MICHAEL PATRICK & OISÍN KEARNEY

Michael Patrick (actor & writer - left) and Oisín Kearney (director & writer - right).

 

An Irish creative partnership that make original work for Theatre, Radio, TV & Film.

Theatre writing: My Left Nut (Show in a Bag), The Alternative (Fishamble’s A Play for Ireland), The Border Game (Lyric Theatre Belfast & Prime Cut Productions)

Radio Writing: Bitter Pill (5 x 30’) The 100 Year Old Backstop (1 x 30’) BBC Radio Four, This One Time on the Border (6 x 30’), Quick Comedy (6 x 30’) Radio Ulster.

TV Writing includes My Left Nut (BBC Three), Soft Border Patrol (BBC NI).

Current Traverse Theatre/IASH creative fellows. Former Abbey Theatre Commemoration Bursary recipients. Former members of BBC Writers’ Room Belfast Voices, Irish Theatre Institute’s Virtual Attic, Bewley’s Cafe Theatre New Writing initiative and The MAC Belfast’s Hatch and Scratch.

Oisín is represented as a writer and a director by Nick Marston at Curtis Brown.

Michael is represented as a writer by Nick Marston at Curtis Brown, and as an actor by Claire Hughes at The Agency.

Awards

  • My Left Nut (BBC)
    Winner:
    Royal Television Society Northern Ireland 2020 - Best Drama
    Royal Television Society Yorkshire 2021 - Best Drama
    Royal Television Society Yorkshire 2021 - Best Writers
    Nominee:
    Broadcast Digital Award 2020 - Best Drama

  • My Left Nut (Theatre)
    Winner:
    Summerhall Lustrum Award -Edinburgh Fringe 2018
    Nominee:
    Bewley's Little Gem Award - Dublin Fringe 2017.
    Selected:
    The Guardian “Best shows at Edinburgh” - Ed Fringe 2018.

  • The Alternative
    Winner:
    Fishamble’s A Play for Ireland programme.
    Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020 - Best Director & Best Soundscape.
    Nominee:
    Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020 - Best New Play.
    Writers’ Guild of Ireland ZeBBie Awards 2020 - Best New Play.