My Portfolio
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WORTH FIGHTING FOR
(dir. Joseph Morris)
This was my first project with NoWiFi and my first collaboration with Joseph Morris. Originally part of a 5x5 challenge (five shots each lasting five seconds), it was expanded into a three-minute piece about two guys bare-knuckle boxing. Stars Arthur Janowsky as my opponent and Gerry Cannon as our referee.
STOLEN CITY - "FACES"
(dir. Ciarán O'Donnell)
Filmed literally the day after 'Worth Fighting For', this was a music video for a Dublin-based band called Stolen City. The plot of the video was around a transgender girl (Jamie O’Herlihy) with a tense relationship with her father (John Duggan). I played one of three thugs who discover her identity and don’t take it well. A really powerful message on acceptance and tolerance, alongside a great song I still have on my iPod.
PROPOSING CONFUSION
(dir. Oisín MacFarland-Smith)
Made as part of a competition for one-minute short films, 'Proposing
Confusion' is a fun comedy about an engagement ring being passed around various people. Few things in my career will top being credited as ‘Dodgy Guy 2’.
STUCK HOME SYNDROME
(dir. Joseph Morris)
Another comedy with NoWiFi, this slightly surreal piece revolves around a teenager having a unique reaction to getting grounded. I had a small part as one of his friends who has spent the last twenty five hours drinking. I’m a teetotaler and it marked the first of many times I played drunk. It was also the first time I had lines in anything.
THE FISHERMAN
(dir. Alice Kinsella)
My first time being on stage in fifteen years was in the What’s The Story part of The Liberties festival. A five minute comedy showing what you assume to be three bickering old men in a pub – who are eventually revealed to be teenagers who have skipped school – it marked the first time I’d ever had to do an Irish accent. I also discovered I have the skill of burping on cue.
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AARON
(dir. Bobby Calloway)
Ever tried writing, directing and starring? My advice – don’t. Unless you have Zeff Lawless behind the camera. This domestic drama about two half-brothers reconnecting was written as a vehicle for my good friend Thomas Fitzgerald, and I just played the aloof older brother out of convenience. It ended up being my first big part, and we shot it on a July afternoon with a skeleton crew. The film was really fun to make and it ended up with well over 140,000 views on YouTube!
KING LEAR
(dir. Nuno Theodoro)
The play’s the thing, and all that. I’d never done Shakespeare in my life, aside from when I’d studied this very play in school. But I auditioned and ended up cast as Cornwall. This version was modern-themed – with Lear’s kingdom being presented as a business empire. I interpreted Cornwall as an ex-military man who was hired for his muscle – which was put to good use in a certain eye-gouging scene.
SHAKESPEARE UNWRAPPED
(dir. Paul Dowling)
My first TV credit came as part of an edutainment series for Leaving Cert students. Surprise, surprise – it was another 'King Lear' adaptation. And I got cast as Cornwall yet again! This one was definitely period, though ambiguously so. The eye scene was a real highlight – they got genuine pigs’ eyes from the butchers and I had to squash them for multiple takes.
BOXED IN
(dir. David Keeling)
Proving there’s never a dull moment with No WiFi, I was sent a script for a comedy where I would play – and this is a ‘not making this up disclaimer’ – an agoraphobic boy called Jack who lives in a box. Oh and it was my first American role. And yes for one take I did go inside the box to say my lines. As a joke I also played a delivery man wheeling the box out near the end. Easily one of the most fun roles I’ve had yet.
A DIM CHRISTMAS
(dir. Joseph Morris)
I reunited with Joseph Morris a third time for this fun little comedy sketch – about a boyfriend and girlfriend whose gift-giving goes quite wrong. I was lucky to work with the ridiculously talented Kendal Evans – bringing her LA professionalism and A-game. I was left a giggling pile of tears by the end of the shoot, and it’s one of my favourite things to show people. Kendal also got fooled by my accent at first too.
CHRISTMAS TALE
(dir. Thomas Dunne)
I reunited with some of the cast and crew from King Lear to do a nifty site-specific adaptation of A Christmas Carol in Blackrock market. Our Scrooge led the customers around the sites, while scenes from the story were performed. I did double duty – first appearing as Scrooge’s nephew Fred in the opening scene and later as the ghostly child Ignorance. My voice was also used for Christmas Present and that of the wandering spirits.
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GOLD STANDARD
(dir. Zac Goold)
My first project of 2018 was where I met my friend Zac Goold in this dark comedy. I played a hitman who botches a job and has to tie up loose ends. This marked my first time getting to play a ditz, which was pretty fun. I have an opening monologue dividing the entire world into people who like raisins and those who don’t. I also spontaneously tried a Liverpool accent.
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I WORRY ABOUT YOU SOMETIMES
(dir. James-Owen Kenny)
An old friend from college James-Owen Kenny sent me a message asking if I’d like to be in a music video project he was working on. So it was off to Tralee for a week. Set in a dystopian future, I played a man called Steve who is confronting the reality that adulthood is not the privileged paradise he was told about. Madness ensues, which means I really got to have fun on camera.
HIGH & TIGHT
(dir. Bobby Calloway)
Presenting my magnum opus – a war film set in the not-too-distant future where Ireland has entered a war in Eastern Europe. Playing one of several young people who now enlist, this was my favourite role and the performance I’m most proud of. I reunited with Zeff Lawless and Thomas Fitzgerald from Aaron and got introduced to a lot of great new faces – Paul Sparkes, James Healy-Meany and Kaireht Yovera.
VICTORIES
(dir. Thomas Pollock)
Continuing the military theme, I finally got to play a British soldier in this World War I drama by Frontier Pictures. Set on the very last day of the war, I play a young buck called Private Benjamin Harrison who crosses paths with a decorated German pilot called Otto von Siegman. One of the finest shoots I’ve ever been on, and I was privileged enough to work with the uber talented Andrew McNeill.
SCRÍOS
(dir. Rían Mahood Gallagher)
Another of my scripts is adapted for the screen. This time it’s a dark fairy tale that takes a turn you wouldn’t expect from a Sleeping Beauty story. I got to don chain mail for the first time and loved every minute of it – playing a knight who got more than he bargained for. This was my first time working with my great friend Sefora Castro – who totally owned the lead role.
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A short film that takes place in 1994 and follows two former friends of Northern Ireland who have grown apart. My character Tommy looks like he’d rather forget his roots in the name of a quiet life. Looking forward to working with the unreal James McKenzie – who I briefly shared the screen with on Victories.
PASSING
(dir. Rían Mahood Gallagher)
UPCOMING
BLUE VALENTINE
(dir. Byron Hayes)
No WiFi is producing an upcoming web series that will be coming to your screens in early 2019. The crime mystery follows a man called Jack Duggan as he tries to find his missing teenage daughter. I play a computer genius hired off the record by the police to help solve the case.
UPCOMING
SPEARS
(dir. Gerard Lough)
My first feature film role will be in Gerard Lough’s neo-noir thriller. A pretty epic production that will be spanning all sorts of locations – from Florence to Berlin – you’ll be able to catch me as Jeff. All I’ll say is that he’s a man of questionable morals.
UPCOMING
Myself and Tom Fitzgerald will reunite once more – this time in feature length. This road drama will see me playing an American tourist in Ireland bonding with two strangers as he flashes back to a complicated relationship he had in his past. I’m also looking forward to working with my good friend – the insanely talented Luke Anthony Jr.