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EMMET KIRWAN

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Emmet Kirwan is a graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre at Trinity College Dublin. An actor and writer, he wrote and starred in the Irish television cult comedy series Sarah and Steve. Emmet won the Stewart Parker Trust New Playwright Bursary 2014 for his first play Dublin Oldschool, which premiered as part of the Show In A Bag programme in 2014. He wrote and performed four spoken word pieces as part of THISISPOPBABY's 2016 production for Tiger Dublin Fringe RIOT. The short film Heartbreak, based on a monologue from RIOT went viral following its release in 2017.

Emmet was a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute Resource Sharing Initiative, from 2015-2016.

PLAYWRITING CREDITS

Play Title Playwright
Dear Ireland I Blindboy Boatclub Dermot Bolger Pom Boyd Sinéad Burke Karen Cogan John Connors Carys D. Coburn Kit de Waal Shaun Dunne Iseult Golden Stacey Gregg Sarah Hanly Nancy Harris David Ireland Thomas Kane Byrne Colm Keegan (2) Sonya Kelly Deirdre Kinahan Emmet Kirwan Darach Mac Con Iomaire Manchán Magan Aoife Martyn Owen McCafferty Rosaleen McDonagh Frank McGuinness Meadhbh McHugh Una McKevitt Phillip McMahon Andrea Molino Gina Moxley Jimmy Murphy Zoe Ní Riordáin Edna O'Brien Eva O'Connor Joseph O'Connor (1) John O'Donovan (2) Mark O'Halloran Jody O'Neill Shane O'Reilly Margaret Perry Ursula Rani Sarma Arthur Riordan Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Abbie Spallen Feli Speaks Keith James Walker Enda Walsh Michael West Carmel Winters Zhu Yi
Dublin Oldschool Emmet Kirwan
Theatre For One (Ireland) Marina Carr Stacey Gregg Emmet Kirwan Louise Lowe Mark O'Rowe Enda Walsh

ACTOR

Play Title Playwright
Alice in Funderland Phillip McMahon Raymond Scannell
Bogboy Deirdre Kinahan
Car Show 3
Chicane Anthony Brophy
Dublin Oldschool Emmet Kirwan
Election Night Donal Courtney
Ladies and Gents Paul Walker
Mushroom Paul Meade
The Picture of Dorian Gray Neil Bartlett Oscar Wilde
The Train Arthur Riordan Bill Whelan
Waiting for IKEA Georgina McKevitt Jacinta Sheerin
Where He Lies John Barrett