Oisín Kearney

Michael Patrick (actor & writer from Belfast) and Oisín Kearney (director & writer from Warrenpoint) met at the University of Cambridge where they began making theatre together and ran the University’s Ireland society. They then formed Pan Narrans Theatre in Belfast. Last year they co-wrote the award-winning My Left Nut, which was developed through the Show in a Bag programme run by Fishamble, The ITI and The Dublin Fringe. Over the past year they’ve been a part of the BBC Belfast Voices screenwriting scheme, have written for BBC NI’s Soft Border Patrol and were shortlisted to write for BBC 3’s The Break.

Oisín directs both theatre and documentary films. He localised Willy Russell’s script of Educating Rita to 1980s Belfast for the Lyric Theatre and was Assistant Director on the project. He was Assistant Director on the Lyric’s production of Good Vibrations and worked closely with Colin Carberry and Glen Patterson on their translation of the story from screen to stage. Oisín has Assistant Produced a number of feature length documentaries and has directed a number of short films. His first feature as Director will premiere on April 28 at Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto.