2015 Press Releases
New writer in residence appointed
Acclaimed Dublin dramatist Michael West will take up the UCC post in September.
Born in Dublin in 1967, West has collaborated extensively with The Corn Exchange theatre company, home to some of the most groundbreaking theatre in Ireland.
A noted adaptor of literary work, West has collaborated in Corn Exchange productions of Joyce’s Dubliners, Nabokov’s Lolita and most recently, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, by Eimear McBride. His play Freefall won an Irish Times Theatre Award for best new play and best director in 2009 and productions of Man of Valour, Dubliners, Everyday, Dublin By Lamplight, Foley and The Seagull have all won Irish Playwright and Screenwriters Guild awards. He has also translated many texts, including The Separation of Body and Soul by Calderón and Death and the Ploughman (Johannes von Saaz).
Acclaimed dramatist Michael West is UCC's new Writer-in-Residence @EnglishUCC. Funded by @CACSSS1 @artscouncil_ie pic.twitter.com/nfNSgz8Pbo
— UCC Ireland (@UCC)
July 14, 2015
His latest play, Conservatory, was staged at the Abbey Theatre in 2014.
West has been an adjunct professor in drama at Trinity College Dublin and he has taught playwriting at the Lir Academy, Dublin. While at UCC, he will teach on the MA in Creative Writing and offer workshops for the university community at large.
The position is joint-funded by the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences at UCC and the Arts Council.
Congratulations to the excellent @m_r_west and the lucky students at UCC https://t.co/q1FeRDlRAJ
— Methuen Drama (@MethuenDrama)
July 14, 2015
#artsucc Another good reason to study in UCC https://t.co/0tiyLk3bNG
— CACSSS - UCC (@CACSSS1)
July 14, 2015