Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney are an award-winning creative partnership. Their debut play, My Left Nut, was developed into a BBC Three miniseries and won Royal Television Society regional awards for Best Drama and Best Writing; their second play, The Alternative, was selected as Fishamble’s A Play for Ireland and won two Irish Times Theatre Awards. Their third play, The Border Game, opened the Belfast International Arts Festival 2021 and will tour Ireland in Autumn 2022. Michael and Oisín have written for BBC Radio Ulster and Radio Four, were recipients of an Abbey Theatre Commemoration Bursary, members of the Irish Theatre Institute's Virtual Attic, and Bewley’s Cafe Theatre New Writing Initiative. You can read more about them here: www.michaelandoisin.com
Play title: The Union of Craic
They are delighted to have been selected for the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship and will be developing a play that explores nationalism through The Union of Craic, a new political entity joining Scotland with the island of Ireland. With the constitutional makeup of the British Isles facing uncertainty and nationalist ideals on the rise around the world, they want to write a play that responds to urgent questions of independence and nationalism in biting comedic satire.