It took John Patrick Shanley four decades to fully embrace his Irish identity. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter grew up in the Bronx, and he spent the first chunk of his professional career in a kind of personal denial. Until age 40, Shanley worked hard to avoid any nod to his pure Irish genealogy in his creative work. He wrote plays and films such as “Italian American Reconciliation”
‘Outside Mullingar’ is essence of Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company
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