SAOIRSE - Cast
Aidan Byrne
Aidan Byrne is a singer-songwriter and composer from Kilkenny.
He has composed additional music for "Tír na nÓg: A New Irish Musical" and "Shauna Carrick Wants a Dog." Additionally, Aidan served as the musical director for the debut of "Shauna Carrick Wants a Dog" at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2023.
He spent 2 years as a performer at Raglan Road in Disney World, Orlando. During his time there he performed as a soloist and as part of the band playing in the Irish Dance Show.
Aodh
Lesley Conroy
Lesley Conroy is an IFTA award nominated actor with 25 years’ experience in Theatre, Film & TV. She trained in the Samuel Beckett Centre Trinity College, Loose Canon Theatre Company, and Helena Walsh Studio. Her debut solo show Epiphany (an adaptation of James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’) had its world premiere this Bloomsday Festival.
Theatre credits: Volta – Macbeth. Bewley's Café Theatre - The Twenty Club, & A Christmas Visit. Decadent - The Mai & Eden. Fíbín -Tóraíocht. Abbey Theatre - Cúirt an Mheán Oíche among many others.TV & Film includes: Faithless, Harry Wild, Maxine, Bad Sisters, The Miracle Club, Holy Island, The Cured, Citizen Lane, Life's a Breeze, Mattie & Fair City.
She won the Jane Anne Rothwell award for emerging female talent from Cork (2021). Her monologue 'Cleaner' won Scripts Ireland Competition (2020). It was adapted under Screen Ireland’s Actor as Creator scheme & has screened internationally to critical acclaim.
Nuala
Ciara Cox
Ciara Cox is an actor and native Irish speaker from Connemara.
She received training at The Lir Academy on the Foundation Diploma in Acting and Theatre (2026). She has been involved in several stage productions with An Taibhdhearc, including Annie (2015), Hans Christian Andersen agus a Chairde (2016), Gilín Sneachta agus an Seachtar Scallywag (2017), and Tóraíocht an Yummy Mummy (2018).
Her television credits include Rós na Rún (2015–2026), Saol Ella (2023), An Póitín (2024), and the short film Grando (2024).
Saoirse
Juliette Crosbie
Juliette is a graduate of Gaiety School of Acting and a native of Louth. She recently made her Royal Shakespeare Company debut in All Is But Fantasy at The Other Place (RSC) Theatre includes critically acclaimed A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic), Last Orders At The Dockside and Me, Sara (The Abbey Theatre) and Circle of Friends (The Gaiety Theatre). Film includes Power Ballad, starring opposite Paul Rudd, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Báite (Danú Media). Other screen includes Borderline (ShinAWil) Harry Wild, How To Get To Heaven From Belfast and Don’t Go Where I Cant Find You (Best Actress, Jim Thrope FF, Nominated DIFF Discovery Award). She also performs as a concert soloist, frequently singing with The RTÉ Concert Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic, The Hallé and BBC NOW. Voiceover includes Rainbow Rangers (Nickelodeon TV), Zoonicorns (Toonz) Arnie & Barnie (Studio 100), and Maddie + Triggs (RTÉ), Flamingo Flamenco (Studio100).
Múinteoir Tara
Ursula Earley
Ursula Earley is a singer and actor from Tralee, County Kerry. She studied Musical Theatre at The Musical Theatre Academy London and Acting for Film and TV at Bow Street Dublin. She worked as a Lead Singer with AIDA cruises where she performed in lots of different shows, ranging from Cabaret to Rock, while travelling the globe. Ursula is very excited to be combining her love for performing and her love for Irish, in this musical with An Taibhdhearc.
Siobhán
Síofra Ní Éilí
Síofra Ní Éilí is an Irish speaking actor & sean nós singer from Co. Clare. She is a graduate of The Lir Academy (2024). Her theatre credits include Nell in Wild Swimming (Bewley's Cafe Theatre, dir. Alisha Finnerty), Mercy Munroe in Muicín (Lemonsoap Productions, dir. Jeda de Brí), Fred / Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol (Gate Theatre, dir. Claire O’Reilly), Ensemble in The Quiet Man (Loco & Reckless, dir. John Breen & Mikel Murfi), and Martha Ryan in The Sugar Wife (Abbey Theatre, dir. Annabelle Comyn).
Film credits include Orla in The Woman in Cabin 10 (Netflix, dir. Simon Stone), Gemma in Pull Hard (Grandads, dir. Douglas Reddan & Leah Moore) and Lily in Marnie (One Shot Film Festival, dir. Ellen Buckley).
Aoife
Elliot Nolan
Elliot Nolan is an actor and theatre-maker from County Kildare. He graduated from the BA (Hons) in Professional Acting programme at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in 2021. He is a member of Scaoilte Theatre, a collective creating bilingual theatre work. Recent credits include Anonn – The Other Side (Scene + Heard Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival and Lásta Festival, 2025), the rehearsed reading of Seift (Roscommon Arts Centre and Riverbank Arts Centre, 2024–25), and INFINITE MATERIAL ANALYSIS (Scene + Heard Festival, 2026). Screen work includes the role of Daire in the forthcoming short film Stickshift (COGGIA Productions).
Caoimhín
Evanne Kilgallon
Evanne Kilgallon is an actor and writer from the west of Ireland. She recently starred as Shelly in Small Town, Big Story (Sky Studios, created by Chris O’Dowd). Other screen credits include Meabh in Poitín (BlocTG4) and series regular Kate in Obituary (RTÉ/Netflix/Hulu). Theatre credits include Circle of Friends (Gaiety Theatre), The Twenty Club (Glass Mask Theatre/Bewleys), Bench Tales (Kilkenny Arts Festival) among others.
As a theatre-maker, Evanne wrote and performed her debut play AN LÁR (Glass Mask Theatre), which received both critical and audience acclaim, “Kilgallon’s bilingual approach is a masterstroke, An Lár confirming her as a serious talent in the making.”- The Arts Review. She followed this with her one-woman show Jester’s Privilege, excerpts of which were performed at Scene + Heard and on an Irish tour. Her latest work-in-progress TECHNOPOETICA, an experimental spoken word and techno performance was recently performed at Electric Picnic.
A fluent Irish speaker, Evanne’s writing often explores the female experience, Irish mythology, bilingualism, and the use of dark humour to unravel difficult subjects.
Róisín
Callum Maxwell
Callum is an actor and writer from Co. Meath. He graduated from the Gaiety School - The National Theatre School of Ireland in 2021. He recently played Bob Newby in Stranger Things: The First Shadow on the West End (SFP/Netflix). Other theatre credits include; Peter Pan (Gate Theatre), Philadelphia Here I Come! (Cork Opera House), Cloudspotter (Allergy Theatre), Oh, Brother! (Ragged Ruin) and Love Me Do (Cavan Arts Festival). Screen credits include; LYNLEY S2 (BBC), Finnegans Foursome (Wild Atlantic Pictures), AR SNÁMH (Sticky Tape Productions) and PANTO! (Deadly Films/Screen Ireland).
Séamus
Colm Mac Gearailt
Colm Mac Gearailt is an actor, poet, and historian from Corca Dhuibhne, County Kerry. He trained at the Gaiety School of Acting (2013) and, more recently, as part of the Actors' Room Advanced Screen Acting & Casting Programme (2025) with Louise Kiely Casting and Darren and Colin Thornton. He spent five years on the television series Ros na Rún in the role of ‘Briain McDonagh’ (2017-23; 225 episodes), and also appeared in the film Báite (Cine4; 2025). He was a presenter on the programme Cois Siúire (TG4, 2026; 4 episodes). He is currently developing new plays with the all-Irish-language theatre company ‘Na Cleasaithe’, which was founded in 2025. He was named the first ‘Poet in Residence’ at An Díseart, An Daingean, 2021–22. His work has been performed at slams and festivals around the country, including Other Voices, Electric Picnic, the International Festival of Literature Dublin, and Féile Liú Lúnasa in Belfast, where he won first place in the festival’s Poetry Slam competition. He was awarded a doctorate by Trinity College Dublin in 2019.
Liam