Martin McDonagh: Biography, Movies & Photos

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1Won the 2003 Olivier Award for best new comedy for his play "The Lieutenant of Inishmore".
2Won the 2004 Olivier Award for best new play for his play "The Pillowman".
3Has twice been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as author of a Best Play nominee: in 1998 for "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" and in 1999 for "The Lonesome West."
4In 1997 he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy for his play "A Skull in Connemara".
5He used to spend his summers in Ireland. he divided his time between Easkey in Co. Sligo where his mother was from and Connemara Co. Galway where his father was from

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6Brother of screenwriter John Michael McDonagh.
7In 1998 he won the 1997-1998 Drama Desk Award for Oustanding play for "Beauty Queen of Leenane".
8In 2005 he was nominated for the 2004-2005 Drama Desk Award for Oustanding Play for "The Pillowman".
9Won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 1998 for his Play "The Beauty Queen of Leenane".
10He was nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play for "The Pillowman". He lost out to John Patrick Shanley for "Doubt".
11His Tony-nominated play "The Pillowman" was based on his own collection of short stories.
12His favorite music is Nirvana, The Clash and The Pogues.
13His greatest influences are not in theatre but film. He cites Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Terrence Malick and Quentin Tarantino.
14In 2006 he won an Obie Award for Best Play for "The Lieutenant of Inishmore".
15He was nominated in 2006 for the Drama Desk Award for Best Play for the Broadway production of "The Lieutenant of Inishmore".
16In 2006 he was nominated for Best Play at the Tony Awards for "The Lieutenant of Inishmore".
17In July 2006 he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
18At the age of 27 he was the first playwright since Shakespeare to have four plays running simultaneously in London's West-End
19For his first play "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" he won the 1996 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. It was seen for the very first time at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, in the west of Ireland in 1996.
20He began his writing career by scripting radio plays. None of them were ever produced but they taught him he could write dialogue and storytelling and in his own opinion that was all you needed for Theatre

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