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Free Workshops
Ferdia MacAnna – Workshop will take place on Thursday September 13 th
in the Dargan Suite at 5pm
Ferdia Mac Anna was born in Dublin in 1955. He has worked as a television
producer/director, journalist, magazine editor, screenwriter and scriptwriter. For
some years he toured Ireland as lead singer and songwriter with first Rocky De
Valera and the Gravediggers (1977-79) and latterly, The Rhythm Kings (1980-83).
He was producer and script editor on the acclaimed award-winning BBC/RTE
children’s drama series, ‘Custer’s Last Stand-Up’ (2000-2002) which won a BAFTA
for best drama series. He has written the plays ‘Big Mom’ (Project Arts Centre)
and ‘The Last of Johnny Synge’ as well as three novels, ‘The Last of the High
Kings’ (made into a Hollywood movie starring Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Rea and
Christina Ricci in 1996), ‘The Ship Inspector’ (screenplay in development) and
‘Cartoon City’.
His memoir, ‘The Rocky Years’ (Hodder Headline, 2006) is in development for a TV drama series. He has taught at
various colleges and institutions, including DCU, NUI Maynooth and IADT where he currently lectures in
Screenwriting and TV and Radio Broadcasting. His works as a freelance TV producer/director and writer on
Dramas, Sitcoms, Documentaries, and Soaps. He has written one poem.
Ferdia’s workshop is entitled ‘The Fucking Mad Thing About Character Stereotypes’.
Vinny Murphy – Workshop will take place on Friday September 14 th
in the Laurel Suite at 11am
Vinny Murphy has worked as a Director, Writer, Actor and Composer
for Film, Television and Theatre. He directed and co-wrote the
feature film Accelerator, which won several awards internationally
and earned him the U.I.P. Best Director prize. He has directed ten
short fiction films ( five of which he also wrote) as well as various
other formats, has acted in more than forty films and television
programs and has composed music for several films, the latest being
the feature “the Disturbed”.
He currently teaches screen writing on the M.A. Course at the National Film School, D.L.I.A.D.T., screen acting
on the Degree Course at D.I.T. Rathmines, directing with filmbase and all of the above with the Digital Skills
Academy at the Digital Hub. He also teaches through his own company the Screen Project -
http://www.facebook.com/thescreenproject.dublin
Vinny’s workshop is “a fast (possibly manic!) look at the process of film making from the point of view of the
writer and the director. This is a hands-on workshop, scenes will be written, shot and viewed. There will also be
a fair bit of talk, questions being encouraged."
Ciaran Creagh – Workshop will take place on Saturday
September 15 th in the Laurel Suite at 11am
Irish playwright and screenwriter Ciaran Creagh rose to
attention in the film industry last year when his
screenplay ‘Parked’ was made into a cinema-released
feature film starring Colm Meaney (The Snapper) and
directed by Darragh Byrne. Picking up numerous awards
internationally, ‘Parked’ came after Creagh had three of
his plays publicly performed.
Ciarans program is entitled 'Characters, their actions and
how to get them to stop talking'. The main thrust of the
program is character development and making them
real and not ruining them by endless dialogue.