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Vincent Woods Author & Editor

Vincent Woods was born in Co. Leitrim in 1960. His plays include At The Black Pig's Dyke (Druid Thea tre Company, Druid Lane Theatre, Galway, 1992); Song of the Yellow Bluern (Druid Theatre Company, Dr uid Lane Theatre, 1994), and On the Way Out (Skehana Theatre Company, Glens Centre, Manorhamilton, 2 002). His work has been staged in Ireland, the U.S., England, Canada and Australia and has been tran slated into French, German and Irish. He worked as a journalist and broadcaster before becoming a fu ll-time writer. He adapted Ignazio Silone's novel Fontamara for stage and has written a version of A lfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. Two plays for children are The Brown Man and The Donkey Prince. Radio plays a re The Leitrim Hotel and The Gospels of Aughuinore.