{"id":900,"date":"2018-12-18T11:40:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=900"},"modified":"2021-01-12T14:48:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:48:52","slug":"leo-mcgann","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/profile\/leo-mcgann\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo McGann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newplayexchange.org\/users\/20272\/leo-mcgann\">LEO MCGANN<\/a> is a playwright from Belfast. He began writing with Tinderbox Theatre Company through their Fireworks Young Writers group, and was also part of the Royal Court&#8217;s Young Writers Programme and Studio Group in London. Awards include National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Excellence Award in 2016, and the Kennedy Center&#8217;s Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award in 2018. He was a finalist for the 2017-2018 Alliance\/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award and a nominee for the Rolex Mentor and Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Arts Initiative. His play <em>The Honey Trap<\/em> was produced as a workshop production at Boston Playwrights&#8217; Theatre in 2017. He co-wrote TV\/web drama Backstage Story for BBC, where he has also worked as an Assistant Producer. He has a BA in Modern History from Oxford and an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. He is the recipient of a 2017-2018 BAFTA Los Angeles Scholarship. He has taught Creative Writing at Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7308,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/900\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/playwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}