Conor was born in Dublin in 1971. He attended University College Dublin where he began to write and direct. Apart from GFTNC (Old Vic London, West End & Broadway) his work for the theatre includes The Weir (Royal Court London, West End & Broadway), The Seafarer (National Theatre London & Broadway), Shining City (Royal Court London & Broadway), The Night Alive (Donmar Warehouse London, Atlantic Theatre NYC), Port Authority (West End, Atlantic Theatre NYC), St Nicholas (Bush Theatre, London, Primary Stages NYC) and This Lime Tree Bower (Bush Theatre London, Primary Stages NYC). His recent West End adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya was filmed for the BBC and broadcast by PBS in the United States. Awards for his work include the Laurence Olivier Award, five Tony Award nominations, The Evening Standard Award, London Critics’ Circle Award, Meyer-Whitworth Award, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, New York Outer Critics Circle Award, The George Devine Award, four Irish Film and Television Academy Best Screenplay Awards and the South Bank Show Sky Arts Theatre Award.