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Michael McElhatton

Michael’s work at the Abbey Theatre includes Only an Apple, Romeo and Juliet and Twenty Grand. Other theatre work includes The Seafarer (National Theatre, London), Shining City (Royal Court/Gate Theatre), The Wexford Trilogy (Tricycle), An Ideal Husband (Gate Theatre), The White Devil (Loose Canon), Car Show (The Corn Exchange), Greatest Hits, The Midnight Court (Project Arts Centre), The Way of the World (Rough Magic), A Decision Pure and Simple (Riverside Studio), An Enemy of the People (Young Vic), As You Like It (Rose Theatre), The Wind in the Willows (Sheffield Crucible), Little Malcolm and the Struggle Against the Eunuchs (BAC), Handsome, Handicapped and Hebrew (Grove Theatre), Elizabeth Barton (Tabard Theatre) and Water Music (Cockpit Theatre). Films include Perrier’s Bounty, Fifty Dead Men Walking, Happy Ever Afters, The Tiger’s Tail, Mickyboy and Me, Spin the Bottle, Intermission, The Actors, Blowdry, Saltwater, Crush Proof, Just in Time, All Souls’ Day, I Went Down and November Afternoon. Television credits include Father and Son, Single Handed III, Whistleblower, Hide and Seek, Paths to Freedom, for which he received an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor, Fergus’s Wedding, (RTÉ), Aristocrats, Vicious Circle, Rebel Heart, The Ambassdpr (BBC) and My Boy Jack. Writing credits include Paths to Freedom, Fergus’s Wedding and Spin the Bottle.


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  • Karl Shiels and Michael McElhatton in rehearsal for Macbeth by William Shakespeare, directed by Jimmy Fay. Photo by Ros Kavanagh.
  • Cathy Belton, Denis Conway, Eleanor Methven, Andrea Ainsworth, Michael McElhatton in rehearsal for Christ Deliver Us! by Thomas Kilroy, directed by Wayne Jordan, on the Abbey stage. Pic by Ros Kavanagh

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