28 September, 2022 //

Chris Morash is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing in Trinity College Dublin.  He is the author of A History of Irish Theatre 1601- 2000 (2002), Mapping Irish Theatre [with Shaun Richards], and The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre, co-edited with Nicholas Grene, with whom he shared an Irish Times Theatre Award nomination in 2019 for “an immeasurable contribution to academic writing on theatre in general and contemporary Irish theatre in particular”.  His latest book is Yeats on Theatre (2021), and Dublin: A Writer’s City is due next year.  He curated the Unseen Plays series for the Abbey Theatre in 2021, and is Chair of the Judging Panel for the Dublin Literary Award.