The Executive Game (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781910728499)

Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland with a career that spans over two decades Pearse Elliott is a recognised award-winning playwright and screenplay writer. He created and wrote the Number 1 hit TV series Pulling Moves (BBCNI 2004) and was the writer behind one of the most successful independent Irish Films to date Man About Dog (2004) which subsequently became a Number 1 Box Office hit. Pearse was also the writer and director behind the critically acclaimed film The Mighty Celt (2005) for which former X-Files star Gillian Anderson went on to win Best International Actress for her part as Kate at the IFTAs (Irish Film & TV Awards) in the same year. The commercial success of Irish horror film Shrooms in 2007 cemented Pearse's growing reputation as a much sought-after screenplay writer. His stage play Man In The Moon (2013) went on to show across the UK and Ireland as well as a four week run at the Irish Theatre Festival in New York (2014). Man In The Moon was also nominated for best play, best director and best actor at the Origin's First Irish Theatre Festival (2014). Pearse's play The Holy Holy Bus (2014) sold out Belfast's Waterfront Hall, Lyric Theatre and the Grand Opera House (2016) before returning to The Lyric (2017). It was also a winner of the Audience Award at The Belfast Festival the year it opened and has been commissioned as a screenplay by BFI. Pearse was the winner of the prestigious BBC First Bite Young Playwrights competition in 1996, received an Aisling Award for Outstanding Contribution in Arts and Culture in 2005, was nominated for a Radio Sony award (1996) and recognised as a Top 40 Under 40 Artist in 2008. To date Pearse has written over 20 critically acclaimed stage plays and has been nominated over 15 times at the Irish Film and Television Awards for his work. Man In The Moon will show at The Mac theatre, Belfast in May 2018 and Pearse's latest play The Sword And The Sand premieres at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast also in May 2018. Pearse's debut fiction novel The Executive Game (released April 2018), published by Excalibur Press, is set in Cuba and follows the story of Irish smuggler O'Neill in what is a bloody and violent visit to Havana.