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GAVIN KOSTICK

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Gavin Kostick has written over twenty plays which have been produced in Dublin, on tour around Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK, New York, Philadelphia and RomaniA. Favourite works include the ash Fire, the Flesh addict, the asylum Ball, Forked, the Medusa, an Image for the Rose PArts 1, 2 and 3 and This is What We Sang. He has written a number of works for the Gaiety School of acting, the most recent being Olive Skin, Blood Mouth. His works have been staged by leading Irish companies at a wide range of festivals and venues. His plays and Theatre projects have been nominated for and have won various awards across a range of categories including: the Stewart Parker Trust, Irish Times Theatre awards, absolut Fringe awards, First Irish, New York. Current work includes creating an ongoing series of short plays such as Fight Night, Connected and the Sit, to provide Irish actors with quality tourable works. He recently worked with Louise Lowe and St Francis Hospice, Raheny, to create the end of the Road, an off-site production for Made in Temple Bar, a 20th anniversary festival. With composer Raymond Deane he has written an opera, Kokoshka and the Doll a section of which was broadcast on Lyric FM. Gavin is the Literary Manager for Fishamble. He works with new writers for Theatre through innovative projects such as Whereabouts, a series of site-specific short plays, script development, readings and a variety of courses. Over 130 plays have been produced, nationally and internationally, by writers completing courses with Fishamble. He has provided Dramaturgical support for dozens of theatrical productions. Over 50 per cent of the writers of all new plays staged on the island of Ireland in 2010 received developmental support from Gavin. For Dublin Fringe Festival 2007, his 5½ hour performance as Charlie Marlow in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness Complete received the Spirit of the Fringe award, went on to a sell-out run as part of Reviewed at the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2008, and was performed at the South Bank as part of the London Festival of Literature, 2009. He has been active in setting up Dublin Central Arts Workers, the first constituency group of artists and Arts workers to campaign to promote and sustain the value and worth of the Arts in Ireland.

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below is a list of Gavin Kostick's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        . . .a coat         Ash Fire, The         Asylum Ball, The         At The Ford         Black Wednesday         Contact         Doom Raider         Drowning Room, The         End of the Road, The         Fight Night         Flesh Addict, The         Forked         Fox And Crow         Games People Play, The         Jack Ketch's Gallows Jig         Last Year         Man Who Couldn't Cross Roads, The         Mysteries 2000         Olive Skin, Blood Mouth         Picture Of Dorian Gray, The         Pocket Music         Sit, The         Spartacus: Highway To Hell         Swing         This Is What they Sang         War Of the Roses Iii: Back In Black         War Of the Roses: An Image For the Rose         War Of the Roses: the Risen