Myles Breen
Acting
Biography
Myles Breen is the best known Panto performer in Ireland. A local of Limerick City, At a young age Breen was exposed to the arts by his mother, Bridie, who had a love of theatre, music and dancing and who encouraged his creativity. Having completed a degree in Commerce in University College Cork, Breen decided acting was the route he wanted to take. With great success in his professional life Myles Breen moved back to Limerick after spending 13 years living and working in Dublin. On returning to Limerick he then went one step further as Bottom Dog Theatre Company was set up in late 2008 with Liam O’Brien, Mike Burke and Mike Finn. The company has been nominated for several national awards, including two Irish Times Theatre Awards. On top of everything else this incredible man also works with the Daughters of Charity and Limerick Youth Theatre. Myles Breen curated alongside Katarína Mojžišová and acted as mentor as part of a collaboration project between Daughters of Charity (DOC) and Limerick Youth Theatre (LYT) called The Creative Show presents Channel Surfing. The project allowed service users of DOC interested in theatre and dance to experience the process of auditions, rehearsals, performing and production. Myles Breen has written numerous plays such as ‘The Bachelor of Kilkish’, an excellent play which ran for three nights in the Lime Tree Theatre and also in Kilmallock and Kilkee. In 2014 Myles Breen was honoured with the Limerick Person of the Month award for his outstanding contribution to the arts in the Mid-West region. In 2015 he was awarded Best Actor at Origins First Irish Festival, where he showcased his one man play ‘Language Unbecoming A Lady’.
Known For
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.
Hidden Assets
The day-to-day dramas of the community who live and work in the fictional north Dublin suburb of Carrigstown.
Fair City
details the bizarre goings-on in a fictitious Irish village called Killinaskully located in the hills of Ireland
Killinaskully
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Northanger Abbey
A Garda from a small rural village in Ireland, moves to Dublin City and must adjust to life as a big-time Garda, with hilarious results.
Mattie
Gritty Irish-language drama chronicling the difficult professional and intense personal life of Cathal Mac Iarnáin, a tenacious TV crime reporter who is obsessed with pursuing the story behind the story. But as single-minded as he is about uncovering the truth, he is often too busy chasing stories to notice that the world of crime hits closer to home every day.
Corp + Anam
Wesley, an awkward, plant-enthused community radio host has his daily life and radio show documented by a youth film group. We watch as his simple, lonely life unfolds over the course of this mocumentary, with some appearances from family and friends (questionable) sprinkled throughout. However, beyond the laughs and heart-wrenching moments, a somewhat darker truth of Wesley's life reveals itself in the film's final act.
Through The Grapevine
Phil Kelly (played by William Heffernan) is the anti-hero; a restless teenager imbued with natural hurling ability and a strong aversion to studying. The location is not fictitious but instead it’s the very real Fermoy in County Cork which is a welcome touch. Like much of 1980s smalltown Ireland it’s a claustrophobic place that drives people away but inexplicably retains a strange sort of hold on them. The latter is exemplified by Gina Moxley’s character, the tempestuous Mary Hartnett who has returned after a stint in London. The other members of their gang are languid Martin (Vincent Murphy), uptight Willy, and mousey Rosie who carries a torch for Phil.
Clash of the Ash
A silent short comedy, made as part of the Limerick Youth Theatre's "The Creative Show 2024" theatre event, performed in the Belltable.
Silent Movie
Limerick Youth Theatre presents "Mission Improbale" a short film spoof of the "Mission Impossible" trailers made as part of the Creative Show 2024.
Mission Improbable
Six friends plan to meet-up for a few pints in Flannery’s bar-but which Flannery’s were they talking about?
The 5 Flannery’s
Myles Breen wrote Language UnBecoming A Lady and, as Bobby, a gay man, he performs it solo, aided only by the songs of the divas Bobby adores. Language UnBecoming A Lady is both camp and very real and earthy. It’s a measure of the writing and Myles Breen’s performance – in particular, how he slips in and out of high camp and then into a more grounded, concrete self in order to distil the complexity of Bobby – that the play cuts the right balance between sentimentality and artistry. It not only tells the tale of a gay man’s progress into maturity but we also get a touching historical journey through the Ireland of the last 30 years and how our perspective and humanity has changed for the better." - Irish Theatre Magazine