OWEN McCAFFERTY

Born in 1961, Owen lives with his wife and three children in Belfast. His work includes Shoot the Crow (Druid, Galway, 1997; Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2003); Mojo Mickybo (Kabosh, Belfast, 1998); Closing Time (National Theatre, London, 2002); and Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre, London, 2003). All of these plays are published by Nick Hern Books, including Cold Comfort which appears in an anthology of one-man plays, Singular (male) Voices. He has won the Meyer-Whitworth, the John Whiting and the Evening Standard Awards for New Playwriting.