2015 Press Releases

New writer in residence appointed

14 Jul 2015
University College Cork (Photo: Tomas Tyner)

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 ValourDublinersEverydayDublin By LamplightFoley 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).

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.

University College Cork

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