Pat Kinevane

Pat is native of Cobh, County Cork. He has worked as an Actor in Ireland for the past 37 years. He began to write for the stage in 1997 and completed his first full length play The Nun’s Wood, which won a BBC Stewart Parker Trust Award in 1998 and was produced by Fishamble Theatre Company. Fishamble then produced his second play The Plains of Enna which premiered at the 1999 Dublin Theatre Festival. Since then, Pat has written a series of Five Solo Theatre pieces, namely Forgotten, Silent, Underneath, Before and King – all produced by Fishamble.

In 2016 with Fishamble, Pat won a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance and writing of Silent and a Helen Hayes award in Washington DC for the same show in 2019.  He has performed all Five pieces to huge acclaim throughout Ireland and Scotland, in London, Liverpool, Wales, Paris, Prague, Romania, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Serbia, Iceland,  Belgium, Croatia, Bulgaria, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in Australia, Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand, across India, New York, Washington DC, Boston, Cleveland and eight full seasons in Los Angeles.

Film and TV acting credits include: Shoe (Oscar shortlisted 2011)  King Arthur,  Holding (ITV)  Can’t Cope Won’t Cope,  A Mother’s Love’s a Blessing, Black Day at Blackrock, Headrush, Beckett on Film, The Informant, When Brendan met Trudy, The Run of the Country, Far and Away, Mystics, The General, Ella Enchanted, A Soldier’s Song, Little Hoodie, Right now Ladies and Gents, My Dinner With Oswald, The Countess Cathleen, Vicious Circle, Ballykissangel, Glenroe, Fair City, Upwardly Mobile and The Late Late Show Murder Mystery.

For The Abbey Theatre his work includes : Good Evening Mr Collins, The Colleen Bawn, Dancing at Lughnasa (also at The Sydney Opera House), By the Bog of Cats, The Broken Jug, Sheep’s Milk on the Boil, The Rivals, Drama at Inish, The Chirpaun, Monkey and Three Laws of Motion.  

For The Gate Theatre: The Home Place, Waiting for Godot, Salome, As You Like It, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Christmas Carol, Sharon’s Grave, She Stoops to Conquer, Arms and the Man, London Assurance, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,  The Thrupenny Opera,  Not I,  Act Without Words 2, and What Where.

Pat has appeared in Carthaginians for Druid, Studs for Passion Machine, Electra for B*spoke,  Baby Jane for Corn Exchange, Translations for Lyceum Edinburgh, The Field and The Risen People at the Gaiety (plus numerous Pantos there), and three seasons with Team Theatre. In 2005 Pat played the title role of Roy Keane in the hit musical, I,Keano.