Stephen Brennan
Actor

Stephen was a member of the Abbey Theatre company from 1975, playing a wide variety of roles including Joe Dowling's production of A Life (Irish Times Awards Best Supporting Actor), and was the Abbey's first Hamlet in 1983. He spent a year at the Royal National Theatre in London in 1984, and since then has done a large body of work at the Gate Theatre Dublin, most recently as Mr Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Port Authority, The Threepenny Opera, Bedroom Farce, My Cousin Rachel, A Woman of No Importance, Hay Fever, Jane Eyre, and Death of a Salesman. Stephen played Garry Essendine in Present Laughter (which also transferred to Spoleto Festival, Charleston), The Real Thing, Private Lives, Waiting for Godot (National Tour and worldwide), Old Times, The Pinter Landscape (Lincoln Centre, New York), Higgins in Pygmalion, Serge in Art, and title roles in Tartuffe and Cyrano de Bergerac. Leading parts in Plaza Suite & Phaedra (Rough Magic); Blackbird (Landmark Productions); The Shaughraun (Albery Theatre, London); The Life of Galileo (Project); The Rocky Horror Show, The Taming of the Shrew and Oedipus at the Gaiety. Recent appearances include Captain Boyle in Joe Dowling’s production of Juno and the Paycock (Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis), Sorin in The Seagull (Dublin Festival), John Bosco in The Chastitute (Gaiety, Dublin), The Captain in Woyzeck in Winter (Galway Festival/Barbican) and Hornby in A Kind of Alaska (Pinter Festival, Lincoln Centre).
 
Film / Television includes The Tudors; Eat the Peach; The General; The Boys from Clare; A Piece of Monologue; Waiting for Godot; Twice Shy; El Cid; Ballykissangel; Father Ted; Bachelor’s Walk. 

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Stephen plays Croak in Words and Music on 30 June 2018