Patrick McDonnell

Patrick's background is that he comes from a family of established playwrights (my grandfather had his play the "Vigil" produced by The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland in 1961 (that gave Irish actor Cyril Cusack his first big theatre acting role) and screen and television writers. Patrick has been writing screenplays and fine tuning my craft now for over thirty years. Patrick has written eight new screenplays from 2012-2016 "Being Frank" and "*Conflict Resolution" (two for television) and "*Embroiled In A Lie"; "*Untouchable";"*Two Doves That Cry"; "*Abbeyleaks;"*The Archangels" and "The Divide - The Feature Film" (six for cinema). In this period he also wrote a thirty minute fiction (in twenty-four parts) for television entitled "Hideaway Hostel" plus a thirty minute radio play entitled "Travis". He is a regular contributor to one of the largest Irish-American magazines who published my articles to over four million readers in the United States of America."The Divide" a play he wrote in 2015 and produced and directed was successfully staged at The Sean O'Casey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland in March, 2016. His stage play "The Divide", his first fiction novel "Foxcatcher" and his second non-fiction novel "The Joy of Unrequited Love", "Poetry - The Joy of Unrequited Love" as is his second play written in 2017 entitled "You're a c*** (The merry-go-round of misery)" are all published on Amazon Books.com. *Denotes based on true stories.