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.