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 (Gate Theatre), The Thane of Ross in Macbeth (Tivoli), Digger in Tillsonburg (Focus, Canadian Stage Company, Toronto); The Court Clerk in Caoineadh Airt ui Laoghaire and The Medicine Man in Cuairt an Mhean Oiche, both by Tom MacIntyre (Abbey Theatre); Troilus in Troilus and Cressida and Adonis in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, (Theatreworks); Austin in True West (Andrews Lane Studio); George in Tennessee Williams’ Garden District, Art in Precious Sons by George Furth and Dave in Death of A Dog and The Young Man in Talk to Me Like the Rain (Focus).

Film and TV include: The Clinic (RTÉ), The Tudors (CBC / Showtime), Savage (SP Films), The Running Mate (Treasure Films), King Arthur (Disney), Veronica Guerin (Bruckheimer Films), Michael Collins (Warner Bros), Ballyseedy (RTE), Tom Carson in RTE’s Fair City and Maurice in Gleann Ceo for TG4.