Peter Sheridan is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and director. He lives in the north side of Dublin.

His plays have a lyrical, vivid style amid tough dialog highlighting the difficulty and the promise of life in Ireland's capital. Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature was created in 1976 by the notable Irish American businessman, Dr Dan Rooney, owner and chairman of the NFL franchise, Pittsburgh Steelers....

. In 1980 he was writer-in-residence in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and his short film, The Breakfast, won several European awards. He wrote and directed the film Borstal Boy

Borstal Boy

Borstal Boy is an autobiographical 1958 book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Republican stance and warming to his fellow British prisoners...

  which was released in 2002.

He is the brother of the film director Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan is an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, Get Rich or Die Tryin and In America.-Life and career:...

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Plays

• Diary of a Hunger Strike
• Emigrants
• Finders Keepers
• No Entry
• Paint It Black
• Shades of the Jelly Woman (Part One)
• The Liberty Suit
• The Rock and Roll Show
• Women at Work

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