Bryan Delaney

Bryan Delaney is a playwright and screenwriter from Dublin, where he ran the New Playwrights Programme at The Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre. His television series Bailbirds is currently in development with ID8 Multimedia. He co-wrote and produced the feature film The Sounding, directed by Catherine Eaton and starring Frankie Faison and Harris Yulin. The film won over two dozen festival awards, including four festival grand prizes, and is distributed internationally by HBO. His plays include The Seedbed (Aspen Institute Theater Masters Visionary Playwright Award; nominee James Tait Black Prize for Drama, nominee L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award); The Onion Game (King’s Cross New Writing Award; BBC Writersroom winner), and The Cobbler (Katherine Cornell Award; 16th International Playwriting Competition winner). His plays have had productions and readings in Ireland, the U.K., The U.S. and internationally and have been translated into several languages. A recipient of multiple awards from The Peggy Ramsay Foundation and the Arts Council of Ireland, he was awarded an Aspen Institute Fellowship for leadership in his field, as well as the Samuel Beckett Centenary International Writer's Residency at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris. He was Playwright in Residence at Irish Classical Theatre Company, Buffalo, and currently teaches dramatic writing at Harvard where he was awarded Harvard's James E. Conway Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing.