Ashleigh Dorrell joins The 24 Hour Plays Dublin in aid of Dublin Youth Theatre supported by BNP Paribas Real Estate as an actor on Sunday January 28th 2018 in The Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Ashleigh’s theatre credits include Lydia Languish in ’The Rivals’, Sarah Walters in ‘Animalia’, Anne Brontë and Cathey Earnsahw in Polly Teale’s ‘Brontë’, […]
Wesley Doyle is a 26 year old actor from Ballymun, Dublin. He has been involved in performing since the age of 12. He is also a a big practitioner of martial arts as a hobby. Since 15 years old he has been lucky enough to play the role of Doug Ferguson in RTE’s soap drama […]
Caoimhe O’Malley is an actor from Dublin and graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting Full Time Acting Course in June 2011, and was awarded the Gaiety School Theatre Bursary in 2010. Caoimhe most recently appeared in the feature film The Randomer written by Gerry Stembridge, which premiered in the Galway Film Fleadh in 2016. Onstage she recently […]
Noni Stapleton is a playwright and actor. Her one woman show Charolais won The Stewart Parker Award, The Little Gem Award, and was a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist. Other plays include One For Sorrow and Two For A Girl (Jayne Snow Award nominee for “Innovation and Bravery in Theatre”). Noni trained at The Gaiety […]
Since graduating the Gaiety School Of Acting in 2011, Tiernan Kearns’s stage appearances include HOW TO BE ANGRY (Nominated for Best Ensemble & First Fortnight, Fringe 2017). I WAS AND EMPEROR (5 stars). THE LAST CRUSADER (….’a scene stealing cameo from Kearns’ – Irish Times). THE CARVED SOUL (Nominated for Best Production, Fringe 2014). Tiernan […]
Next up in our actor profiles is Margaret Mc Auliffe, an actor, and former Irish Dancer. Margaret’s previous stage credits include; The Humours of Bandon (Dublin Fringe ’16, Fishamble nationwide tour and Edinburgh Fringe ‘17), Anna Karenina (Abbey Theatre), My English Tongue My Irish Heart (Greenshoot Productions for Belfast’s Waterfront Theatre and national tour incl Manchester and London), Jezebel (Rough Magic national tour incl Paris […]
If you’re a similar age to myself even seeing a picture of Rose Henderson will bring a smile to your face as memories of Saturday morning hysteria at her antics on Pajo’s Junkbox come flooding back. No? Well how about this: Rose Henderson played Sister Assumpta in Father Ted, and Biggest Fan in the Daniel O’Donnell […]
Clare Monnelly is our first actor to go under the #24HrDub microscope (have we ever had a microscope as a prop? There’s an idea!) Clare is an actor and writer who trained at the Gaiety School of Acting. She has worked extensively in theatre with Red Bear Productions, Verdant, the Gate and Druid, and was nominated […]
It was a long time until dinner and a long time since lunch when we caught up with Marcus Lamb. 2016 alone saw him playing such iconic roles as Patrick Pearse in RTÉ’s Rebellion and then Christopher Roulston in Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme in The Abbey Theatre so he had a […]
“If my my granny were still around, she’d probably describe me as ‘a grand young one. Although she’s getting on a bit now. And she doesn’t go to Mass as often as she should. Now stop asking questions and go and make me a nice mug of Complan. It’s nearly time for the Angelus.” This […]