# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-friel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:15:25.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-friel"
name: "Brian Friel"
slug: "brian-friel"
description: "Brian Patrick Friel was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He had been considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists. He has been likened to an \"Irish Chekhov\" and described as \"the universally accented voice of Ireland\". His plays have been compared favourably to those of contemporaries such as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter and Tennessee Williams."
tagline: "Irish dramatist, author and theatre director (1929–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Friel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1929-01-09"
deathDate: "2015-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump