About the Author
Matin McDonagh, a contemporary Irish playwright, has been awarded the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for most promising playwright in 1996. His dramatic corpus to date incorporates two dark comedic trilogies, The Galway Trilogy (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West) and The Aran Islands Trilogy (The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Banshees of Inisheer), and the dark fantasy, The Pillowman, as well as two prize-winning radio plays, including 'The Tale of the Wolf and the Woodcutter'. In March 2006 he won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Six Shooter, a film he wrote and directed.