Colin Broderick
Colin Broderick is a Northern Irish author/filmmaker living in Manhattan. His first memoir Orangutan, Random House, details the first twenty years he spent living in New York City, drinking, working construction and attempting to formulate his life as a writer.
Orangutan is available in paperback in good bookstores everywhere. It is also available at www.audible.com
A feature-length documentary of the same name,Orangutan, detailing the authors life, is currently in production.
Broderick who is originally from County Tyrone Northern Ireland has lived in New York City for over twenty years. “So many of the black sheep of the world end up here. That’s part of what makes it the stimulating vibrant melting pot that it is. We finally have somewhere we belong.”
Broderick's follow-up memoir "That's That," detailing his childhood growing up in Northern Ireland is due for release May 7, 2013 published Broadway Books, Random House.
Random House are billing it as "The first book to paint a detailed depiction of Northern Ireland's Troubles"
Plays and films
- Colin’s play, Father Who, had a successful three week run at the Macalla Theatre Company in the Bronx.
His second play Spudmunchers had a successful run in New York in 2012 and starred Irish boxer John Duddy in his first major acting role since retiring from professional boxing in 2011.
Broderick has just finished shooting/directing/starring in his first short movie "Smile". He describes it as a "poem of loneliness."
He also just optioned his first screenplay "The Starfarm". That movie is currently in production.
- Colin's work has been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Writer's Digest, and Rattapalax.
Sources
- Building in a Vacuum -- New York Times
- The Sky Really Is Falling -- New York Times
- He has also written for the Irish Voice.
References
External links
- Links on Google.com
- Recent Sales
- Dystel Client List
- Building in a Vacuum -- New York Times
- The Sky Really Is Falling -- New York Times
- Dystel Newsletter #41