Biography

Andy has over thirty years experience as

Director

Playwright

Author

Acting Teacher

Actor

Business Presentation Coach

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DIRECTOR

For ten years Artistic Director of Classic Stage Ireland, Andy has directed at Dublin’s Abbey and Gate Theatres, Galway’s Druid Theatre, Glyndebourne, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Wexford Opera, Scottish Opera, London’s King’s Head and Soho Theatres, and for some time was Associate Director at The  Bristol Old Vic. 

Productions include…

The Bacchae… Macbeth… Julius Caesar… Bedroom Farce

As You Like It… The Winter’s Tale… Fidelio,,, Look Back in Anger

Mother CourageLa Cenerentola… Perchance to Dream…

The Revenger’s Tragedy… Godspell,,, All’s Well That Ends Well

A Midsummer Night’s Dream… Twelfth Night

Iphigenia in Aulis… AgamemnonOedipus the King…

PLAYWRIGHT

Plays include…

OCTOBER SONG

Published Carysfort Press, Ireland

THE STARVING (Revived as ‘Sea Lavender‘)

Carysfort Press

MORNING, AFTERNOON and EVENING

first two parts of the trilogy published by Oberon Books, UK

BLOODTIES

trilogy of three one-act plays – Focus Theatre/New Theatre, Dublin

CRYSTALS HOUSE

Project Arts Centre, Dublin

FIRST OF THE DAY

Radio play broadcast on RTE

ACTING TEACHER

In LONDON Andy has taught at…

RADA

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE

ROSE BRUFORD

THE ACTORS’ CENTRE

In DUBLIN has taught at…

GAIETY SCHOOL OF ACTING

TRINITY COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

with his own…

CLASSIC STAGE IRELAND ACTING STUDIO

and has taught at…

THE NATIONAL THEATRE SCHOOL of CANADA

BUSINESS Presentation Coach

Andy is an international authority and coach in high-impact business presentation and communication.

He coaches MBA students at:

SDA Bocconi Milan

HEC Paris

IE Madrid

EM Lyons

EM Grenoble

Judge School of Business, Cambridge.

Actor

Andy made his debut as an actor in his play,

MORNING AFTERNOON and EVENING

(The New Theatre/ Project Arts Centre, Dublin…. Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe…. Actors’ Centre and Pleasance Theatre, London….. Lyric Theatre, Belfast.)  

AUTHOR

ACTING SHAKESPEARE’S LANGUAGE

Published Oberon Books UK 2015

TRANSLATOR

Verse translation of Aeschylus’

ORESTEIA TRILOGY

Oberon Books UK 2017

Verse translation of Euripides’

IPHIGENIA IN AULIS (Full and Performance versions)

Oberon Books UK 2017

CONTACT: ahnomdeplume@gmail.com