Hugh Leonard(1926-2009)

Won Broadway's 1978 Tony Award as author of Best Play winner "Da." He was also twice nominated as author of a Best Play nominee: in 1974 for "The Au Pair Man" and in 1981 for "A Life."

Ireland is my subject matter, but only to the degree in which I can use it as a microcosm; this involves choosing themes which are free of Catholicism and politics, both of which I detest and which deprive one's work of applicability outside Ireland.