Enda Walsh was born on 1967 and is an Irish playwright.
19 Facts About Enda Walsh
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Enda Walsh was born in Kilbarrack, North Dublin on 7 February 1967.
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Enda Walsh's father ran a furniture shop and his mother had been an actress.
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Notably during the recession in the 1980s, when profits were low, Enda Walsh says that he was earning more money managing his own newspaper round enterprise than his father was bringing home from the shop.
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Life in the large family was full of incident and Enda Walsh has claimed that many of his plays find their origin in his relationships with his father, his mother and her friends, his three brothers and two sisters.
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Enda Walsh attended Greendale Community School where he was taught by both Roddy Doyle and Paul Mercier.
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In 1993 Enda Walsh began working with Pat Kiernan, director of Corcadorca, a collaborative ensemble which devised what Enda Walsh calls 'terrible' plays.
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Many of Enda Walsh's plays including Disco Pigs, Bedbound, Small Things, Chatroom, New Electric Ballroom, The Walworth Farce, Penelope and Misterman, have been translated into more than 20 languages and have had productions throughout Europe and in Australia, New Zealand and the US.
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Enda Walsh wrote a musical play with David Bowie entitled Lazarus, which premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop from mid-November 2015 to mid-January 2016.
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The Galway International Arts Festival has played host to a new departure for Enda Walsh, involving art installation rooms with audio monologues, including Room 303 featuring the voice of Niall Buggy, A Girl's Bedroom featuring the voice of Charlie Murphy, Kitchen featuring the voice of Eileen Enda Walsh and Bathroom featuring the voice of Paul Reid.
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Enda Walsh wrote the book of the musical Sing Street adapted from the film of the same name written by John Carney.
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Enda Walsh writes screenplays too, starting with his short film Not a Bad Christmas.
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Enda Walsh adapted his play Disco Pigs, for the screen and co-wrote the screenplay of Hunger which was directed by Steve McQueen and starred Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who starved himself to death.
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Enda Walsh adapted his play Chatroom for a film directed by Hideo Nakata.
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Enda Walsh is currently under commission for three films, an adaptation of the children's story Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson, a film entitled Jules in the City based on the life and music of Rufus Wainwright and an adaptation of Gitta Sereny's book Into That Darkness, about the life of Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps.
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Enda Walsh says that 'all the plays are effectively about theatre, about writing'.
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Enda Walsh has often suggested that what interests him is 'about me actually getting through the day, you know'.
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Enda Walsh speaks of his experience, in London, of extreme OCD.
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Enda Walsh sees his characters as needing 'to proclaim and proclaim and proclaim.