Leo McGann

The Honey Trap

Leo McGann is a Belfast-born playwright. He began writing with Tinderbox Theatre Company who staged his short play Friends Like These at the Grand Opera House in Belfast as part of their Fireworks Programme in 2009.  After a move to London, he was a part of the Young Writers Programme and the Studio Group at the Royal Court, and worked in TV and Radio production at the BBC. Before beginning his MFA studies in Playwriting at Boston University in 2014, he earned a Bachelor Degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford. An earlier draft of The Honey Trap won the National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Excellence Award at the 48th Annual Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Washington DC.