This year’s Dublin Fringe Festival includes several ACM clients.

POM BOYD and SARAH KINLEN are performing in SHAME on The Peacock stage @ The Abbey. Music composed by client SEAN MILLAR

http://www.fringefest.com/festival/whats-on/shame

CLODAGH MOONEY DUGGAN plays Suzie in the children’s show in SUZIE AND THE STORY SHREDDER at The Project Cube

http://www.fringefest.com/festival/whats-on/susie-and-the-story-shredder

LORCAN STRAIN is performing in SWEET SENSATIONS at Smock Alley Theatre

http://www.fringefest.com/festival/whats-on/sweet-sensations

Pom Boyd plays Rosie’s (Sarah Greene) mother, Annie in Element Pictures latest feature ‘ROSIE due to be released this October 2018.

Screenplay by Roddy Doyle and directed by Paddy Breathnoch.

Vikings 6 is now in production and will be playing again on History Channel.

Both Katherine Devlin and Katie McCann have just finished shooting and will be on our screens in 2019.

Michael Patrick is performing his one man show, MY LEFT NUT at The Edinburgh fringe, after and extremely successful national tour of Ireland and North of Ireland.

Edwin Mullane is performing his first outing of The Fetch Wilson written by Stewart Roche

My Left Nut

This year ANDREA KELLY will appear as mother in “Mother”.

ANDREA KELLY and SHAUNA HIGGINS both star in “Skint”

EDEL MURPHY stars in “Coco Dreams of Blue” also supported by RODRIGO TERNEVOY

Coco Dreams of Blue

Clodagh is a millennial. She doesn’t want to deal with her issues. On her way down from a tinder hook-up, she gets trapped in an elevator. Then things get weird. The elevator is stuck in a time loop. Clodagh is forced to relive her memories and face herself, literally.

Director Caoimhe Clancy (Debut)
Producer Caroline Kealy
Countries Canada & Ireland

SLANEY POWER is involved in “Backwater”

Backwater

Tommy has been trapped in the depths of rural Ireland for many years. His sense of duty keeps him here looking after his sickly father. After the death of his mother, his older sister Dylan returns home. They both have callings, both have to fulfill a promise to their mother, no matter how difficult it is.
Director Brendan McCallion
Producer Frank O’Malley
Country Ireland

This year, at the Galway Film Fleadh, Filmbase feature, THE COMEBACK will be closing the festival on Sunday 15th July

Both Robert Arkins and Clodagh Mooney Duggan are starring as father and daughter duo.

90’s superstar Matt Malone’s chart topping days are long behind him until he sensationally returns to the spotlight when a viral video goes wrong.

Both Clodagh Mooney Duggan and Conor Gormally will be appearing in A Day in May at The Olympia Theatre on 24th and 25th of June.  It is a drama documentary for stage based on struggles and the stories of those people leading up to The Marriage Referendum.

Ben Condron is the next client to join Fair City. He will be appearing on our screens very soon, playing Daragh Collins who is Nelly Conroy’s son.

Fiona Carty plays The Orange Girl in Verdant Productions and Do or Die Productions’ SHOUT – THE MOD MUSICAL. It tours Ireland in May and June.

Tour dates

Thursday 10^th & Friday 11^th May    Ramor Theatre, Virginia, Cavan  www.ramortheatre.com

Saturday 12^th May     Source Arts Centre, Thurles  www.thesourceartscentre.ie

Weds 16 May    Solstice Arts Centre, Navan     www.solsticeartscentre.com

Thurs 17 May   Draíocht, Blanchardstown   www.draiocht.ie

Fri 18 May   Hawks Well Theatre, Sligo        www.hawkswell.com

Sat 19 May    Iontas Castleblayney, Monaghan   www.iontascastleblayney.ie

Mon 21- Fri 25 May    Everyman Theatre , Cork     www.everymancork.com

Sat 26 May   Theatre Royal Waterford     www.theatreroyal.ie

Weds 30 May Moat Theatre, Naas       www.moattheatre.com

Thurs 31 May    Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire    www.paviliontheatre.ie

Fri 1 June   Town Hall Theatre, Galway   www.tht.ie

Sat 2 June    Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick      www.limetree.ie

Weds 6 & Thurs 7 June   Civic Theatre, Tallaght    www.civictheatre.ie

Fri 8 June   An Táin, Dundalk     www.antain.ie

Sat 9 June  Birr Theatre & Arts Centre    www.birrtheatre.com

Thurs 14 June  Mullingar Arts Centre  www.mullingarartscentre.ie

Fri 15 June  Ardhowen, Enniskillen     www.iontascastleblayney.ie

Sat 16 June  Glór, Ennis    www.glor.ie

on Tour May June 2018

Pilgrim runs from 23rd April until 5th May at Smock Alley with matinees on Saturday at 7.30

“A beautifully drawn portrait of Young Irish Manhood”  – Sunday Independent.

Rex Ryan rocks the stage with energy and fervour. He oozes talent.

Two episodes of Quantico 3 are being filmed here in Dublin. Glen Barry, Art Kearns and Rex Ryan are cast in the ‘Irish Episodes’.

They will be joining the lovely Priyanka Chopra and the rest of the cast.

Sucking Diesel is live and available NOW on YouTube for a limited only:

Episode 1: https://youtu.be/2VQJK2P5-l4
Episode 2: https://youtu.be/kHcLIhtubkY
Episode 3: https://youtu.be/64ZdoegNPHE
Episode 4: https://youtu.be/IQR5ZFrGdjo

Director/writer Maurice O’Carroll is developing it into a 6 part TV Series.

Cast in the lead is Eddie Jackson. Heavily supported by Sinead O’Riordan, Ben Condron with appearances from Michael O’Kelly and Degnan Geraghty.

The Lodgers is a gothic supernatural thriller about an orphaned twin who fights to free herself from a horrid, long-held family curse.

It goes on general release on 23 February and you can catch Brendan O’Rourke in it. It has been very successful on the festival circuit up to now and won an IFTA for special effects.

Both PAUL ELLIOT and NEILL FLEMING have just finished shooting The Third season of martial arts series,  Into The Badlands for AMC/USA.

PATRICK O’DONNELL and NEILL FLEMING has just finished shooting Vikings, season 6 for History Channel.

Kathleen Warner Yeates and Nelly Henrion can be seen playing Aunt Carroll and Estelle respectively alongside Angela Lansbury in the BBC’s adaptation of the three part series Little Women over Christmas.

Louise Mathews will be appearing in this year’s Christmas show:  Hansel and Gretel at The Mac in Belfast.

She plays the witch and a few other parts. She is having a great time being a triple threat – acting, singing and dancing.

This runs until the first week of January 2018

Alex Cusack Management is delighted to announce taking on two creatives.  Musician, Singer, Composer SEAN MILLAR and Director, Writer and Dramaturg PETER REID.

SEAN MILLAR

“Irelands Greatest songwriter” hot Press

“A national treasure” the irish times

“Irelands greatest lyricist” the RTE guide

Sean Millar is a musician from Dublin. He works in three areas : as a

recording and performing artist, as a composer for theatre – and as an Artist/

facilitator in community based creativity, music and education

programmes.

In 1995, Sean was nominated solo performer of the year at The Heineken Hotpress Awards.

All his solo albums have had critical acclaim and have received top star ratings. He has performed in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and Canada. His songs have been sung by Jack L, Camille O’Sullivan, Tom Dunne, Gavin Friday.

He is also a composer for theatre and he has gained widespread international acclaim for his work on Silver Starts (author/composer) and The Blue Boy (Composer) that both toured the world to rave reviews and international acclaim.

He regularly works with Brokentalkers and has worked with Theatreclub.

He also uses his skills and talents to collaborate with communities and helping to create ongoing music programs.

PETER REID

Peter has been directing theatre for the past twenty years. His main focus has been on the works of Beckett, Pinter and Shakespeare. He has also worked with new playwrights and acted as dramaturg as well.

He is the artistic director of AC Productions and his production of WAITING FOR GODOT recently played three weeks at The Arts Theatre, West End to great reviews.

He has also adapted and staged CYCLOPS (from James Joyce’s Ulysses), DESIRE (based on Tolstoy’s short story ‘The Devil’) and he is currently writing The Hypochondriac to make up his Moliere trilogy, having staged The School for Wives and The Misanthrope.

The Man Who Invented Christmas opens this November at The Cork Film Festival and then is on General release, ready for Christmas.

Eddie Jackson, Mark Schrier and Degnan Geraghty worked alongside Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce and Dan Stevens on this seasonal movie that was shot in Dublin last December.

Official Trailer

Clodagh Mooney Duggan will be playing Cordelia and The Fool in The Mill Theatre Productions’ King Lear.

The show runs from 4th – 27th October at The Mill Theatre in Dundrum

Eddie Jackson can currently be seen playing petty criminal Cormac Walsh in RTE’s new series ‘Acceptable Risk on Sunday nights on RTE 2.

Both Neill Fleming and Edwin Mullane will be appearing in Corps Ensemble’s much anticipated production of Close To The Sun written by Philip Doherty at The Dublin Fringe Festival.

This plays Smock Alley main space from 13 – 17th September

http://fringefest.com/festival/whats-on/close-to-the-sun

Michael Patrick has written this one man show My Left Nut which he also performs at This year’s Dublin Fringe Festival.

It is part of Fishamble’s Show in a Bag scheme which plays at Bewleys Theatre from 11th – 23rd September

http://fringefest.com/festival/whats-on/my-left-nut

… Also in the fringe is Clodagh Mooney Duggan in THESE LIGHTS from 13th – 16th September at The Lir.

http://fringefest.com/festival/whats-on/these-lights

Patrick O’Donnell and Paul Elliot are appearing in AC Productions’ WAITING FOR GODOT at The Arts Theatre, West End from 5th – 23rd September.

Directed by Peter Reid, Patrick plays Gogo and Paul plays Lucky.

https://artstheatrewestend.co.uk

This year the festival will be opening with the feature ‘RED ROOM’ starring Eddie Jackson and Rodrigo Ternevoy and Degnan Geraghty

Amy Joyce Hastings has been nominated as best actress in the short, LILY directed by Graham Cantwell.

Best of luck to her.

If you’re in Edinburgh this year, you can catch Annette Flynn in The Sweet Science at St Columbas near The Castle.

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/sweet-science

Tim Casey can currently be seen playing Goebbels in National Geographic’s Drama/documentary ‘NAZI MEGASTRUCTURES, Series 4.

It runs through August and September.

This year, Amy Joyce Hastings directed the short QED which was accepted at the 29th Galway Film Fleadh this year.

This also starts two other clients, Michael O’Kelly and Charlene Gleeson.

Good luck to them all…

New Irish Shorts 1

Interview with Amy Joyce:

#Interview: Scannain talks QED with Amy-Joyce Hastings ahead of premiere at Galway Film Fleadh

In the meantime Sanctuary is in the cinemas now with Amy Joyce Hastings

Edel Murphy will be spending the summer at The Gaiety Theatre playing the Soprano soloist in Riverdance.

Conor Gormally has been rehearsing Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman which opens at The Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End on 29th July.

He is understudying and playing ensemble.

If you watch Ripper Street on BBC for the moment you will catch both Paul Elliot and Eddie Jackson. Paul plays one of the police men in a couple of episodes and Eddie plays Mr Sparks.

Here is an interview with Eddie where he talks about Ripper Street.

RIPPER STREET 5 interview with Eddie Jackson

Brahm Gallagher joins Disney family and guest stars as Mike, The Biker in the second  of the teen series The Lodge.

Go, Disney!

Michael O’Kelly, Stephen Dalton and Simon Toal will be appearing in Cyclops, an adaptation of one of Joyce’s chapters from Ulysses written by Peter Reid.

It plays at the New Theatre from 5th – 24th June. Michael plays Alf the barman, Stephen plays Bloom and Simon plays the Narrator.

Grace Fitzgerald will be appearing in Moliere’s The Misanthrope produced by 13 Spanner,  written and directed by Peter Reid at The Viking Theatre, The Sheds, Clontarf until April 22nd 2017. This is a re-run after a hugely successful run at The New Theatre last year.

(With Sorcha Furlong who plays Celimene)

ART KEARNS will be appearing in All That We Found Here by Donagh Humphries at The New Theatre from 3rd April – 15th April 2017.

The estranged daughter of an exiled property tycoon returns to the family mansion on Ailesbury road.
A gang of handymen-cum-gangsters also have designs on the house and its contents.
Their paths are inexorably destined to cross and their histories are tragically interwoven.
A play about class, power and the nature of the social contract.

Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya returns this year for a second time, touring around Ireland.

Michael Hayes joins the team again in Jim Nolan’s critically acclaimed play. Touring from 20th March until 1st April it hits Kilkenny, Waterford, Galway, Dun Laoghaire and New Bridge.

LILY and TERMINAL have been IFTA nominated for best short.

Amy Joyce Hastings stars in Lily

Andrea Kelly starts in Terminal.

Good luck to both films…

Arndt Schwering Sohnrey plays the propaganda journalist in an episode of five part series SS-GB based in Len Deighton’s novel. This is currently airing on Sunday nights on BBC1.

Foto?

Rex Ryan, Neill Fleming and Edwin Mullane star in Corps Ensemble’s  Made in China which runs at The Viking Theatre (27 Feb- 11 March) followed by a week at The Civic Theatre (13 – 18 March) and a night in Galway Town Hall Theatre (20th March)

http://www.thecorpsensemble.com

Joe Gallagher has joined the cast of Red Rock to play a substantial guest role. Red Rock can be watched every Monday night on TV3.

Brahm Gallagher wins best actor as the title role in The Cursed Man which premiered on October 31st 2016 in Hollywood.

Clodagh Mooney Duggan plays Gerda in The Snow Queen at Smock Alley Theatre this Christmas from 5th – 23rd December at 2.30 and 7.30

Rodrigo Ternevoy has joined the cast of Fair City filming the recurring role of Christiano.

He has been in the show since the end of December 2016 and is another fun addition to the team.

Charlene Gleeson will be appearing in Fair City soon too. She has finished shooting so we should be seeing her on our screens before the end of the year.

Eddie Jackson has joined the cast of RTE’s Acceptable risk, filming alongside Elaine Cassidy who stars. This six part thriller set in Dublin. This has been written by Ron Hutchinson,an Emmy award winning LA screen writer.

#Teilifis: Production underway on new six-part drama series Acceptable Risk

Neill Fleming is playing Claudius in Mill Productions’ HAMLET which plays at The Mill Theatre from 5th October – 28th October

Eilis O’Donnell writes and performs in The Crown and The Red Cross at Dublin Castle.

A unique theatrical production of historical events staged in the magnificent and exclusive after hours setting of the State Apartments. It is done in promenade.

Runs until 2nd October at 6.30pm and 8.30pm.

Degnan Geraghty was cast as the Latin Speaking priest in this new season of Vikings. He had a latin coach on set, thankfully so that he could brush up and sound good!

Meg O’Brien is appearing in HOSTEL 16 at Smock Alley  from 15 – 18 September @ 9.15pm

Susan Barrett is appearing in RISK at The New Theatre from 15 – 24 September.

Edwin Mullane and Rex Ryan of Corps Ensemble play 3 weeks at The Viking Theatre in Tracy Lett’s play ‘BUG’. This runs from 6th September until 24th September.

Grace Fitzgerald is currently appearing in AC Productions’ THE MISANTHROPE’ by Moliere in a new version by Peter Reid. Grace plays “Eliante” the honest cousin of Celimine (Sorcha Furlong.

This runs until 10th September at The New Theatre.