Colin Teevan is an Irish playwright, radio dramatist, translator and academic. Teevan has premiered works in the National Theatres of Ireland, Scotland and the Royal National Theatre in London, He has been a regular collaborator of directors Hideki Noda, Sir Peter Hall, and actors Greg Hicks, Clare Higgins and Kathryn Hunter. He co-founded the writers' movement The Monsterists and was controversial script doctor on Peter Hall's production of John Barton's Tantalus. He has been a fellow of Queens University Belfast, University of East Anglia and Durham University and he is currently Professor of Playwriting and Screenwriting at Birkbeck, University of London and an Associate Artist of West Yorkshire Playhouse. All his stage work is published by Oberon Books. 

January 1st, 1968 in Dublin (Age 56)