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Next up: I will be featuring in the short films Dark & Stormy and Belfast Caliber 9.

In July, I took part in the Black Box Academy's Stand Up Comedy workshops, delivered by Graeme Watson.

Throughout the month of April, I took part in an ongoing workshop introducing the discipline of clowning, delivered by Amadan Theatre company.

𝕻ilot season is the early months of the year, when a lot of production companies in Hollywood are creating new TV shows in the hope that th...

Film: Jackalope [2017]

This is the film Jackalope I made last year with the always brilliant Frontier Pictures . It's a skin-crawling comedy horror, about a e...
The West Wing's powerhouse ensemble cast elevated the brilliant writing

Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing was a monumental achievement in 21st century television, showing that the medium could be as ambitious as c...
Theatre is no longer the writer's medium

𝔗 heatre has evolved away from the writer. This is a stark statement, but increasingly proving itself to be true. Where once the writer was...
The Fallacy of Britpop's 'Big Four' Revisionism.

Britpop was a glorious era for British and Irish music, when bands from almost every major city in the country were generating enough ground...
Playboy of the Western World, a play for the 21st century.

UPDATE 𝕺n May 10-12 I'll be performing in J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. The play is considered one of the great wor...