Over the past twenty years Owen McCafferty’s plays have been performed throughout Europe and have won various awards. His work includes Death of a Comedian (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Unfaithful (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Titanic: Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912 (MAC, Belfast); The Absence of Women (Lyric Theatre, Belfast, and Tricycle Theatre, London); Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar Theatre); Closing Time (National Theatre, London); Shoot the Crow (Druid and Prime Cut Productions, Belfast); Mojo Mickybo (Kabosh); and Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre, London, and Prime Cut Productions, Belfast), which won the Meyer-Whitworth, John Whiting and Evening Standard Awards: he is the only playwright to win these three major awards in one year for the same play. In 2012, Quietly marked his debut at the Abbey Theatre. This production transferred to the Traverse Theatre for the Edinburgh Festival 2013, was awarded a Scotsman Fringe First and won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play in 2013.