Enda Walsh was born in , North Dublin in 1967. His father ran a furniture shop and his mother had been an actress. He is the second youngest of six. Notably during the recession in the 1980s when profits were low Walsh says that he was earning more money managing his own newspaper round enterprise than his father was bringing home from the shop. Life in the large family was full of incident and Enda has claimed that many of his plays find their origin in his relationships with his father, his mother and her friends, his three brothers and two sisters. Enda attended the where he was taught by both and. After studying Communications at and acting for the Dublin Youth Theatre Walsh travelled in Europe working as a film editor. On his return to Dublin he found few opportunities and so moved to Cork where he acted for theatre-in-education Graffiti Theatre. In 1996 Disco Pigs premiered at the Triskel Art Centre in Cork. This was the start of an international career writing for the stage and screen. Feeling himself to be 'too comfortable ' in Dublin, in 2005 Walsh and his wife, Jo Ellison, who is currently fashion editor of the , moved to London. They live in Kilburn with their daughter, Ada, and their cockapoo, Alvin. Starting with his experience at Corcadorca Walsh has never restricted himself to straight plays but has been happy to cross genres. Originally he would write music for one member of the ensemble and opportunities for dance for others. In the list of Walsh's works, there are musicals, and an opera. He also designs art installations as well as writing radio plays, such as Four Big Days in the Life of Dessie Banks for and The Monotonous Life of Little Miss P for the. Many of Walsh's plays including , Bedbound, Small Things, Chatroom, New Electric Ballroom, , Penelope and Misterman, have been translated into more than 20 languages and have had productions throughout Europe and in Australia, New Zealand and the US. The Last Hotel by Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy, Edinburgh International Festival 2015 His play premiered in 2014, produced by Landmark Productions and starring , and Mikel Murfi, and played in Dublin, Cork and London in the same year. In 2017, the production was revived at the and in early 2018 played at in Brooklyn, NY. In this revival Tadhg Murphy played 1, returned as 2 and played 3. Three members of the Gleeson family , and played the lead roles in produced by Landmark Productions at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, in their first theatrical production together. He adapted Roald Dahl's book for the theatre with its first production in April—May 2015. An opera entitled The Last Hotel, with music by , a co-production between Landmark Productions and Wide Open Opera, premiered in the in August 2015, played in the in September 2015 and started an international tour beginning in , London, in October 2015. He wrote a musical play with entitled , which premiered at the Off-Broadway from mid-November 2015 to mid-January 2016. The UK production opened at the Kings Cross Theatre in London on 25 October 2016, ending 22 January 2017. The has played host to a new departure for Walsh, involving art installation rooms with audio monologues, including Room 303 featuring the voice of Niall Buggy 2014 , A Girl's Bedroom featuring the voice of Charlie Murphy 2015 , Kitchen featuring the voice of Eileen Walsh 2016 and Bathroom featuring the voice of Paul Reid 2017. These installations have also been shown in the Kennedy Arts Centre, Washington May 2016 and the Irish Arts Center, New York May 2017. Walsh writes screenplays too, starting with his short film Not a Bad Christmas 1999. He adapted his play , for the screen and co-wrote the screenplay of which was directed by and starred as , the IRA hunger striker who starved himself to death in protest over British rule. He also adapted his play for a film directed by. He is currently under commission for three films, an adaptation of the children's story by Eva Ibbotson for Cuba Pictures , a film entitled Jules in the City based on the life and music of and an adaptation of 's book Into That Darkness, about the life of , the commandant of the and extermination camps. He speaks of his experience, in London, of extreme OCD. You know, to what, construct rules and sort of mechanisms within their living room but to what end? I like my plays to exist in an abstract, expressionistic world: the audience has to learn its rules and then connect with these characters who are, on the surface dreadful monsters'. Origin Theatre, New York, Washington and Dublin. World Tour 2009—2010, including New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto, Los Angeles, Miami, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, Wellington, London, Salford, Oxford. A production in the Olympia Theatre starred Brendan, Domhnall and Brian Gleeson in the lead roles. Premiered at 2014 at the Black Box Theatre, before moving to the Olympia Theatre, the Cork Opera House and the National Theatre London. Ann's Warehouse, New York January, 2016. Ann's Warehouse, New York May 2017. Premiered in February 2017 at Old Cork Prison. Premiered in July 2017 at the , followed by the October 2017. Best Fringe Production Award 1996,. Arts Council Playwrights Award 1996. Fringe First winner and Critic's Award 2001,. Fringe First winner and Herald Archangel Award 2008,. Best New Play Award 2008,. Best Supporting Actor Award for Mikel Murfi 2009,. Best New Play 2010,. Outstanding Solo Performance for 2012,. Best Musical Award 2012,. Outstanding Broadway Musical, Outstanding Book and Director of Musical 2011, , with 4 additional nominations. Distinguished Production of a Musical 2012, , with 2 additional nominations. Winner of 4 , including Outstanding Musical, with 2 additional nominations. Winner of 8 in 2012, including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical, with 3 additional nominations. Best Musical Theater Album 2013,. Winner of 2 in 2014, with 6 nominations including. Best Production and Sound Design 2014,. BALLYTURK by ENDA WALSH. Retrieved 2 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018. The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.