Colin Broderick

Colin Broderick

Colin Broderick is a Northern Irish author/filmmaker living in Manhattan.

Biography

Broderick was born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and moved to New York City in the 1990s. He is quoted as saying that: "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."

Career

Author

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. A feature-length documentary of the same name,Orangutan, detailing the authors life, is currently in production.

Broderick's follow-up memoir "That's That," detailing his childhood growing up in Northern Ireland was released 7 May 2013 published Broadway Books, Random House. Random House billed it as "The first book to paint a detailed depiction of Northern Ireland's Troubles"

Additionally Colin's work has been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Writer's Digest, and Rattapalax.

Plays and films

Colin’s play, Father Who, had a three week run at the Macalla Theatre Company in the Bronx. His second play Spudmunchers had a 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 shot/directed/starred in his first short movie "Smile", which he describes as a "poem of loneliness."

He also just optioned his first screenplay "The Star Farm". That movie is currently in production.

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

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