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His play, "The Weir", won the BBC Award for Best New Play at the Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards in 1999 (1998 season).

He was awarded the 1997 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama) for Most Promising Playwright for The Weir performed at the Royal Court Theatre.

At the 2006 Tony Awards he was nominated for the Best Play for the Broadway Production of his play The Shining City

In 2008 he was nominated at the Tony Awards for the category of Best Direction of a play for his 2008 production of his play The Seafarer.

He was awarded the 1997 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for The Weir.

He won the Stewart Parker Award for his play, "The Good Thief".

He has won the following awards for his play, This Lime Tree Bower. A Thames TV Award, A Guinness/National Ingenuity Award and the Myer-Whitworth Award.

He was nominated for Best Play at the Dublin Fringe Festival and at the Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards in 2000 for his play, Dublin Carol.

While studying at University Collage Dublin, he had Three plays produced by the Universities Amatuer Theatre Group DramSoc. These plays were Taking Stock (1989), Michelle Pfeiffer (1990) & Scenes Federal (1991). These plays have never been reproduced Professionally.

He attended University Collage Dublin. It was here that he begin to write and direct Plays.

After graduation from University College Dublin he went on with other students to form Fly by Night Theatre Company.

In 2008 his play The Seafarer was Nominated for Best Play at the 2008 Tony Awards.

His play, "The Seafarer", at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2009 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Production of a Play (Large).

His play, "The Seafarer," at the Seanachai Theatre Company (Irish Theatre of Chicago) was nominated for a 2014 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Midsize Play Production.