Oisín
Kearney

Oisín Kearney is an Irish Writer and Director for stage and screen.

He co-wrote and directed the one-man play ‘My Left Nut’, produced as part of 'Show in a Bag' programme, an initiative run by the Dublin Fringe Festival and Fishamble. It was nominated for the Best Show Under One Hour at the Dublin Fringe Awards and won a Summerhall Lustrum Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. His co-author Michael Patrick acted in the piece. The pair have since adapted the play into a 3x30’ television series for BBC Three, which will be aired in late 2019/ early 2020.

Oisín and Michaels’ second play ‘The Alternative’ was the winner of Fishamble’s A Play for Ireland initiative. As part of its 30th year in 2018, Ireland’s only Olivier winning theatre company set out to find one big, ambitious play, that bursts with humanity, and tackles a subject about which the playwright feels passionate - A PLAY FOR IRELAND. It premieres at the Dublin Theatre Festival in September 2019 and tours 6 theatres around the country. Oisín is one of 16 writers involved in BBC writers room’s “Belfast Voices”, developing talent in Northern Ireland.

Oisín has worked with Willy Russel, re-contextualising two of his plays to Belfast for the Lyric Theatre - Educating Rita (2016) and Shirley Valentine (2019). Oisín has Assistant Directed the Lyric's productions Educating Rita and Good Vibrations is the Lyric's trainee Assistant Director. He has worked as Assistant Producer on Oscar-longlisted and Emmy-nominated documentary ELIÁN, Irish box-office smash hit 66 DAYS, and recently directed his first feature documentary BOJAYÁ: Caught In The Crossfire.

Oisin and Michael's TV adaptation of their play My Left Nut for Rollem Productions/BBC3 was released to great acclaim. They currently have several new projects in development for TV.