with Fair City’s Seamus Moran
10.30am – 1.00pm Wednesday 11th November, Town Hall Theatre. Ages 15 – 18 years
During this workshop participants will work from scripts, and learn how an actor studies text as
a guiding principle. There will be a camera and projector to hand during the workshop to which
participants will act, and performances will be discussed and critiqued. Limited spaces.
Biography
Séamus is a native of Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo and a graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting. His theatre work includes: St Oscar and Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy with Field Day Theatre Company; Lady Windermere's Fan with Rough Magic; Vlad Dracula with Co-Motion. He co-wrote and directed Kangaroo Rats for the 1995 Dublin Theatre Festival Fringe. He has also appeared in Run for Your Wife (Olympia); The Field (Gaiety); Fontamara, adapted by Vincent Woods, 1998 Dublin Theatre Festival Fringe; The Undertaking (QuareHawks) 1999 Theatre Festival and Stadsschouwburg (State Theatre) Amsterdam; Burn This (Guna Nua); Stolen Child (Calypso Theatre Company); Speaking in Tongues and The Red Hot Runaways (Storytellers) at The Civic Theatre, He played Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night with Classic Stage Ireland and most recently Father in Less Than A Year with Island Theatre Company.
In 2003, Séamus completed a very successful countrywide tour of his one-man adaptation of St. Oscar (Terry Eagleton) in association with Tall Tales Theatre Company.
Strangest role was on radio where he played a conquistador who smashed babies’ heads off rocks in the name of religion!
Film and Television work includes: In the Name of the Father, Kidnapped, The Hanging Gale, Runway One, Stay Lucky and Ballykissangel. He plays beleaguered Bistro owner Mike Gleeson in RTE's Fair City. |
