Gavin Kostick is a playwright, dramaturge at the LIR academy, Dublin,[1] and literary manager of Fishamble: The New Play Company.
[3] Gavin Kostick's dramatic works include The Ash Fire (1992), winner of the Stewart Parker Trust Award,[4][5][6] which is based loosely on the experiences of his grandfather who entered Ireland after he 'jumped ship in the wrong port'.
[7] Kostick's other plays include Jack Ketch’s Gallows Jig (1994),[8] The Flesh Addict (1996),[9] Doom Raider (2000),[10] The Asylum Ball (2000),[11] Contact (2002),[12] The Medusa (2003),[13] a new interpretation of Homer's Odyssey (2023),[14][15] Fight Night (2010),[16] Swing (2013),[17][18] At the Ford (2015),[19] Games People Play (2015),[20] winner of the Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards, Pocket Music[21] Gym Swim Party (2019),[22] and Invitation to a Journey (2016).
[23] After gathering oral histories from Belfast's Jewish community, Gavin Kostick wrote This is What we Sang (2009),[24] a play that was performed at the TriBeCa Synagogue (New York)[25] and featured at the 2011 American Conference of Irish Studies.
[26] Gavin Kostick was the librettist for Raymond Deane’s opera The Alma Fetish.