AFLOAT

Ronan is a Writer, Actor and Director based in Dublin, Ireland.

He first began his career in the arts training as an Actor at The Gaiety School Of Acting from 2004 to 2006. Working as a professional actor Ronan took on roles in productions including The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s dream, Twelfth Night, and Agamemnon.

In 2007 Ronan moved to Paris to train at the acclaimed theatre school, Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq. Having graduated there, he established The Nth Degree Theatre company Paris. Ronan has also trained with Complicite Theatre, The Grotowski Institute Poland, Frantic Assembly London and in site specific Art at UCLA.

In 2014 Ronan played the role of ‘Pozzo’ in Smock Alley Theatre's 'Waiting for Godot' which went on a 3-city tour to Brazil in 2015.

In 2015, Ronan adapted Buster Keaton's film 'The
Navigator' for the stage which went on in Smock Alley Theatre.

In 2016 Ronan was commissioned to write the Gaiety School Of Acting's graduation play. It was a large-scale production showcasing 22 actors in a play called 'Proclamation' which looked at the health of the nation and was set in an A&E department 100 years after the Irish Proclamation was written.

Ronan currently works as a Physical Theatre tutor at The Gaiety School Of Acting, at the Blue Diamond Drama Academy-A drama school for adults with learning and at UCD Dublin on the Masters In Theatre programme.

Ronan has his own one man show 'The Words Are There' which was written and directed by him. It received 5 star reviews and toured both nationally and Internationally over 2 years. He will perform it at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019.

In 2017 Ronan Wrote and Directed his first professional short film 'Afloat' The film follows an Asylum Seeker over a day in Dublin City as she struggles to find closure from the trauma of her journey from Aleppo Syria to Dublin.

WRITING CREDITS.

“Afloat” (Nth Degree Productions)
“The Words Are There (Nth Degree)
"Two Of Clubs" (Nth Degree)
"Proclamation" @Smock Alley Theatre (Gaiety School Of Acting)
"The Navigator"(Icharus Theatre, A Stage adaptation of Buster Keaton's silent film).
"Midnight On Bridge Street" (A site specific radio play for the Abhann Ri Festival Kilkenny). "Kitchen Love" (A commission for Kilkenny Castle/Culture Night 2013).
"Belle Sur Metro" and "Garcon Demi" for (NTH Degree Paris)
"It's Been Too Long" (A commission for the Gaiety School of Acting's Graduation Showcase 2015).

DIRECTING CREDITS.

“Afloat” (Nth Degree)
“Two Of Clubs” (Nth Degree)
“The Words Are There” (Nth Degree)
"Proclamation" Smock Alley Theatre (Gaiety School of Acting)
"The Navigator" (Icharus Theatre/Smock Alley)
"Slender" (Reality: Check/Theatre Upstairs)
"Belle Sur Metro" (Nth Degree)
"Garcon Demi" (NTH Degree Theatre Paris).
"The Dead Woman's Son" (Maylin Productions)

TV Acting credits include: "The Clinic" and "Fair City" (RTE) Film Credits include: Neil Jordan's "Breakfast On Pluto.”