Gavin Kostick is a playwright, dramaturge at the LIR academy, Dublin, and literary manager of Fishamble: The New Play Company. He founded the ''Show in a Bag'' series of plays.

Works

Gavin Kostick's dramatic works include ''The Ash Fire'' (1992), winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award, which is based loosely on the experiences of his grandfather who entered Ireland after he 'jumped ship in the wrong port'. Kostick's other plays include ''Jack Ketch’s Gallows Jig'' (1994), ''The Flesh Addict'' (1996), ''Doom Raider'' (2000), ''The Asylum Ball'' (2000), ''Contact'' (2002), ''The Medusa'' (2003), a new interpretation of Homer's ''Odyssey'' (2023), ''Fight Night'' (2010), ''Swing'' (2013), ''At the Ford'' (2015), ''Games People Play'' (2015), winner of the Best New Play at the ''Irish Times'' Theatre Awards, ''Pocket Music'' ''Gym Swim Party'' (2019), and ''Invitation to a Journey'' (2016). After gathering oral histories from Belfast's Jewish community, Gavin Kostick wrote ''This is What we Sang'' (2009), a play that was performed at the

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(New York) and featured at the 2011 American Conference of Irish Studies. Gavin Kostick was the librettist for

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’s opera ''The Alma Fetish''. In 2007, he won the Spirit of the Fringe Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival for his five-hour performance as Marlow from Joseph Conrad's ''

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''.

Personal life

He is the brother of the novelist and historian

Conor Kostick Conor Kostick (born 26 June 1964) is a historian and writer living in Dublin. He is the author of many works of history and fiction. A former chairperson of the Irish Writers Union and member of the board of the National Library of Ireland, he ...

References

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