Writing
Commissioned by Daryl Hannah to write her screenplay Soul Cages
Commissioned to write the screenplay Savage for Emmy Award winner Valerie Red Horse
Developing the original screenplay Oliver Twisted with director Damien O’Donnell
Commissioned by Paddy Breathnach to write the screenplays
Swordland and Cancer Cowboy
Commissioned by Richie Smith to co-write the screenplay Slice
Invited to the Moonstone Screenwriters Lab with the original screenplays
The Dancehall Bitch and The War Room
Commissioned to write over one hundred episodes of Ireland’s flagship television drama
Fair City
Commissioned to write, with Mark O’Rowe, the screenplay Sisk, which is going into production in Autumn 2009, produced by Alan Moloney
Commissioned to write for the American/UK pilot comedy show Days Like This
Contracted by RTE Radio to air the original radio play Together Again
Directing
Directed and wrote the original feature film Charlie Casanova
Awarded The Gregory Peck Scholarship to UCD Film School
Directed several stage productions including Ken Harmon’s debut Speed Metal Farmers
Invited to The Moonstone Filmmakers Lab to direct scenes from The Dancehall Bitch
Teaching
Member of the Faculty and Acting and Screenwriting Tutor at The Irish Film Academy, plus visiting lecturer to DIT, NUI, and the John Huston Film School, Galway
Acting
Central roles in several features including The Suicide Club alongside Jonathan Pryce and Paul Bettany, Dangerous Curves alongside David Carradine, Moving Target alongside
Don Wilson, plus David Caffrey’s Bolt, and most recently played
Charlie in Paul Frasers’ My Brothers
Awards
Awarded the RKO Pictures Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Prize in Cannes and presented with the award at the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences in Hollywood
Selected for The Tribeca Film Festival’s All Access Program
Awarded a First Class Honours Master of Arts Degree in Screenwriting from IADT Dublin
Awarded the Tiernan McBride International Screenwriting Award
Biography
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