writer - actor - director
I am a playwright, performer & director and currently in residence as Theatre Artist at Cork Opera House and University College Cork.
2020: Currently directing In One Eye, Out The Other (Cccahoots, First Fortnight festival), acting in Blackwater Babble (Brokencrow, national tour) and writing WHALE, with a new play in development at the Abbey Theatre in April.
I recently appeared in This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing (Graffiti Theatre), The Big Chapel X (Asylum, Kilkenny Arts Festival), Evening Train (Everyman and Rosa Productions), The Lonesome West (Everyman) --- nominated Best Supporting Actor at the Irish Theatre Awards --- Bluetooth (Everyman) and in The School (RTE, 2017).
I've been a recipient of an Arts Council Theatre Bursary for play-writing, a mentor on the Young Playwrights Programme with Fighting Words Cork, and co-founder of Hammergrin. I wrote Stage Irish, which won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Playwrights Progress Award 2014 and co-wrote Hollander, nominated Best Production at the Irish Theatre Awards.
Recent directing includes In One Eye, Out the Other (Tadhg Hickey, Dublin Fringe Festival and First Fortnight Festival), WHALE (Cork Opera House, Midsummer Festival), Learning How to Leave the World (UCC MA show 2019) and Don't Smile Til Christmas (Activate 2018).
what I'm up to
In One Eye and Out the Other
January 2020
Director and dramaturg of Tadhg Hickey's debut solo show, for the Dublin Fringe Festival and a national tour 2020. Currently part of First Fortnight at Smock Alley
We're Falling on Your Face
Spring 2020
Development showing of a new project collaboration with Damian Punch .
Cork Opera House and UCC Theatre artist in residence 2019/20
2019 & 2020
Developing WHALE with theatre, dance and music artists through late 2019 and 2020