Gavin Kostick

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.^[27] In 2007, he won the Spirit of the Fringe Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival for his five-hour performance as Marlow from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.^[28]

He is the brother of the novelist and historian Conor Kostick.^[29]