Play Award, shortlisted for the Eamon Keane Playwriting Competition, achieved top ten in the Verity Bargate Award, and been longlisted for the Bruntwood prize
His work has also been shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Europa Drama Prize and the Rose D’Ór European Broadcasting Award.
In addition, he has been shortlisted for the C21 Global Original Television Drama Series Award; his first screenplay was a Selected script in the BBC Drama Script Room.
He directed the 21st-anniversary revival of Mark O’ Rowe’s acclaimed Howie The Rookie for Glass Mask Theatre Company in Dublin. ‘Viscerally irresistible’ Sunday Independent. ‘Best of the week’
**** Sunday Times.
His screen debut as writer-director, the acclaimed short film An Cat Dubh made its festival debut at the Kerry International Film Festival. His writing has being grant-supported by the Arts Council, Creative Ireland, Kerry County Council and the Peggy Ramsey Foundation.
. ‘An extraordinary piece of writing’ ***** Sunday Independent on Microdisney
‘Stunning Drama...Powerhouse cast...a terrific writer’ **** The Arts Review on Sky Falls
‘Wildly ambitious’ The Irish Times on Gravity (A Love Story)
‘Neil Flynn’s Clever and Elegant New Play plumbs the depths of the ocean’ Irish Independent on Talk
To Me..’Absorbing…A Psychological Striptease’ Sunday Independent on The Day Of The Zebra
‘A talent to be watched’ ****British Theatre Guide