Fergal O ByrneFergal O'Byrne is an award-winning writer for print, stage and screen. His debut novel Trolley Ride in Manhattan (Mentor Books, 2000) has become a cult classic. In 2022 his short story Sweetpea was a 3rd Place Winner of the prestigious Colm Tóibín Inernational Short Story Award and another Ribeye was Longlisted for the prestigious Alpine Fellowship 2020. In 2020 Fergal's award winning play Extremophiles received its world premiere in Copenhagen by the renowned That Theatre Company. This was followed by the second play of his Location Trilogy Rub-a-dub-dub, which premiered in early 2022, also in Copenhagen. The third play of the trilogy, Same Shit Different Planet, was staged in Copenhagen in Jan/Feb 2023. His previous stage work has garnered multiple awards, including; A Dragon's Tale (Eamon Keane Award 2013), Folie-a-Deux (Listowel 2015) and Extremophiles (Eamon Keane Award 2018, Papatango 2018 and NEWvember Festival 2017). He has also written several radio plays aired by Ireland's national broadcaster, RTÉ. Read More Read Less