Patrick Lonergan

Patrick Lonergan is a graduate of University College Dublin and National University of Ireland, Galway. He writes about theatre for many publications including The Irish Times and Irish Theatre Magazine, and is academic director of the Synge Summer School. He is a board member of Irish Theatre Magazine, and a theatre evaluator for the Irish Arts Council.

He is active in many scholarly organisations, acting as Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), and an executive member of the Irish Society for Theatre Research and the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project.

His first book Theatre and Globalization won the Theatre Book Prize in 2009, and one of the ESSE Book Awards in 2010. He has lectured on Irish literature in many countries, including Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, the U.S. and the UK. Most recently he was one of the keynote speakers at the 2010 IASIL conference