TOM SWIFT
Writer

Tom has been writing for theatre since 2002. He has worked closely with The Performance Corporation, which has produced many of his plays including Candide (Best Adaptation, Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards 2002; Best Production, Dublin Fringe Festival 2002), The 7 Deadly Sins, The Butterfly
Ranch (Stewart Parker Trust nominee 2004), Dr Ledbetter’s Experiment (Kilkenny Arts Festival and Traverse Theatre Edinburgh Fringe Festival) a Best Production nominee in the Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards, The Yokohama Delegation (Kilkenny Arts Festival 2005), represented Ireland at the Prague Quadrennial Exhibition, and Drive-By(Cork Midsummer Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival 2006). In 2005 he was invited to Kenya to write Paka for The Performance Corporation and The Amani People’s Theatre. It was staged in Nairobi and Mombassa. His bilingual radio play The Flying Dutchman of Iniskill was broadcast in 2006 on Lyric FM and partner radio stations throughout Europe. His short play The Other Woman was part of Fishamble Theatre Company’s Whereabouts, winner of the Judges’ Prize in the 2006 Irish Times Theatre Awards. Tom is currently under commission from Ireland’s National Theatre, The Abbey and The Ark Children’s Cultural Centre, Dublin.

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