NEIL AUSTIN was the recipient of the 2019 Tony Award for Ink (Friedman); the 2018 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Lyric); and the 2010 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Red (Golden). He was also awarded the 2017 and 2011 Olivier Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace, West End) and The White Guard (National, London). His Broadway credits include Ink, Travesties, Hughie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Evita, Red, Hamlet, The Seafarer and Frost/Nixon. Other work in the U.S. includes Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ... read more
Recent credits: Heisenberg (Wyndham's); Fatherland (Royal Exchange Theatre); Common (National Theatre); Angels in America (National Theatre); Junkyard (Bristol Old Vic); Fracked! (Chichester and tour); Before I Leave (Cardiff); Elegy (Donmar); Uncle Vanya (Almeida); Husbands and Sons (National); Hangmen (Royal Court and Wyndham's); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Olivier Award and Drama Desk Award - Gielgud, National Theatre, Broadway, and UK and US tours); Jerusalem (Royal Court, West End and Broadway); This House (National Theatre, Chichester and Garrick Theatre); The River (Royal Court and Broadway); The Nether (Royal Court/West End); Love's Sacrifice (RSC); The Days the Nights ... read more
Conor was born in Dublin in 1971 and attended University College Dublin where he began to write and direct. Original stage plays include Rum & Vodka, The Good Thief, This Lime Tree Bower, St Nicholas, The Weir (Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics Circle Awards), Dublin Carol, Port Authority, Shining City (Tony Award-nominated), The Seafarer (Tony, Olivier and Evening Standard Award-nominated), The Veil and The Night Alive (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play). His 2020 adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya won this year’s South Bank Show Sky Arts Theatre Award and was filmed for broadcast by the BBC ... read more
