Martin McDonagh is a contemporary Irish playwright. He has been awarded London Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 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 the Connemara”, “The Lonesome West”) and the “Aran Islands trilogy” (“The Cripple of Inishmaan”, “The Lieutenant of Inishmore”, “The Banshees of Inisheer”).
In Addition to the trilogies, McDonagh wrote the dark fantasy play “The Pillowman”, as well as two prize-winning radio plays. In March 2006 he won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for “Six Shooter” a film he wrote and directed.
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