Martin McDonagh Author

Martin McDonagh's first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane won four Tonys, and the Laurence Olivier Award in 1996. Within the first year of his writing career, he went from an unheard of dramatist to having four of his plays simultaneously playing in the West End. Patrick Lonergan lectures at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is a theatre critic for the Irish Times and Irish Theatre Magazine, and has published and lectured widely on Irish drama, and especially on the works of Martin McDonagh.