Tuesday 4th May
All seats €25
Cast
Kevin Anderson | Andy
Kevin Anderson made his Off-Broadway debut in Steppenwolf's Orphans and has been a member of the ensemble since 1984. Kevin's subsequent returns to the stage have been as varying as they are lauded, from the world premiere of Sunset Boulevard in London to Death of a Salesman on Broadway (for which he was nominated for a Tony Award) to a heartbreaking turn in I Never Sang For My Father at Steppenwolf.
John Earl Jelks | Red
John Earl Jelks was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as “Sterling” in August Wilson’s Radio Golf, which he also toured to the McCarter, Goodman, Center Stage, Seattle Rep., Mark Taper, and Yale Repertory theaters. Jelks also appeared with Felicia Rashad on Broadway in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean as “Citizen” (after runs at the Goodman, Huntington, and Mark Taper theaters, where he won an NAACP Theater Award and an L.A. Ovation Award.) In 2008, Jelks won an AUDELCO Award for his work in the off-Broadway revival of The First Breeze of Summer.
Karl Harpur | Heywood
Karl studied at the Gaiety School of Acting and the Margie Haber Studio in Los Angeles. Theatre Credits include: Phildenstern in MACBECKS (Olympia and Cork Opera House) Superfluous, Packie Bonnerus and Keano in I, KEANO (Olympia & National Tour), Billy in EEJIT OF LOVE (Dublin Fringe Festival), Elvis O’Toole in ALADDIN (Gaeity), Sean in THE HAPENNY BRIDGE (Point Theatre), Dandini in CINDERELLA, Jack in JACK AND THE BEANSTALK and Sammy in SLEEPING BEAUTY (Anthem Productions).
Mitchell Mullen | Stammas
Theatre includes: August: Osage County (National Theatre), Speed-the-Plow (Theatre Royal Winchester), Sir Peter Hall’s As You Like It (West End and US National Tour), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (West End and US National Tour), The Canterville Ghost (Southwark Playhouse), Jason Robert Browne’s Parade (Edinburgh Festival), LAByrinth Theatre Company’s Scotch and Water (Hen and Chickens) and the Landor Theatre’s production of Muscles!
Mark Schrier | Ernie
Mark began his performing career working worldwide as a comic variety performer on 5 continents in 30 countries.
Favorite theatrical roles include the title role in Clive Barkers "Crazyface" at Sacred Fools Theatre in LA, Napoleon Bonaparte in the Robey Theatre's "For the Love of Freedom" in LA, Billy Bibbit in "Cuckoos Nest" Stella Adler Theatre,LA, Phillip in “Orphans”, Vanguard, LA Puck in "Midsummer's Night Dream",Waterloo Bridge, NYC, and Uwe Sievers in "The Physicist" at Soho Rep, NYC.
Joe Hanley | Bogs
Joe’s theatre work includes The Playboy of the Western World By Roddy Doyle and Bisi Adigun at the Abbey Theatre, Juno and The Paycock (Art NI and Cork Opera House, National Tour) , Over and Out (Lane Productions) , Homeland by Paul Mercier (Abbey Theatre). Other Theatre credits include The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Town Hall Theatre, Galway). Rough Magic’s Take me Away (Dublin, Edinburgh, Germany, London) which won the 2005 Stewart Parker Award and an Edinburgh Fringe First,
Shashi Rami | Pete
Shashi’s theatre work includes, Hamlet, King Lear (Second Age), A Woman of No Importance (The Abbey Theatre). Julius Caesar, The Duchess Of Malfi, The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, Coriolanus, (Loose Cannon). Key West, The Massacre At Paris, (Bedrock). Judas Of The Gallarus,(The Peacock). She’s A Whore, (Project Theatre). Car Show (Cornexchange), Ladies & Gents, Adrenalin, (Semper Fi) . His television credits include The Galway Races (TnG), Camera Café (R.T.E). Incredible Stories (Disney). The Bill, (ITV).
Patrick Joseph Byrnes | Mayor Stone
Theatre: Lars in Festen (The Gate Theatre),Louis in A View From The Bridge (The Gate Theatre),Jacques in As You Like It (The Helix),Francois in Very Heaven (The Focus),# 12 in Twelve Angry Men (Andrews Lane),Lennie in Of Mice and Men (The New Theatre). Other Dublin Productions: Fool For Love, Sweet Bird of Youth, All's Well That Ends Well, One Flew The Cuckoo's Nest, Mysteries 2000 and Cockroach Poetry.New York: Aspersions Cast,Dialectic of Enlightenment,Act and The Actor and Realism in Our Time, all for Daryl
Hugh O' Donnell | Buddy
Hugh took a sabbatical from his acting career to concentrate on writing. His novel 11 Emerald Street achieved critical acclaim and hit the bestseller list. Past theatre credits include a six month run of One For The Road by Willie Russell at the Eblana Theatre, his one-man show Saints and Sinners that achieved critical acclaim at both the Dublin and Edinburgh Theatre Festivals, Laska in Leonardo’s Last Supper with the late Anna Manahan in Andrews lane and the narrator in The Good Doctor also at Andrews lane Theatre.
Ben Mulhern | Rooster
Ben is a native of Roscommon. His Theatre work includes Visions, Little Green Men, Antigone Intractive, Troilus & Cressida and On Rafterys Hill. Most recently Ben has appeared with Bluepatch productions as Raphael in Portia Coughlan. The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe in Raven Lunatics with The Dublin Shakespeare Society.
Both of which will be touring later this year.
Daniel Reardon | Brooksie
Daniel's theatre credits include Philadelphia Here I Come! (Gaiety Theatre), Roberto Zucco (Bedrock), The Ha'penny Bridge (Point Theatre), One Whose Veins Ran Lightning (New Theatre), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Gaiety/Olympia), Sauce For The Goose (Gaiety/Cork Opera House), John Bull’s Other Island (Gaiety), The Mask of Moriarty (Gate), Forever Young (Project), Murder in the Cathedral (Christchurch) and Romeo and Juliet (Hong Kong).
Charlie Hughes | Entwhistle
Charlie is a graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting.
Theatre credits include: The Commandant in ‘Who By Fire’ (Gibralter and 2 National Tours), Judas in ‘ Iscariot’ (U.S.A tour, winner of a distinction at Moldovian International Theatre Festival. 2 National Tours), Billy in ‘The Corner Boys’ (National tour). Heir Gabon/ Headmaster in ‘Spring Awakenings’ (National Tour).
Hope Brown | Chester
Hope Brown studied the Stanislavski Method at the Focus Theatre, Dublin under the late Deirdre O'Connell. Since then, he has performed in over forty plays and films in the U.S. and Europe, and worked regionally in the U.S with such noted directors Richard Corley and Jared Sakrin. Theatre roles include The Undertaking (Stadsschouwburg National Theatre, Holland), Fabulation or the Re-education of Undine and The Story (The Black Theatre Troup, Arizona),
Pierce Kavanagh | Guard / Ensemble
Pierce has been involved in theatre for almost twenty years and in that time he has been an Actor, Director, Stage Manager, Production Manager, Lighting Designer and Producer. Recent acting credits include Lane and Merriman in The Importance of Being Earnest, National Tour with City Theatre Dublin; Whit in Of Mice and Men, Liberty Hall Theatre with Troppo Theatre Co; Conor in Aisling’s Diary, Campbell Ryan Film Productions for RTE;
Ciaran O' Brien | Tommy
FILM / TV includes (most recently): THE TUDORS, DETAINED, FAIR CITY, BLOOM, PRINCE WILLIAM, FEAR / INCREDIBLE STUDIO STORIES, CUSTER’S LAST STAND UP, DAVID COOPPERFIELD, THE BOY FROM MERCURY. THEATRE credits include: PHILADELPHIA HERE I COME! (Gaiety Theatre), OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME (Livin’ Dred), THIS IS OUR YOUTH (Bedrock), THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Abbey Theatre), PETER PAN
Malachy McKenna | Hadley
A graduate of University College Galway, Malachy McKenna trained as an actor under Deirdre O’Connell at the Focus Stanislavski Studio, Dublin, where his play, Tillsonburg won the 2000 Stewart Parker Trust Literary Award. Malachy has completed the screenplay of Tillsonburg for Subotica Entertainment.
Stage experience includes: Obsequius IKeano (Olympia & Tour), LMNOP Macbecks (Olympia), The Samurai in Rashomon (Storytellers), Mick Tracey in Stolen Child (Calypso), Bob Cratchit and Marley’s Ghost in A Christmas Carol
Shane Cullen | Rico
Shane completed his Masters in Drama and Theatre Studies at N.U.I Galway and continued his studies at the Gaiety School of Acting.
Shane’s previous theatre credits include Hamlet in Vendettas The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged, which was performed at Electric Picnic and Whiplash’s War of the Roses 3:Back in Black seen at last years Dublin Fringe Festival.
