My Second Self - Cast Profiles
Here's a little about each of our actors;
GEOFF O'KEEFFE - "PAUL"
Geoff’s recent credits as a director include, Macbeth; Santa’s Cracking Christmas Adventure; Wilde about Williams: An Evening of short work; Sharon’s Grave; A Christmas Carol and Saveus Maveus and the Santa Claus Rescue, all for Mill Theatre Productions; Assistant Director and Set Designer, Tarry Flynn, Mill Theatre Productions; Lost Weekend at The Axis Theatre. His work as an actor includes; Theatre: David/Divina in Aul’ Divina and Me/I for Biscuits for Breakfast Theatre Company; James in Dinner for One for Offaly
Drama Project; Mikey inThe Highest House on the Mountain for Tavistock Arts Theatre Company at Smock Alley Theatre; Ms. Kitty in Billy Redden for IYT at The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, 2010, where he received the Michael Mc Liammoir Award for Best Male Actor; Michael in SPARC Productions' A Whistle in the Dark; Richard Greatham in Hayfever for Shift Theatre Company.
Credits as a writer: Saveus Maveus and the Santa Claus Rescue and Santa’s Cracking Christmas Adventure, both produced for Mill Productions Radio: Hooked!; Beyond the Forest; The Undertakers - all by Gillian Grattan for KCLR TV: Blackmarkets Ireland TV3; Idir Mná,TG4;The Only Viking in the Village, RTE. Film: The title role in Franky’s Revolution for Try Hard Productions; Ug Murhy/Chuck Jackson in the web series Director Hector: The Making of Action Traction; Immigration Officer in The Waitress for Vico Films; The Oracle in A Fistful of Diamonds for It’s not the Ritz productions.
Geoff holds an MA in Theatre Studies from DCU and in 2010 completed further
training at The Focus Theatre Actor’s Studio. He has facilitated a number of
acting workshops for drama groups. He is a member of the Association of Drama
Adjudicators and its current PRO.
Drama Project; Mikey inThe Highest House on the Mountain for Tavistock Arts Theatre Company at Smock Alley Theatre; Ms. Kitty in Billy Redden for IYT at The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, 2010, where he received the Michael Mc Liammoir Award for Best Male Actor; Michael in SPARC Productions' A Whistle in the Dark; Richard Greatham in Hayfever for Shift Theatre Company.
Credits as a writer: Saveus Maveus and the Santa Claus Rescue and Santa’s Cracking Christmas Adventure, both produced for Mill Productions Radio: Hooked!; Beyond the Forest; The Undertakers - all by Gillian Grattan for KCLR TV: Blackmarkets Ireland TV3; Idir Mná,TG4;The Only Viking in the Village, RTE. Film: The title role in Franky’s Revolution for Try Hard Productions; Ug Murhy/Chuck Jackson in the web series Director Hector: The Making of Action Traction; Immigration Officer in The Waitress for Vico Films; The Oracle in A Fistful of Diamonds for It’s not the Ritz productions.
Geoff holds an MA in Theatre Studies from DCU and in 2010 completed further
training at The Focus Theatre Actor’s Studio. He has facilitated a number of
acting workshops for drama groups. He is a member of the Association of Drama
Adjudicators and its current PRO.
STEVEN MASTERSON - "LEYTON"
Steven trained as an actor with Bull Alley Theatre Company. Since graduating in 2011, Steven has played television roles in “Behind Bars” for TV3 and “Idir Mna” for TG4. Stage work includes the lead role of Charlie in No Tears Productions’ “Opportunity Knocks” and three nationwide tours with Tallisman Theatre Company. He played Mikey in KettleDrum Theatre Company’s production of “Wheels – A Comic Strip Tale”, a two-hander that played the Galway Fringe Festival in July 2012.
Other theatre highlights include playing Richard in “Richard III” in Vienna, Austria, Christian Faber in Noel Coward’s “The Astonished Heart”, Doug Warren in “Crop Circles”, a play he devised and
wrote with five other actors in 2010 and was performed at the Civic Theatre, Tallaght. As a director, Steven has directed musical productions of “Oliver!” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” for
Clones Theatre Group, County Monaghan. Most recently he directed their Christmas pantomime, “Cinderella”. Steven has worked as a freelance drama facilitator around Dublin for the past five years and has produced and directed eleven variety shows with his own stage school in his hometown of Clones, Co. Monaghan. He made his professional directorial debut with “Bound” by Derek Masterson which enjoyed a sold out run at Dublin’s New Theatre in March 2012 and went on to tour many of Dublins top theatres last Autumn. He was delighted to be invited back to direct “A Nice Bed To Die In” and looks forward to treading the boards once again in No Tears next show “The Second Self” which will play the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in May of this year.
Other theatre highlights include playing Richard in “Richard III” in Vienna, Austria, Christian Faber in Noel Coward’s “The Astonished Heart”, Doug Warren in “Crop Circles”, a play he devised and
wrote with five other actors in 2010 and was performed at the Civic Theatre, Tallaght. As a director, Steven has directed musical productions of “Oliver!” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” for
Clones Theatre Group, County Monaghan. Most recently he directed their Christmas pantomime, “Cinderella”. Steven has worked as a freelance drama facilitator around Dublin for the past five years and has produced and directed eleven variety shows with his own stage school in his hometown of Clones, Co. Monaghan. He made his professional directorial debut with “Bound” by Derek Masterson which enjoyed a sold out run at Dublin’s New Theatre in March 2012 and went on to tour many of Dublins top theatres last Autumn. He was delighted to be invited back to direct “A Nice Bed To Die In” and looks forward to treading the boards once again in No Tears next show “The Second Self” which will play the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in May of this year.
