Casting
In conjunction with the introduction of film onto our curriculum we are also developing a casting agency service, which will operate as a point of contact for film and television production companies. Upon registration each student will have a free headshot taken which will then form part of their actors profile on our database.
We hope to make valuable contacts with the numerous casting directors working in Ireland and England and make them consider the talent that is available in Cork when they are casting their film, television and theatre productions. We will be guided in the development of this initiative by the filmmaker Padraig Trehy, who himself worked in casting in Dublin and London.
Padraig Trehy
Padraig Trehy has worked in the film industry in a variety of capacities for the past twenty years. He started his career as an assistant director on such films as The War of the Buttons. He then worked for casting directors John and Ros Hubbard in both their Dublin and London offices. During his time with Hubbards he worked on the casting of films such as Evita and Angela’s Ashes, television series such as Father Ted, Sharpe and Falling For A Dancer, and numerous commercials.
Padraig started his involvement with theatre at the age of 10 playing one of the children in The King and I (Cork Opera House). As student of the Montforts he was to make many appearances on the Opera House stage over the next 10 years in numerous pantomimes, Summer Revels and Salutes to Youth. He was also actively involved in UCC Dramat during his studies there, but has rarely appeared on stage since then, preferring to concentrate on writing, producing and direction. Having lived away from Cork during a period of the 1990s Padraig reactivated his interest in theatre upon his return to his native city, initially working as a producer on such shows as Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (for the Montforts), Philadelphia, Here I Come (Calvero) and Anything Goes (again for the Montforts). He has devised and directed a number of theatre works, most notably Howl (based on the poetry of Allen Ginsberg) and The Future (based on the work of Leonard Cohen).
Padraig has been writing and directing films since 2001, beginning with the short documentary The Headstones of Seamus Murphy, which won the Cork Film Centre Creative Documentary Award. He won the RTE / Cork Film Centre Short Script Award for My First Motion Picture which later won The Made in Cork Award at the Corona Cork Film Festival. Other films include The Kings of Cork City and Trying to Sell Your Soul When The Devil Won’t Listen (about the Cork punk band The Sultans of Ping). He is currently preparing his first feature film Shem The Penman Sings Again about the friendship between James Joyce and John McCormack.
Padraig lectures in film and contemporary visual culture in CIT Crawford College of Art & Design.
In conjunction with the introduction of film onto our curriculum we are also developing a casting agency service, which will operate as a point of contact for film and television production companies. Upon registration each student will have a free headshot taken which will then form part of their actors profile on our database.
We hope to make valuable contacts with the numerous casting directors working in Ireland and England and make them consider the talent that is available in Cork when they are casting their film, television and theatre productions. We will be guided in the development of this initiative by the filmmaker Padraig Trehy, who himself worked in casting in Dublin and London.
Padraig Trehy
Padraig Trehy has worked in the film industry in a variety of capacities for the past twenty years. He started his career as an assistant director on such films as The War of the Buttons. He then worked for casting directors John and Ros Hubbard in both their Dublin and London offices. During his time with Hubbards he worked on the casting of films such as Evita and Angela’s Ashes, television series such as Father Ted, Sharpe and Falling For A Dancer, and numerous commercials.
Padraig started his involvement with theatre at the age of 10 playing one of the children in The King and I (Cork Opera House). As student of the Montforts he was to make many appearances on the Opera House stage over the next 10 years in numerous pantomimes, Summer Revels and Salutes to Youth. He was also actively involved in UCC Dramat during his studies there, but has rarely appeared on stage since then, preferring to concentrate on writing, producing and direction. Having lived away from Cork during a period of the 1990s Padraig reactivated his interest in theatre upon his return to his native city, initially working as a producer on such shows as Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (for the Montforts), Philadelphia, Here I Come (Calvero) and Anything Goes (again for the Montforts). He has devised and directed a number of theatre works, most notably Howl (based on the poetry of Allen Ginsberg) and The Future (based on the work of Leonard Cohen).
Padraig has been writing and directing films since 2001, beginning with the short documentary The Headstones of Seamus Murphy, which won the Cork Film Centre Creative Documentary Award. He won the RTE / Cork Film Centre Short Script Award for My First Motion Picture which later won The Made in Cork Award at the Corona Cork Film Festival. Other films include The Kings of Cork City and Trying to Sell Your Soul When The Devil Won’t Listen (about the Cork punk band The Sultans of Ping). He is currently preparing his first feature film Shem The Penman Sings Again about the friendship between James Joyce and John McCormack.
Padraig lectures in film and contemporary visual culture in CIT Crawford College of Art & Design.