Ronan Noone Ronan Noone was born in Galway, Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1994. He holds degrees from the University of Galway (B.A. in Mathematics, Certificate in Journalism) and Boston University (M.A. in Playwriting), where he studied with Nobel-Prize winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott. Noone’s play, “The Lepers of Baile Baiste” won the National Playwriting Award at the American College Theatre Festival and was produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.. “The Lepers of Baile Baiste” became a Nichols Semifinalist had its professional premiere in Boston with Sugan Theatre Company, where it went on to win the Independent Reviewers of New England best play award. It has also played in Chicago, Los Angeles (an LA Times Critic’s Pick) and New York. It is published by Samuel French Inc. Ronan’s second play “The Blowin’ of Baile Gall” opened at Boston Playwrights Theatre and had its off- Broadway debut (with Gabriel Byrne as producer) at the Irish Arts Center in New York in 2005. The play had already been previously nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the Steinberg New Play Award and won the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script. It is published by Dramatist’s Play Service Inc. Ronan was chosen by Boston Magazine as the Best Young Playwright for 2003, and in July of 2003, he was commissioned as a playwriting fellow by the Huntington Theatre Company, under the Stanford Calderwood Fund for New American Plays. Lately, he has moved away from the Irish tradition and his plays have taken on an American perspective. Recent plays include the monologue “The Atheist,” which opened with Campbell Scott at the Calderwood Pavilion in Boston in the September 2007, having previously run at Center Stage in New York in 2006 with Chris Pine and in
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