Born in Ireland in 1980, Eugene O’Hare is an actor, playwright, radio and screen writer. He moved to London when he was eighteen and after a brief time returning to work at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre he landed the role of Doalty in Brian Friel’s Translations at the Royal National Theatre in London. O’Hare has worked extensively in London theaters such as The Royal Court, Tricycle, Shakespeare’s Globe and in the West End. He was lauded by the late Sam Shepard for a masterful performance as Austin in Shepard’s seminal play “True West”. Shepard flew to the Glasgow Citizen’s Theatre in 2013 to see the production and was instrumental in securing its transfer to London’s Tricycle Theatre. It was the last major production before Sam Shepard’s death. O’Hare created the role of Magennis in Jez Butterworth’s hit play The Ferryman directed by Sam Mendes in 2017. His first American stage role was on Broadway playing Colm Meaney’s son in the Eugene O’Neill masterpiece A Moon for the Misbegotten. O’Hare later returned to New York to St Ann’s Warehouse to create the role of Pierre opposite Adrian Lester in Lolita Chakrabarti’s multi award-winning debut play Red Velvet. He is also a film and television actor and will play series regular Detective Quigley in the 2019 BBC/Starz series Dublin Murders adapted by Sarah Phelps from the bestselling crime novel series by Tana French. He recently created the role of series regular Eddie Lyons in Season 3 of Marcella (ITV/netflix). In 2017 O’Hare wrote the BBC short film The Music Room featuring the entire Ulster Orchestra. He has written several short stories for BBC Radio 4 including A World of One’s Own which was broadcast on Christmas Day 2015. He has also written for the National Theatre and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Two world premiers of his full length plays will open on the main stage of The Park Theatre in London in 2019. The first play The Weatherman will be directed by Alice Hamilton and will open for five weeks on 12th August 2019. It stars Alec Newman and Cyril Nri. The second play Sydney & the Old Girl directed by Phillip Breen and starring Miriam Margolyes and Mark Hadfield will open on the 30th October and run for five weeks. Both will be published by Bloomsbury. “Bosco”, his latest short story for BBC Radio 4 was narrated by Academy Award nominee Stephen Rea and was broadcast in June 2019. He is a member of Field Day Theatre company founded by Brian Friel. He lives in London.