Tom Murphy (1) Tom Murphy was born in Tuam, Co. Galway in 1935. He has written over twenty-five plays and has received numerous awards and nominations, including an Irish Academy of letters award, two Harveys Irish Theatre Awards and an Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award. A major retrospective of his work was presented at the Abbey Theatre in 2001. His work has been translated and performed in a number of European languages. Tom Murphy is a member of Aosdána and a patron of the Irish Theatre Institute. He lives in Dublin. PLAYWRITING CREDITS A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant A Thief of a Christmas A Whistle in the Dark Alice Trilogy Bailegangaire Conversations on a Homecoming Famine On the Inside On the Outside The Blue Macushla The Gigli Concert The House The J. Arthur Maginnis Story The Morning After Optimism The Orphans The Patriot Game The Sanctuary Lamp The Wake The White House Too Late For Logic Adaptations/Translations Epitaph Under Ether She Stoops to Conquer She Stoops to Folly The Cherry Orchard The Drunkard The Informer The Last Days Of a Reluctant Tyrant The Vicar of Wakefield CREDITS AS DIRECTOR PLAY TITLE AUTHOR Epitaph Under Ether Tom Murphy (1) A compilation from the work of J.M. Synge. On the Inside Tom Murphy (1) On the Outside Tom Murphy (1), Noel O'Donoghue The Informer Tom Murphy (1) Adapted from the original novel by Liam O'Flaherty.