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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

Brahm Gallagher will be appearing in two episodes of RTE’s new drama “Striking Out” . He will be joining Amy Hubermann and Rory Keenan on this project which is due to come out some time near the end of the year

Update – post show, Brahm has caused a bit of a stir… as The ‘ridey’ Barrista, Pete..

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/i-want-another-date-with-tara-striking-outs-hunky-barista-pushes-for-a-second-series-35412342.html

Andrea Cleary will be appearing in Pygmalion directed by Liam Halligan which runs from 2nd July to 3rd September.

She is taking on the role of Clara in what is a classic play.

Show Details

Lisa Fox is returning to The Olympia theatre this summer, playing the ex-girlfriend in the smash hit, award winning Dublin musical “ONCE”

It runs from July 2nd – August 27th. Not to be missed!

Both Emma Willis and Eddie Jackson are currently filming the New American Pilot, ‘DAWN’ which is filming up and around Ardmore Studios.

This series goes back in time to prehistoric earth.   Set on an epic scale, Dawn follows a tribe of Neanderthals as they struggle to survive and hold on to their way of life after coming into contact with a family of Homo Sapiens. At the intersection of evolution and genocide, Dawn asks the fundamental question, what does it mean to be human?

http://deadline.com/2016/05/hulu-dawn-prehistoric-drama-pilot-hank-steinberg-ken-nolan-mgm-1201750030/

American actor, Brahm Gallagher is filming on Red Rock. He has a guest appearance as the dashing Tony Lynch.

Along with that, in the same week he is filming MY MOTHER AND OTHER STRANGERS for BBC NI up in Belfast.

Michael Patrick is appearing in Shakespeare’s Othello at The Abbey Theatre as officer and ensemble this May and June.

It runs from 5th May – 11th April 2016

Both Rex Ryan, Kathleen Warner Yeates and Grace Fitzgerald are appearing in AC Productions’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet directed by Peter Reid at The New Theatre.

Rex plays the title role, Kathleen plays his mother, Gertude and Grace plays Ophelia.

Hamlet runs from 11 – 23rd April 2016 at The New Theatre at 7.30pm.

This is not a schools show!

Rob Walsh is currently filming Vikings IV..

Emma Willis will be appearing as Mary in The Everyman’s production of Juno and The Paycock.

This runs from 10th – 20th February.

John Morton joins Lisa Fox in TABOO, written by himself and directed by Sarah Baxter at The New Theatre from 15th – 27th February at 7.30.

Taboo is a dark comedy that allows us to better get acquainted with the skeletons in our cupboards.

This February, Edwin Mullane and Neill Fleming join Rex Ryan in Mark O’Rowe’s MADE IN CHINA at The Viking Theatre.

It plays for two weeks from 8 – 20th February at 8pm.

Paul Elliot has bagged himself a few episodes of Ripper street with the possibility of extending..

He dons an english bobby’s uniform, playing a Division.