Moat Club One Act Festival starts tonight
Pat is a native of Cobh, County Cork and is a former Moat Club Member. As an actor with the Moat he won the award for Best Overall Performance at the One Act All Ireland Finals and also directed the group to One Act All Ireland Glory in 1989 with Stygium Cherubim, a play of his own writing. He has worked as an actor in Ireland for the past 21 years, performing with most of leading companies in the country including TEAM Educational Theatre Company, The Abbey Theatre, Druid, The Gaiety, Passion Machine and Fishamble: The New Play Company.
He began to write for the stage in 1997 and completed his first full length play The Nun’s Wood, which won a BBC Stewart Parker Trust Award ’98. Since then his plays have been performed in Dublin, New York, Edinburgh and Brighton.
The festival itself, which is part sponsored by Russborough Parklands & Gardens & Height Platforms, Naas, will see nine amateur drama groups from around the country competing over three nights in the Open (Significantly Experienced) and the Confined (Less Experienced) sections with the ultimate goal of each company being qualified for the DLI/ADCI All Ireland One Act Finals which will be hosted by Kilmuckridge Drama Group, in Kilmuckridge, Co Wexford from 7-9 December 2018.
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