Ian McElhinney

Ian has played in theatres throughout Ireland, the UK and North America. Theatre credits include A Woman of No Importance, The Interrogation of Ambrose Fogarty, The Plough and the Stars, The Silver Tassie, Observe the Sons 0/ Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey Theatre), The Recruiting Officer, Aristocrats, A Dolls House, Betrayal (Gate Theatre), Amphibians (RSC), Carthaginians (Hampstead); Pygmalion, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, An Ideal Husband, Waiting for Godot, (Lyric Theatre). He has recently returned from the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC with his one-man play The Green Shoot.

Television credits include Maisie Raine, Queer as Folk, Touch and Go, Hornblower, Wokenwell, Lift after Lift, Children 0/ the North, Hearts and Minds, Between the Lines 11, A Womans Guide to Adultery, Taggart, Syenden and Lovejoy. Film work includes Divorcing Jack, A Love Divided, The Boxer, Hamlet, Michael Collins, Small Faces, This Is the Sea, Blind Justice, The Grasscutter, Hidden Agenda, Fools of Fortune, Lamb, Anne Devlin and Angel.

Ian has directed Gold in the Streets and Now You’re Falling for Charabans, Under Napoleons Nose for Replay, Northern Star for MIT Oramashop, Christmas Eve Can Kill You in the Arts and the Lyon Theatres in Belfast. He has recently opened Ruby (a new play about the singer Ruby Murray) for Tinderbox Theatre Co.