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Seán McGinley

Prior to his appearance in Ages of the Moon, Seán last worked at the Abbey Theatre in 1993. His work here includes A Whistle in the Dark (Irish Theatre Award), A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant, Conversations on a Homecoming and Famine, all by Tom Murphy, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, The Comedy of Errors, John McGahern’s The Power of Darkness, The Shaughraun, The Corsican Brothers and The Hamlet Project. Seán was a member of Druid from 1977-1989. Plays there included The Playboy of the Western World, Endgame, Waiting for Godot, Much Ado About Nothing, The Glass Menagerie, Loot, I Do Not Like Thee Dr Fell, Famine, On the Outside, Conversations on a Homecoming and Action and Geography of a Horsedreamer by Sam Shepard. In 2006 he returned to Druid to perform in Empress of India by Stuart Carolan which was also performed at the Abbey Theatre. Other theatre credits include Sam Shepard’s Simpatico, A Whistle in the Dark at the Royal Court (Time Out Award), Long Day’s Journey into Night (National Theatre, London), Aristocrats, Three Sisters, American Buffalo, and most recently, Conor McPherson’s The Weir, all at the Gate Theatre. Seán’s television credits include Roddy Doyle’s Family, National Entertainment Award (BBC), The Street (Ch 4), Minder, Cold Feet, Midsomer Murders, Watermelon (ITV) and Pure Mule (RTÉ). Films include The Field, Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, Braveheart, Trojan Eddie, The General , The Claim, Dead Bodies, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Tiger’s Tail, Simon Magus, The Closer You Get and On a Clear Day (IFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film).


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