Little John Nee is a playwright, performer and musician based in the west of Ireland; he received an Irish Times Theatre Sound Design Award for Sparkplug and a Prix  Italia Special Mention Award for the RTE radio version. Other plays include The Derry Boat, Johnny Patterson The Singing Irish Clown, Radio Rosario and Tea Dance. He is currently working on a series of radio pieces The Jumpin’ Inn and preparing for a tour of Donegal with Tilt of the Sky for Earagail Arts Festival. In 2016 he was elected to Aosdána, the state organisation that honours artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland.