Conor McPherson

Girl from the North Country

Conor McPherson

• World premiere in the spring of 2017 at The Old Vic theatre in London• Includes 16 Dylan songs, including classics like: «Just Like A Woman, Like a Rolling Stone, I Want You, Ballad of a Thin Man, Slow Train Coming, Love Sick, and Forever Young»• He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame.• The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for «his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.»• In May 2012, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. • In 2016, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature «for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition».• Conor McPherson is hailed by the New York Times as “quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation” • His play The Weir won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for 1999.• One of the most popular Irish playwrights in the U.S.