Michael West has written several plays in collaboration with Annie Ryan and The Corn Exchange includingMan Of Valour,Freefall(Best New Play at the Irish Theatre Awards and at the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild) and the world premiere adaptation of James Joyce'sDublinerspresented in association with the Dublin Theatre Festival 2012. Other work for The Corn Exchange includes EVERYDAY,Dublin By Lamplight,Foley, an adaptation ofLolita(in a co-production with the Abbey) andThe Seagullwhich will premiere at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2016. He has translated or adapted many texts, among themThe Marriage of Figarofor the Abbey; a version ofDeath and the Ploughmanby the Bohemian 14th century writer Johannes Von Saaz for Christian Schiaretti of the TNP in Lyon and produced by SITI company and directed by Anne Bogart in the USA; and plays by Molière, Marivaux, Calderón and the contemporary French poet, Jean-Pierre Siméon. His latest translation,Forever Yours, Mary-Louby Michel Tremblay premiered at the Theatre Royal in Bath in March 2016. He has written two plays for younger audiences,Jack Fell DownandForest Man, and in 2014 the Abbey Theatre presented a world premiere of his most recent playConservatory. For the last year he has been writer-in-residence at University College Cork.