Gavin Kostick is a playwright, dramaturge at the LIR academy, Dublin,[1] and literary manager of Fishamble: The New Play Company.[2] He founded the Show in a Bag series of plays.[3]
Works
Gavin Kostick's dramatic works include The Ash Fire (1992), winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award,[4][5][6] which is based loosely on the experiences of his grandfather who entered Ireland after he 'jumped ship in the wrong port'.[7]
Kostick's other plays include Jack Ketch’s Gallows Jig (1994),[8]The Flesh Addict (1996),[9]Doom Raider (2000),[10]The Asylum Ball (2000),[11]Contact (2002),[12]The Medusa (2003),[13] a new interpretation of Homer's Odyssey (2023),[14][15]Fight Night (2010),[16]Swing (2013),[17][18]At the Ford (2015),[19]Games People Play (2015),[20] winner of the Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards, Pocket Music[21]Gym Swim Party (2019),[22] and Invitation to a Journey (2016).[23] After gathering oral histories from Belfast's Jewish community, Gavin Kostick wrote This is What we Sang (2009),[24] a play that was performed at the TriBeCa Synagogue (New York)[25] and featured at the 2011 American Conference of Irish Studies.[26]
Gavin Kostick was the librettist for Raymond Deane’s opera The Alma Fetish.[27] 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'sHeart of Darkness.[28]
