Winner of the 1997 Stewart Parker and the George Devine Awards, he also won the Abbey Theatre Writer in Association Award for 2006 and two Critic's Awards and a Herald Archangel Award (2008). His plays, notably "Disco Pigs," "Bedbound," "Small Things," "Chatroom," "New Electric Ballroom" and "The Walworth Farce," have been translated into more than 20 languages.