BIOGRAPHY
Lynda Kirby
Author, Director, Producer
Lynda Kirby is a mature lady who has written since she could hold a pen. Her first major success was a win at a National School Essay contest and her prize was five Cadbury Crème Eggs. She says she’s never had a better prize.
She has been involved in numerous writing workshops for prose, poetry, stage plays, screen plays and radio plays: a variety of theatre activities from writing, producing, directing, props, front of house, well, you get the drift.
When she was in her fourth decade after a life-threatening illness she studied Imaginative Writing and Theatre Studies at Liverpool John Moores University – better late than never – then went on to the postgraduate MA Writing.
She has retired now but continues to write and be involved all forms of creative activity. This current project is one close to her heart as it supports a very worthwhile charity.
Richie Cowdell
Richie's most recent career highlights have been: Blood Sail; After Braveheart; Prison Door; Wonderland; and Game of Thrones.
He also has a keen interest in stunts and has acted on projects with his son.
Robert Forshaw
Robert Forshaw is the owner of Footsteps, a Theatre company that specialises in Historical Interpretation, Museum Theatre & Theatre in Education throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom, as well as providing script writing and Drama Consultancy services.
Robert has over 20 years experience performing on stage across Europe and in America.
He was born and bred in Bangor, County Down and now lives in Warrenpoint, County Down.
He received his professional acting training from Guildhall in London, has a BA Hons in History and is a playwright.
Christophe
Lombardi
Dorothy Laity
While pantomime and comedy are her specialist areas and first love, Dorothy has also performed in a wide variety of other disciplines at home and abroad.
Aside from various pantos, her highlights have included working with the Talking Newspapers Network, in TIE, street theatre, accessible Shakespeare and many others.
Now based in County Westmeath, she works as a freelance actor, voice artist and technician, with a sideline in promoting visibility and greater equality for performers with disabilities.
Since May of 2014, she has been partnered with Irish Dogs for Disabled's Emma, a mobility and tasker type assistance dog.
She is delighted to join the cast and support
"the best little charity in the World".
Trained as an actor at Les Cours Simon, in his native Paris, Christophe then struck out to try his hand at many forms of performance, in a journey that took him through France, Germany, Senegal, Ireland, Malta & UK.
After moving to Ireland in 1997 Christophe worked for Il Florilegio circus, then auditioned for and became a member of the Society of Irish Magicians while at the same time co-founding a street theatre troup who brought Irish legends to life through live fire shows.
Nowadays, while specialising in Acting, Magic and Medieval Combat display, Christophe also studies Astrophysics with the Open University.
For the last five years he has been the owner-operator of Trapdoor Entertainment. One of his highlights was the successful international tour over Christmas 2012, of his self written card based magic show "A La Carte".
2014-15 has been a developmental period for Christophe. After some further education with an incredibly talented tutor in Dublin, Christophe has been focused on developing new projects for the 2016 season and beyond. With a stage play at the devising stage, Christophe also launched his new initiative, "The Performers' Backyard", which aims to work at a grass roots level to support performers of all levels, not only in a professional, but also a personal context. Primarily this work has taken the form of a vlog, but further projects are also being explored. Christophe is also currently involved in his first foray into Musical Theatre, playing as Drake in the Mullingar Musical Society's current production of "Annie", which opened on October 1st.
He lives in County Westmeath, with his actor & technician fiancée & her assistance dog, four cats, three chickens and two fish. In his rare moments of down time, he loves cooking, knitting and gaming.
Nick Young
At school Nick played a Viscount in Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, King Saul in J M Barrie’s The Boy David, and the title role in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
At University he played Florizel in A Winter’s Tale.
There followed a period of “resting”, which lasted more than 40 years, before he rediscovered his love of acting when he joined the Borderline Players in 2009, playing Gilbert Bodley in their production of Ray Cooney’s and John Chapman’s farce Not Now Darling in 2010, and the Reverend Matthew Gribble in their 2011 production of Sam Cree’s Seperate Beds.
In 2012 he played Arthur Winslow in Terence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy with the Enniskillen Amateur Dramatic Society, and the title role in Borderline Players’ pantomime Bluebeard. He played Joe Helliwell in J B Priestley’s When We Are Married which St Dympna’s Dramatic Society, Dromore, Co Tyrone, took on the 2013 Festival Circuit in the North West. Also in 2013 he appeared as Sir Willoughby Drake in Ray Cooney’s It Runs In The Family with the Borderline Players, and as a number of historical figures in Robert Forshaw’s cross-border production of TURAS. He represented the Society at the Directors’ Weekend at Stratford-on-Avon in September as part of the RSC’s Open Stages Project.
In February 2014 he played Colonel von Strohm in EADS’ performance of ‘Allo ‘Allo and also helped to direct the play. He then wrote and directed the Society in Pirates Do Shakespeare for the Fermanagh Live Festival which was performed outdoors in Enniskillen’s Buttermarket. In 2015 he directed the EADS’ production of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors which was chosen to represent the Northern Ireland Region at the National Showcase for the RSC’s Open Stages Project on the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
John Quinn
John is a talented and versatile stage and screen actor.
His recent credits include 'Joe Malone' in "RED ROCK", 'Tony' in "MOONE BOY 3", "The LEGEND OF LONGWOOD", "LOVE/HATE" (Season 3) and 'Colin Doherty' in "VEXED" (Season 2) which filmed here in Ireland.
John's short films credits include 'Pat' in the IADT short "A DRY CHRISTMAS", 'Johnny' in Cathal Nally's "THE COUNTY" and 'Frank' in the London Film School Short "A GOOD FRIDAY".
Recently John played 'Lennie' in Rail Theatre's staging of "OF MICE AND MEN" which ran in Mullingar Arts Centre and was also performed at Electric Picnic.
John is currently represented by Tom O'Sullivan.