Ceola Dunne
Ceola Dunne is 10 yrs old. She lives in Dunsany, Co. Meath.She goes to the Acting Academy in Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath She plays Gaelic football and goes to a GaelscoilCeola played the little girl in Evita at the National Concert Hall and sang with the National Symphony Orchestra back in June. She cried the next day as she didn't want it to be over.
Clare Keely
Clare Keely is 12 yrs oldShe lives in Craigavon, Co ArmaghShe is part of Stagebox She is a Junior Eurovision Semi-Finalist in 2022 Clare says: 'This is a dream come true. I am so delighted to be joining this amazing production.’
Doireann McNally
Doireann McNally is 11 years old She is from Dundalk, Co. Louth.Doireann got to sing on the Toy Show when she was 8 years old. She was the "Tiny Dancer" in the Elton John medley. She has also performed on the Late Late Show twice, first in 2020 as Irish Women in Harmony’s child soloist on their Christmas single Together at Christmas.Doireann says that getting to play Nell is "Amazing! Better than getting an elephant for Christmas!…… Which would be epic!"
Anna Healy
Anna is currently playing the role of Fiona alongside Aisling Kearns in THE SPIN, a two-hander play by Eimear Reilly, directed by Pat Kiernan for Corcadorca Theatre Co.
She most recently played the role of Ticket Person (to excellent reviews) in Sonya Kelly's acclaimed THE LAST RETURN, directed by Sara Joyce, which played as part of the Galway International Arts Festival and Edinburgh Festival 2022. Anna will reprise her role in the play as part of Dublin Theatre Festival this Autumn.
Prior to this Anna played Sam in CONVERSATIONS WITH ANGELS at the MAC directed by Tony Devlin, and the role of Maggie May in PORTIA COUGHLAN alongside Denise Gough, directed by Caroline Byrne for the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre.
Anna also recently recorded the characters of Frances Tully and Olivia in MINT, a new animated TV series for Cartoon Saloon.
Further credits include THE FALL OF THE SECOND REPUBLIC, an Abbey Theatre & Corn Exchange co-production; IN MY MIND’S EYE directed by Philip Crawford for the Lyric Theatre Belfast, THE NUMBERED directed by Pat Kiernan for Corcadorca Theatre Company; WHITE DEVIL at Shakespeare’s Globe; THE SEAGULL at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin, both directed by Annie Ryan for The Corn Exchange.
Anna’s screen credits include the role of The Lady Euphrosene opposite Tilda Swinton in Sally Potter’s ORLANDO, MOTHER’S DAY alongside Vicky McClure, directed by Fergus O’Brien, and EMMERDALE for ITV
Clare Barrett
Best known to Irish TV audiences as Nurse Bronagh in RTÉ's Fair City, Clare is also an award-winning stage actress who has worked for all the major theatre companies in Ireland. She recently appeared in Medicine, written and directed by internationally acclaimed playwright Enda Walsh and opposite Domhnall Gleeson and Aoife Duffin. Medicine was produced by Landmark productions and Galway International Arts Festival and appeared at the Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival and in St Ann’s Warehouse in New York in 2021 winning rave reviews and three Irish Times Theatre Award nominations in 2022. Her recent screen work includes Sisters (Peer Pressure/RTE/Merman) due for release in late 2022, Wild Mountain Thyme, and independent films The Last Right, Run and Jump and Dark Touch.
Other recent stage appearances include Livin Dred’s production of Trad– for which she received an Irish Times Theatre Award nomination for her performance as well as for her performance in Much Ado About Nothing for Rough Magic that same year. Other recent theatre includes the Abbey Theatre’s highly successful production of The Unmanageable Sisters as well as Angela’s Ashes based on the novel by Frank McCourt at the Bord Gais theatre and the Grand Opera House in Belfast. She has worked with a variety of theatre companies performing in Ireland and internationally including Druid Theatre, The Abbey Theatre, Rough Magic, HotForTheatre, Verdant Productions, Deeramber Productions, Barabbas, Lane Productions, The Performance Corporation, Tall Tales, The Corn Exchange, Pan-Pan, PBM, The Theatre Project, Monkeyshine, The Ark and TEAM.
Other theatre productions include: Minding Frankie (The Everyman/Gaiety Theatre), Centenary (RTE/Cois Ceim); Big Maggie (Druid), The Dead – The Opera (Performance Corporation-Project); The Train (Rough Magic-Lime Tree Theatre/Dublin Theatre Festival) for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the Irish Times Theatre Awards; DruidShakespeare (Druid Theatre Company-Lincoln Festival,New York/National tour), Moll (Verdant-Gaiety Theatre); Beautiful Dreamers (ANUproductions/PerformanceCorporation); I♥Alice♥I (International tour – Winner of Best Female Performer for this role in the Absolut Fringe Festival 2010); Bernarda’s House) (Dowager- Tiger Dublin Fringe 2014) for which she was nominated for Best Female Performer; Crude Mechanicals (Bewley’s Cafe Theatre/Theatre at the Savoy); Happiness (Bewley’s Cafe Theatre), Assassins (Rough Magic Seeds-Project Arts Centre); A Galway Girl (Bewleys Cafe Theatre/Galway Arts Festival).
Jamie Beamish
Jamie Beamish is a London-based Irish actor. His television credits include Channel 4's hit comedy series DERRY GIRLS, TNT’s WILL, Otto Bathurst’s HALO and the Netflix hit series BRIDGERTON. Film credits include Joe Wright’s PAN, ANNA KARENINA, HANNA, and EXTRA ORDINARY opposite Will Forte. Recent theatre credits include THE BEAUX STRATAGEM at the National (Dir Simon Godwin) and Rupert Gould's MERCHANT OF VENICE.
This year he starred in the Abbey Theatre production of PORTIA COUGHLAN starring Denise Gough, directed by Caroline Byrne.
Jamie can currently be seen in the Epix television series BILLY THE KID directed by Otto Bathurst as well as the third season of DERRY GIRLS.
