Jim Nolan (theatre director)

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Jim Nolan (born 1958) is an Irish playwright and theatre director. Born in Waterford, Nolan co-founded there the Red Kettle Theatre Company, launching the company with his play The Gods Are Angry Miss Kerr.{{Cite news |date=2007-11-23 |title=Tower Hotel Waterford Excellence Award goes to 'Sky Road' playwright Jim Nolan |publisher=The Munster Express |url=http://www.munster-express.ie/entertainment/theatre/tower-hotel-waterford-excellence-award-goes-to-%E2%80%98sky-road-playwright-jim-nolan/ |access-date=7 December 2011}} He also formerly served as its artistic director. He was writer-in-association with the Abbey Theatre in 2001 and is also a member of Aosdána.{{Cite web |title=Waterford Novelists and Playwrights |url=http://www.munsterlit.ie/Waterford%20novelists.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122051822/http://www.munsterlit.ie/Waterford%20novelists.html |archive-date=22 November 2018 |access-date=7 December 2011 |publisher=Munster Literature Centre}}

Nolan's plays include Blackwater Angel, Dear Kenny, Moonshine, Round and Round the Garden, The Black Pool, The Boathouse, The Guernica Hotel, The Road to Carne, Sky Road and Brighton. His play The Salvage Shop, was nominated for the Irish Times/ESB Theatre Award for Best New Play.{{Cite web |title=Jim Nolan |url=http://www.gallerypress.com/wprs/authors/m-to-n/jim-nolan/ |access-date=7 December 2011 |publisher=The Gallery Press}} In 2011 and 2012, he was theatre artist in residence at Garter Lane Arts Centre,{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} and (as of 2022) he was a board member of the centre.{{Cite web |date=28 September 2022 |title=Governance - Garter Lane |url=https://garterlane.ie/governance/ |website=GarterLane.ie}}

His daughter, Megan Nolan, is a journalist and author.{{Cite web |last=Brennan |first=Marjorie |date=October 24, 2022 |title=Book interview: Megan Nolan on discovering one of Waterford's best-known authors |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40990469.html |website=IrishExaminer.com}}