Barry Keane

This Connemara born actor started acting in his late teens and has done work with the Oranmore drama group "Bualadh Bos" including a very popular run of Lennox Robinson's "drama at Inish". He has also appeared in Conor McPherson's "The Weir" in the town hall studio.He is a fluent Irish speaker is comfortable working in both languages as was seen in the plays "Cathal Bui", "jack Fure" and "Díoltas an tSíol" all which went all the way to the national finals and won numerous awards. He has also appeared in TG4s Ros Na Run as the drug dealer/loan shark "Anto".Barry played the challenging part of "Shylock" in one shots production of Shakespeare's "The Merchant Of Venice". He appeared in the 2 highly successful runs of "Reservoir Dogs" His portrayal of the psychotic "Mr Blond" was described by one reviewer as "suitably understated and thoroughly scary". Playing two totally contradicting parts in a stage version of "Taxi Driver" was another challenge he enjoyed. He played the shady character "Tubal" in croí8s comedy "Merchant of Venice".He will soon(Nov 2012) be seen in Aghata Christies "The Unexpected Guest" as "Michael Starkwedder" and in TG4s Sceal.