Diarmuid De Faoite Is an Actor, Writer, Lecturer and Drama Therapist

Mayo County Council Arts Office is delighted to announce Diarmuid de Faoite as Mayo County Council Writer in Residence 2014. Diarmuid de Faoite is an actor, writer, lecturer and drama therapist. Theatre includes Doubt, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, The Weir, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Translations (Decadent); The Tinker’s Wedding, The Well of the Saints (Druid); Pádraic Ó Conaire, Paris Texas, Herman, Punch and Judy, The Fairgreen Slaughterhouse (POC productions); The Seagull (Cornerstone); Play, Catastrophe (Sick-L); Má Tá Bréag Ann… (The Abbey); The Rose Tattoo, The Year of the Hiker, An Solas Dearg, Gaeilgeoir Deireannach Charna (An Taibhdhearc); Yerma, The Puppet Show of Don Cristobal, Sea Mission, The Education of Skinny Spew (Na Fánaithe); Fear an Tae, Tine Chnámh (Amharclann de hÍde). Television includes Corp+Anam, Pádraic Ó Conaire, Ros na Rún, The Galway Races (TG4); Grace in America, House in Jerusalem, The Morbegs, Ecu, Ecu!, Eureka!, Thou Shalt Not Kill, Robert Emmet, Dance Off (RTE); Machair (STV); Custer’s Last Stand Up (BBC); The Fisherman (CartoonbrewTV); Film work includes Kings, 10 Steps, Run and Jump and The Dublin Mystic. Diarmuid has received several awards with his own company, POC productions, as well as the Stewart Parker Trust/BBC NI Best Script Award for his Pádraic Ó Conaire stage play, the Celtic Media Festival Best Feature Documentary Award for the drama documentary Pádraic Ó Conaire -an Fear, and the Irish Language Media Best Actor Award for his role in Corp+Anam. His new collection of mythological tales, Eachtraí Thuatha Dé Danann in Éirinn, was joint winner in the new writing section of An tOireachtas, 2013, and Rogha Scéalta, a collection of Ó Conaire stories edited by Diarmuid was shortlisted for Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin, 2008. Diarmuid has written sketches, drama and drama documentaries for RTE and TG4 as well as translating various works. His translation of Scothscéalta for Cló Iar Chonnachta is due for publication this year. Diarmuid recently turned to poetry with poems appearing in The Galway Review and Feasta. He lectures part-time in dramatherapy in NUI, Maynooth and in aspects of performance and creative writing in NUI, Galway.