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writing

I'm working with Al and Sadhbh of ALSA on a new work, Gull, which featured an in-progress sharing at the Cork Theatre Collective in early June and at the upcoming SHOW. Tolled, a new short play for Landmark's Theatre for One  was part of Cork Midsummer Festival.

My new play with songs Missing Earth, developed with Graffiti and the RTÉ Toy Show fund, was presented in April 2025 at The Fitzgibbon Theatre.


Recent produced works are HUMANS: A Robot Musical (Graffiti, Everyman for Cork Midsummer Festival 2022 & national tour 2023), SNUG (Cork City Council 2022 & 2023), an entirely sung story set in a pub, and WHALE (Cork Opera House, Cork Midsummer Festival 2022).
 

acting

I reprised the role of Paulie in the development showing of Mick Flannery's The House Must Win at Galway International Arts Festival. I performed Cónal Creedon and John O'Brien's Pluto's Vision of Heaven at the 170th Gala Concert at Cork Opera House in March. I starred in Maximilian Le Cain's recently released Dordán and was one of five cast members in the Improv Panto at Cork Opera House 2024. I've performed in SNUG, WHALE (Cork Opera House, Midsummer Festival), Blackwater Babble (Brokencrow), This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing (Graffiti Theatre), The Big Chapel X (Asylum, Kilkenny Arts Festival), Evening Train (Everyman and Rosa Productions), The Lonesome West (Everyman) --- nominated Best Supporting Actor at the Irish Theatre Awards. I'm represented as an actor by Maureen, Eleanor and Emily at First Call Management.

    ©2025 John McCarthy

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