Conor McPherson

Conor McPherson is an Irish playwright, director, and screenwriter. Born in Dublin in 1971, he graduated from University College Dublin where he founded the Fly By Night Theatre Company. He wrote his first play Rum and Vodka in 1992 and his 1997 play The Weir won the Olivier Award for Best New Play, before transferring to Broadway. Subsequent plays include Port Authority (2001), Dublin Carol (2003), Shining City (2004), and The Seafarer (2006). The Seafarer marked McPherson’s debut as both playwright and director. McPherson’s 2013 play The Night Alive won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

In 2017, McPherson was approached by Bob Dylan’s representatives to write a show based around Dylan’s music. The result was Girl From the North Country, a piece which reimagines 22 of Dylan’s best known songs and weaves them into a story of struggle and heartbreak in 1930s America.

On screen, McPherson has written the screenplays for I Went Down, The Actors, The Eclipse, and Artemis Fowl (co-written).