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