Kevin Scully wrote, directed and took the leading role in a play when he was in junior school. Just why the nuns allowed this to happen was never made clear - though some years later the 'star' realised his smoke-ring firing machine gun probably had not been seen at Anzac Cove in the Dardenelles.
These excesses were held in check as he progressed through school, only to spark into enthusiasm through some brilliant English teaching at high school. He inevitably joined in school drama productions.
He fulfilled his ambition to train as an actor when he successfully auditioned (the second time) for NIDA, where he was a member of the class of 1982.
It was there his play Up There On The Roof was given a reading by the actor/History of Theatre teacher, Peter Carmody.
He wrote two comic pieces, Soggy Fags and Who Did You Come As? for the Crosswinds Theatre-in-Community team, with whom he was engaged in his first professional capacity.
Kevin worked as a professional actor off and on for ten years, deciding during the tour of his first leading role to test a vocation to the priesthood. Ordained in 1993, he has not stopped writing or abandonned his interest in drama.
Two of his radio plays have been broadcast - Verbal Assaults by the ABC in Australia and A Grain Of Rice by RTE in Ireland.
Produced stage works include Asylum Thesarus, The Glint Of The Irish, There's One In Every Unit (which won the South London Theatre Centre Playwriting Competition), A Thousand Miles From Care, Music To Watch Girls By and Hard Up.
Details of most of these - as well as some unproduced scripts - are on doollee.com, the playwrights' database.
Kevin has also written the book and lyrics for two school musicals, The Donkey's Tale and The Flight Back From Egypt with the composer Graham Coatman.
One of his books, Imperfect Mirrors, looked at the parallels between theatrical performance and church services.
Kevin also has an acute interest in King Lear.
Please do get in touch with him if you have any queries.
These excesses were held in check as he progressed through school, only to spark into enthusiasm through some brilliant English teaching at high school. He inevitably joined in school drama productions.
He fulfilled his ambition to train as an actor when he successfully auditioned (the second time) for NIDA, where he was a member of the class of 1982.
It was there his play Up There On The Roof was given a reading by the actor/History of Theatre teacher, Peter Carmody.
He wrote two comic pieces, Soggy Fags and Who Did You Come As? for the Crosswinds Theatre-in-Community team, with whom he was engaged in his first professional capacity.
Kevin worked as a professional actor off and on for ten years, deciding during the tour of his first leading role to test a vocation to the priesthood. Ordained in 1993, he has not stopped writing or abandonned his interest in drama.
Two of his radio plays have been broadcast - Verbal Assaults by the ABC in Australia and A Grain Of Rice by RTE in Ireland.
Produced stage works include Asylum Thesarus, The Glint Of The Irish, There's One In Every Unit (which won the South London Theatre Centre Playwriting Competition), A Thousand Miles From Care, Music To Watch Girls By and Hard Up.
Details of most of these - as well as some unproduced scripts - are on doollee.com, the playwrights' database.
Kevin has also written the book and lyrics for two school musicals, The Donkey's Tale and The Flight Back From Egypt with the composer Graham Coatman.
One of his books, Imperfect Mirrors, looked at the parallels between theatrical performance and church services.
Kevin also has an acute interest in King Lear.
Please do get in touch with him if you have any queries.
