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]
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's Heart of Darkness. [28]
He is the brother of the novelist and historian Conor Kostick. [29]
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]
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's Heart of Darkness. [28]
He is the brother of the novelist and historian Conor Kostick. [29]