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Richard
His writing has been published in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The American Prospect and on Time magazine's web site. He was also a longtime contributor to New York Press. His first play, Untangling Ava, won the inaugural A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival at Washington University in St. Louis. The play was produced in the Drama Studio at that university in May, 1989. In 1999, Byrne was awarded a Pew Fellowship in International Reporting (now known as the International Reporting Project Fellowship) to study media in postwar Bosnia. He has also written liner notes for albums by R.E.M. and Uncle Tupelo. He is now completing a full-length play about Edward Kelley and his stepdaughter, Elizabeth Jane Weston. He has also finished a novel, Luckyboys, about Americans in Prague. Byrne received
his B.A. in English from the University of Maryland at Baltimore Country
in 1986. He has an M.F.A. in poetry and playwriting from Washington University
in St. Louis. |