Patrick Lonergan is a graduate of University College Dublin and National University of Ireland, Galway. He writes about theatre for many publications including The Irish Times and Irish Theatre Magazine, and is academic director of the Synge Summer School. He is a board member of Irish Theatre Magazine, and a theatre evaluator for the Irish Arts Council.

He is active in many scholarly organisations, acting as Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), and an executive member of the Irish Society for Theatre Research and the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project.

His first book Theatre and Globalization won the Theatre Book Prize in 2009, and one of the ESSE Book Awards in 2010. He has lectured on Irish literature in many countries, including Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, the U.S. and the UK. Most recently he was one of the keynote speakers at the 2010 IASIL conference

Books
Patrick Lonergan, The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh. London: Methuen, 2012. Forthcoming.

Patrick Lonergan, Theatre and Globalization – Irish Drama and the Celtic Tiger Era (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; reprinted in paperback in 2010).

Patrick Lonergan (editor), Synge and His Influences – Centenary Essays from the Synge Summer School. Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2010.

Nicholas Grene and Patrick Lonergan (editors), Interactions – the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1957-2007 (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2008).

Patrick Lonergan (ed). The Methuen Book of Modern Irish Drama. (London: Methuen, 2008).

Globalization and literature (esp. drama), modern drama, Anglo-Irish literature and drama, Shakespeare and Ireland. J.M. Synge.