Writing for TV

Bryan Delaney is the 2021 winner of Harvard Extension School's James E. Conway Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing. He is a playwright and screenwriter from Dublin, Ireland, where from 2010 to 2014 he ran the New Playwrights Programme at The Abbey Theatre, Ireland's national theater. His television show Bailbirds is currently in development with ID8 Multimedia. He is the co-screenwriter and a producer of the narrative feature film, The Sounding, directed by Catherine Eaton, starring Frankie Faison (The Wire) and Harris Yulin (Ozark). The film won two dozen awards on the festival circuit including four festival grand prizes; it was also nominated for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Voice Awards for activism and advocacy. His TV pilot Jordan (co-written with Daniel Dowling) was one of the selected scripts in the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Rocliffe TV Drama Competition in the UK and was chosen for the BAFTA Forum List. Delaney's award-winning stage plays include The Seedbed, The Onion Game, The Cobbler, Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer, The Bohemians, and Stretching Larry. Delaney was awarded two playwright's bursaries from The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, two travel awards, and an artist's bursary from The Arts Council of Ireland. He was awarded the Samuel Beckett Centenary International Writer's Residency at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, France. Delaney has taught playwriting and screenwriting at the University of Pennsylvania and on the Fordham University/Primary Stages MFA in playwriting. He is a regular guest of the New Play Festival at the University of Iowa where he works as a dramaturg and mentor with the playwrights on the MFA in playwriting. He is currently Playwright in Residence at Irish Classical Theatre Company in Buffalo, New York.