Neil Flynn is an author, poet and award-winning writer and director for stage, screen, and radio.

His first play for stage won the acclaimed International Playwriting Competition run by the Warehouse Theatre, London leading to his playwriting debut while still in his twenties.

He was awarded a prestigious PJ O’Connor Radio Drama award leading to his debut broadcast commission on RTE radio drama.

His fiction and poetry is published in presitgious journals and magazines among them Cyphers, Stand, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, The Glasgow Review, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Honest Ulsterman.

He is the first Irish writer ever to win the BBC / British Council International Playwriting Award. Following an awards ceremony at Broadcasting House London, his play The Snowman premiered on the BBC World Service to a global audience.

His work for stage has been nominated for the Stewart Parker New Play Award, shortlisted for the Eamon Keane Playwriting Competition, achieved top ten in the Verity Bargate Award, and been longlisted for the Bruntwood prize

His work for radio has also been shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Europa Drama Prize and the Rose D’Or European Broadcasting Award.

His work for screen has been shortlisted for the C21 Global Original Television Drama Series Award. His first screenplay was a Selected script from over a thousand in the BBC Drama Script Room.

He directed the 21st-anniversary revival of Mark O’ Rowe’s acclaimed Howie The Rookie for Glass Mask Theatre Company in Dublin. ‘Viscerally irresistible’ Sunday Independent. ‘Best of the week’

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sunday Times.

His screen debut as writer-director, the acclaimed short film An Cat Dub made its festival debut at the Kerry International Film Festival.

His writing has been grant-supported by the Arts Council, Creative Ireland, Kerry County Council and the Peggy Ramsey Foundation.

*Neil is represented by Philip Gwyn Jones at Greyhound Literary Agency, London.

“Fertile… Evocative…Memorably disturbing’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐Irish Examiner An extraordinary piece of writing Sunday Independent on Microdisney.

‘Stunning Drama… Powerhouse cast. A terrific writer’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sky Falls

‘Wildly ambitious’ The Irish Times on Gravity (A Love Story)

‘Neil Flynn’s Clever and Elegant Net Play plumbs the depths of the ocean’ Irish Independent on Talk

To Me. Absorbing…A Psychological Striptease Sunday Independent on The Day Of The Zebra

“A talent to be watched’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐British Theatre Guide