Cormac McDonagh

Cormac is from Rush, Co. Dublin and it is there at the Millbank Theatre where he began acting on stage from early childhood. He graduated from the National Film School at IADT where he wrote and directed short drama 'It Has To Be Done' and produced award-winning Sci-fi short 'Area 51' as well as working as 1st AD on numerous other short films. Cormac was successful in his very first professional audition when he featured in an insurance commercial, directed by future Acadamy Award-nominated director Lenny Abrahamson (Room). Even more impressive was his professional stage debut in 2007, when he led a cast of over 30 in the title role of Riddley Walker, a stage adaptation of the cult sci-fi novel by Russell Hoban. It is a part so demanding and a production so vast it has only ever been produced a handful of times worldwide since the 1980s. But Cormac assured his status as a leading man, dazzling audiences in the Red Kettle production under a Big Top in Co. Waterford. Onlookers included J