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MIKE FINN

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Mike Finn is a playwright, screenwriter and actor and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Iowa. He holds MA in Scriptwriting form the National Film School. He is a founder member of Island Theatre Co. for whom he appeared in over twenty productions and wrote seven plays. Mike won the 2000 Stewart Parker Award for Pigtown, which was originally produced by Island Theatre Company, receiving four Irish Times Theatre Award nominations before being produced Off-Broadway and in San Jose. His numerous other plays include The Quiet Moment, The Crunch and Shock & Awe (Island Theatre Co., Ellis Island (Theatre USF, Florida), Stories (LYT), Langered and One (Balor Theatre Co.), The Big Question (Institute of Excitement, Hampstead Theatre, London, The Affair on the Square (Georgian House), We Are What We Witness, The Revenger's Tragedy and Porkville (Bottom Dog) and Life in 2 Syllables (Fishamble). Mike has also penned fifteen pantomime scripts produced by Centrestage, for whom he also wrote the book and lyrics of the musical Soul Garden.

PLAYWRITING CREDITS

Play Title Playwright
Charlie Chaplin's Mother was an Irishman Terry Devlin Mike Finn
Pigtown Mike Finn
The Quiet Moment Mike Finn
The Unlucky Cabin Boy Mike Finn
Tiny Plays for Ireland 2 Maeve Binchy Mark Cantan Mike Finn Kevin Gildea Brendan Griffin Conor Hanratty Garrett Keogh Henry Martin Geraldine McAlinden Colum McCann Christine McKeon Pauline McLynn Justine Mitchell Lucy Montague-Moffatt Richie O'Sullivan Patrick O'Sullivan Liz Quinn Federico Storni Graham Stull Tom Swift Eleanor White Tanya Wilson

ADAPTATIONS

Play Title Playwright
Shock and Awe Mike Finn . Homer
The Crunch Terry Devlin Mike Finn Molière
The Revenger's Tragedy Mike Finn Thomas Middleton

ACTOR

Play Title Playwright
Borrowed Robes John Barrett
Pigtown Mike Finn

FILM BY

Play Title Playwright
The Crunch Terry Devlin Mike Finn Molière
Adapted from Tartuffe by Molière.

AUDIO/VISUAL

Play Title Playwright
Shock and Awe Mike Finn . Homer
From Homer's 'The Iliad'.